Harbour

The harbour, which is right by the main city center in Reykavik, is quite an impressive sight. Aside from the gorgeous landscape, there are a few monuments to be seen, the most striking being a skeletal Viking ship.

It’s suspected that the main catalyst for the Viking movement to Iceland was overpopulation in Western Norway, where polygamy led to an excess of male heirs and too little land to go around. The division of land into even smaller plots caused young men to migrate abroad to seek their own fortunes.