Claim: Although Iceland was discovered in 860, it was not until 874 that it would have its first permanent Nordic settler in the person of Ingólfr Arnarson, and not until 930 that the first Icelandic Commonwealth is founded with the establishment of the Icelandic Parliament.
Evidence: At some time around 860, a storm pushed his ship far to the north until he reached the eastern coast of Iceland. Landnámabók claims that the first Norseman to rest his feet on Icelandic soil was a viking by the name of Naddoddr. Written sources consider the age of settlement in Iceland to have begun with settlement by Ingólfr Arnarson around 874, for he was the first to sail to Iceland with the purpose of settling the land. Ari Thorgilsson claims in Íslendingabók that the country had been "fully settled" by 930.