REYKJAVIK
Reykjavik was
the first place in Iceland
to be intentionally settled. The first settler, Ingolfur Arnarson, tossed his
high-seat pillars overboard in 874 and built his farm where they washed ashore,
between the small lake Tjornin
and the sea. He called this place ‘Reykjavik’
or ‘Smoky Bay’,
after the steam rising from the earth.
