The A to Z of the Vikings 18. This book provides a comprehensive work of reference for people interested in the Vikings, including entries on the main historical figures involved in this dramatic period, important battles and treaties, significant archaeological finds, and key works and sources of information on the period. It also summarizes the impact the Vikings had on the areas where they traveled and settled. There is a chronological table, detailed and annotated bibliographies for different themes and geographical locations, and an introduction discussing the major events and developments of the Viking age | 148 INGOLF ARNASON swords nails and iron buckles. There were also some apparently empty mounds interpreted as cenotaphs. The site at Heath Wood in Ingleby appears to have been in use for no longer than 20 or 30 years and the excavators have drawn attention to both the similarities and the differences between Ingleby and the pagan burials at Repton which lies just four kilometers to the southeast of Ingleby. It has been suggested that the two sites may physically represent the division of the Great Army that is recorded by the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and that at Ingleby the Vikings were making a clear statement of their religious and political affiliations in a hostile and unfamiliar landscape. INGOLF ARNASON ON Ingolfr Arnason . According to Ari Thorgilsson s Book of the Icelanders Ingolf was the first Norwegian to leave for Iceland when Harald Fine-Hair was sixteen years old and he settled there following a second expedition a few years later. Ingolf is said to have made landfall at IngolfshofSi and he claimed land for his possession at Ingolfsfell but he finally settled at Reykjavik the present-day capital in the southwest of the island. The Book of Settlements adds more details to the bare bones of this story recounting how Ingolf and his foster brother Leif known as Hjorleif or Sword-Leif had to forfeit their estates to Earl Atli of Gaular as compensation for killing his two sons. Following this they embarked on an expedition to find Iceland previously sighted by Floki Vilgerdarson spent one winter there reconnoitering the island and returned to Norway. In 874 they set out to settle Iceland but were parted after sighting land. Hjorleif landed at HjorleifshofSi but he was killed by the Irish slaves he had brought with him who were unhappy at his treatment of them. Ingolf cast his high-seat pillars overboard vowing to settle where they landed and he spent a number of years trying to locate them during which time he also killed the Irish slaves responsible for .
