Depiction of Viking ship found in Iceland | HeritageDaily

Archaeologists have found a depiction of a Viking ship that may be the earliest image discovered in Iceland.

The discovery was made at the Stöð archaeological site near the village of Stöðvarfjörður, situated in the municipality of Fjarðabyggð on Iceland’s eastern coast.

Previous excavations have found two Viking-age longhouses, the older of which dates from before the main migration period, a date which is generally believed to have occurred in the second half of the 9th century AD.

The reasons for the migration are uncertain: later in the Middle Ages, Icelanders…