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factors, such as a shortage of arable land in Scandinavia. Unlike Great Britain and Ireland, Iceland was unsettled land and could be claimed without conflict with existing inhabitants.

On the basis of [[Íslendingabók]] by Ari Þorgilsson, and [[Landnámabók]], histories dating from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries and providing a wealth of detail about the settlement,

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