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GardarSvavarsson war zwar nicht der erste Seefahrer, der die Insel sichtete (siehe dazu Geschichte Islands), jedoch der Erste, der das Land um 875 systematisch suchte und erforschte.
Erklärung des Begriff GardarSvavarsson und dessen Bedeutung wurde zuletzt am 8.2.2006 aktualisiert (Glossar Lexikon Enzyklopädie).
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Iceland Tour -- Húsavík(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The Viking, Gardar Svávarsson, sailed northward from Sweden late in the ninth century to find and settle new territory.
Hence the town’s name, which loosely translated means "the inlet where the houses stood".
Gardar is then reputed to have returned to Norway, boasting the island’s beauty and natural wealth.
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Nordic men finding Iceland.(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Gardar stayed one winter in the land and built a shed (hut) for himself and his crew.
When it was spring, Garðar decided to sail away from the island, but before he did a member of his crew, a man called "Nattfari", disappeared and with him a slave and a female slave.
Gardar sailed to Norway, but he was very infatuated of this new country, witch was named after him and called "Gardarsholmur".
tells that it was GardarSvavarsson, a Swede with estates in Denmark, who, first of the vikings, discovered and explored Iceland, having been driven there by wind and storm after a voyage to the Hebrides.
But it was not much later that the Norwegian Naddod, sailing with his company to the Faroe, was also storm-driven upon Iceland; he gave the country the name of Snowland, and when at last he was safely back in Norway he had much to say in praise of it.
He deplored, beyond a doubt, the loss to his own kingdom of so many members of the aristocracy with their retinues, and he attempted to stop the wholesale emigration to Iceland that was draining Norway; but his decree of prohibition was soon altered into a demand for a tax from all who journeyed thither.
Garðarshólmi will be dedicated to the Swedish explorer Garðar Svavarsson and his travel companion Náttfari which sailed to Iceland in 870 AD.
Among the subjects displayed are; family life, household, diet, women in a mans world, slavery, religion, runes, handicrafts, life onboard when sailing and the reasons for the exploration of the Nordic men.
The ideas is to display this story on a timeline and ad known events from the world history to the line to make it easier for visitors to identify where on in time they are.
The first of the Norse-folk to pay Iceland a visit was the Swede Naddoddur, who washed up somewhere on the east coast, took a quick look around and promptly named the place Snæland (Snow Land) through a lack of other identifying features.
He was soon followed by Garðar Svavarsson, who decamped with his crew on the north coast for a full winter, and in 860 by a Norwegian farmer who landed on the iceberg-decorated west coast and decided a more fitting name for the place was Ísland (Ice Land).
He thus set up house at a spot adjacent to a set of steam-gushing thermal springs, which he named Reykjavík (Smoky Bay), and local industry began when he planted a hayfield in what eventually became the town square.
Húsavík has been an important seaport and trading town for Iceland, dating back to the first settlement.
Húsavík's first inhabitant is believed to have been a Swedish Viking named Garðar Svavarsson.
According to Landnáma, one of the country's oldest written documents, he sailed around Iceland in 870 A.D., discovering that it was an island and named it Garðarshólmi.
Husavik has the distinction of being the first place in Iceland ever to be built in.
before the permanent settlement, Swedish Viking explorer GardarSvavarsson sailed around the then uninhabited (and unnamed) Iceland, proving it is an island.
He wintered in the north, in quarters he had built in the "Bay of Houses".
He circumvented Iceland and called it Gardarsholm (Island of Gardar, what else?).
When he reached Skjálfandi Bay, he put Náttfari, one of his crew members and a slave woman in a boat which landed at place that would be called Náttfaravik (Nattafari's Cove) Here, the happy newlyweds set up home.
Gardar on the other hand, lay claim to the other side of the bay where he decided to set up his own little house cove called Húsavík (Hús = House, Vík = Cove).
Men who dared to venture into the most remote and inhospitable places on Earth.
The Heroes who helped to change for ever our perception of the planet: Colaeus, Himilco, Pytheas, GardarSvavarsson, Al-Idrisi, Alexander the Great, Zhang Qian, Eudoxus, Marco Polo, Ibn Battuta, Nicolo de Conti, Vasco da Gama, Jean Francois de Galaup, Comte de La Pérouse, William Palgrave and Nils Nordenskiöld.
With the support and encouragement of experienced mothers, you can make sure it's a wonderful life-changing experience
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Apparently finding the island barren and discouraged by harsh climate at the time, Naddodur abandoned the plan to explore the island and returned to Faroes Islands.
Explorer Garðar Svavarsson navigated around the island and encountered Celtic settlements in Grete Bay in 852 AD.
Soon after, seafaring Vikings began their attacks and raided the shores of Fyksland.
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Iceland then became a better place for these people to settle.
GardarSvavarsson was the first Scandinavian to circumnavigate Iceland in the year 860 (Wahlgren 68).
Following close behind, other Vikings came to the island.
Straight Dope Staff Report: Shouldn't Greenland be known as Iceland and vice versa?(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
He gave the island its fitting second name, Snæland ("snow land") because so much snow fell on the mountains.
Not long after, an ever-so-humble Swede named Garðar Svavarsson visited, and he gave the island its third name, Garðarshólmur ("Garðar's little island").
Iceland got its modern name from another visitor, the Norwegian Viking Flóki Vilgerðarson.
Dori Gisla - Projects - Gardarsstofa in Husavik(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
A design for an exhibition of viking voyage and northern exploration.
The project is centered around the first settlers in Husavik, especially GardarSvavarsson, Sweede that was the first to sail around Iceland determining that it is an Island.
The project is to use a lot of interactivity as well as operating in conjunction with opportunities for sailing in wooden boats around the Skjalfandafloi fjord, whale watching etc.
