AHC: Romance-speaking iceland

The two most obvious candidates for the settlement of iceland were the norse and scots, as they were the closest and most familiar with the area. however, the obvious choice tends to be less interesting than its unlikelier alternatives. how can iceland be romance-speaking today? Would a roman-age PoD be needed or can the post-roman romance countries do it? how would such a remote place develop with romance language & culture? will we see something similar to OTL, where TTL icelandic is more similar to latin than any other romance language?
 
I can see the Romans maybe discovering it if they send an expedition that way like they did with sub-Saharan Africa. The problem here is finding an incentive for them to settle it. From Britannia to Iceland is quite a long voyage on very rough seas to a frigid and barren land. The only real Romance settlement I could see IOTL from a Roman era PoD is random ascetics and monks or political exiles settling there (somewhat similar to the Irish monks of OTL.)

Post-Roman PoD? Perhaps Iceland remains pagan and a Crusade happens as a side theatre of the Northern Crusades. I think it’s still rather unlikely that Norway doesn’t make any moves first or that the Romance elite left over from a potential crusade could impose their language top down onto a population of majority Germanic speakers. Perhaps a creole similar to how modern English developed would do?
 
Britain undergoes much heavier romanization and/or no anglo-saxon invasions, resulting in a majority Romance-speaking area. Later the British capture Iceland for its fisheries and over time assimilate the natives. That or they colonize Iceland first.
 
English is a West Germanic language with a significant superstate or adstrate, not a creole.

I meant similar as in a top down aristocracy imposing significant change on the language of the ruled, I’m not sure if there’s a word for it but creole was what came to mind, you’re right though
 
Perhaps the Romans more successfully Romanize the entirety of Britain, resulting in a Romance dialect with Brythonic influences being spoken throughout the island? Later, as the Scoti invade Caledonia, Pictish refugees flee to Iceland to preserve their way of life, carrying the Caledonian Romance dialect with them? Enough of them flee to establish a community that rapidly fills the island, and the main draw of OTL Norse settlement--essentially free farmland--isn't a thing ITTL.
 
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