How did the Vikings Discover Iceland?

Iceland's connections to Scandinavia are thanks to its settlement by Norsemen, mostly from Norway - but how did they get there in the first place, after all, it's not exactly the corner. In this video I will explore the first Norsemen (and one Swede) who ventured across the North Atlantic and either purposefully or, in most cases, accidentally, came across the land we now call Iceland.

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Sneaky Snitch - Kevin MacLeod
Teller of Tales - Kevin MacLeod
Shores of Avalon - Kevin MacLeod
Lost Frontier - Kevin MacLeod
Fiddles McGinty - Kevin MacLeod
Eastern Thought - Kevin MacLeod
Echoes of Time - Kevin MacLeod
Mountain Emperor - Kevin MacLeod
Living Voyage - Kevin MacLeod
Living - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Alternate History - Holfix
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Up and Away - Holfix
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Mystery - Holfix
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All images are from the Public Domain of Wikimedia Commons and Pixabay.

How Vikings Names Work:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73gqG...

Viking Raids - History Visualised:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_b3pp...

The Great Heathen Army - History Visualised:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWMXv...

Norse and Anglo-Saxon Paganism:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1jPj...

A Guide to Dark Age Irish Politics:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akWnk...

A Guide to Dark Age British Politics:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHNdQ...

Who Were the Anglo-Saxons?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bP1eX...

Old English:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kw6dI...

Anglo-Saxon Shields:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXIzd...

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