Land in Landscapes circum Landnám: an Integrated Study of Settlements in Reykholtsdalur, Iceland

• Published in: Journal of the North Atlantic
• Main Authors: Sveinbjarnardottir, Gudrun, Simpson, Ian, Thomson, Amanda M
• Other Authors: University College London, Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Stirling, orcid:0000-0003-2447-7877
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Humboldt Field Research Institute, Eagle Hill Foundation 2008
• Subjects: Reykholt; Iceland
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1893/522; https://doi.org/10.3721/070420; http://www.bioone.org/perlserv/?request=get-archive&issn=1935-1933; http://dspace.stir.ac.uk/bitstream/1893/522/1/Sveinbjar-J0NA.pdf

The initial settlement of Iceland in the ninth and tenth centuries AD was based on animal husbandry, with an emphasis on dairy cattle and sheep. For this activity, land resources that offered a range of grazing and fodder production opportunities were required to sustain farmsteads. In this paper th...