Talk:Færeyinga saga

Grímur Kamban
Grímur Kamban was not the first man on the Faero Ilands (neither do the Færeyinga Saga state that), he was the first viking on the ilands, that is what landnam means. At that point Irish monks were living on the ilands. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.236.66.226 (talk) 06:18, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

You are wrong about the monks. The monks are a myth. --Mingur (talk) 12:26, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

its not a myth,pollen analysis indicates that in 625 oats and barley were grown on mykines, probbably by early settlers, such as monks and hermits. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Højsted (talk • contribs) 20:21, 9 November 2009 (UTC)

(possibly for hundreds of years, although most historians do not think so).

This part is wrong. Small settlements have been found on the island "Sandoy" that shows that people have lived there in about year 400 years before the vikings.

"Excavations of a Viking Age longhouse at á Sondum at Sandur on Sandoy yielded layers that contained charred barley seeds dated to the 4th century AD. By the analysis of charred barley it was possible to identify two settlement stages that preceded the Norse landnám – a younger stage from the period of 6th-8th centuries AD and an older stage dated to the 4th-6th centuries AD. Barley, as well as plantain, does not occur naturally, thus its presence on Sandoy testifies human presence. Evidence of human presence from the period of the 6th-8th centuries in not only proved by palaeobotanical data from á Sondum, comparable data are known as well from other sites as e.g. Tjørnuvík on Streymoy, Gøta on Eysturoy or Hov on Suðuroy; older settlement horizon is attested as well at Argisbrekka by the village of Eiði on Eysturoy. As for the supposed prehistoric settlement of the Faroes, also the pre-landnám habitation on the Faroes brings rather more questions than answers. It is certain, that there was grown barley between the 4th and 8th centuries AD in the Faroe Islands. According to testimony of Dícuill we may also suppose sheep breeding, but there are no other data. As for the interpretation of prehistoric pollen samples from Saksunarvatn we have no information on ethnicity or geographic origin of these settlers. It is known from written sources, that Irish monks settled uninhabited areas of the Atlantic Ocean, however, palaeobotanical data from the Faroes can be interpreted not only as an evidence of hermits from the British Isles."

http://sagy.vikingove.cz/archaeology-of-viking-age-faeroe-islands/