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After re-watching season 12, I think it might be the best, and season 13 the worst...
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So, I am from Iceland. Let me crack some eggs of wisdom.
In the past few years (5 years) it has pretty much been proven that Iceland was inhabited, most likely temporarily, by Irish Catholic Monks before the vikings. They have found some proof that Irish monks before 874 (when Iceland was supposedly settled by Ingólfur Arnarson) lived in caves in Iceland. The logic is that figures of the cross ✝ and fecal collections date from before 874, which is the formal date for settlement for Iceland. In Iceland the Monks were called Papar, and there is even an island called papey:
https://www.google.com/search?q=papey&oq=papey&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l5.836j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
This has still been met with some criticisms and not been definitively proven, the caves in southern Iceland that they supposedly lived in are man made! Here is a news report about it in Icelandic:
https://www.mbl.is/frettir/innlent/2017/02/10/ogerlegt_ad_akvarda_aldurinn/
They are basically saying it is very difficult to determine when exactly these caves were made. But they are not! Natural, they were man made. It would be considered shameful to live in a cave as a viking, or that is my understanding. And a cave with a cross marking inside it... no way that was a viking.
When I watched the 2nd to last episode, I knew that Flóki would wind a cross in the cave. Because I believe that Icleand was discovered be these noble, peaceful Irish Catholic Monks before the vikings claimed it.
PS. Floki is based on Hrafna-Flóki, the man that supposedly named Iceland. You can read about him here, he existed and this information is documented in the Sagas:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hrafna-Fl%C3%B3ki_Vilger%C3%B0arson
Vikings vs. native americans. It'll be worth it haha
I hope the Iceland plot will become a big part of the series. It's perhaps been a bit uneventful but I think the director is going somewhere. Here's is my theory.
Flóki is sacrificed to the gods and some of the initial settlers sail back to Norway. People hear of Flóki's death and this "land of the gods". One of the people that hears of this land is Erik the Red, who gets exiled from Norway. He sails to Iceland where he again becomes exiled forcing him to sail further west to Greenland where he establishes a settlement. Someone that was trying to sail to Greenland got blown of course and accidentally stumbled upon a great land (Canada) before arriving to Greenland. Erik the Red's son, Leif Erikson decides to sail to this land (perhaps in desperation because life in Greenland was so tough, there were essentially no trees or resources) and creates a short term settlement in Newfoundland (which he calls Vínland). Leif then sails back to Greenland (armed with resources) and inspires another viking Thorfinn Karlsefni to form a permanent settlement in Vinland. Thorfinn then has battles with Native Americans, as documented in Greenland Saga.
I think it would be epic. But we shall wait and see, perhaps the Iceland story just fades out and the series will end with the death of Ivar. But I hope they go to America.
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