ABSTRACT
Iceland is an island of 103,000 square kilometres (39,700 square miles) situated in the north Atlantic Ocean, between Norway and Greenland. The island is believed to have been uninhabited until the ninth Century when Norse Viking outlaws began to settle there. They brought with them concubines and slaves captured in the British Isles, most of them in Ireland, who later intermingled with the Norse settlers. The island was considered ‘fully settled’ by the mid-tenth Century.
