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Iceland was, alongside Madagascar and New Zealand, one of the last large landmasses settled by humans. In the case of Madagascar it is theory, that first people came there by accident:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.economist.com/science-and-technology/2012/03/24/thirty-lost-souls
That makes me wonder: could humans get to iceland much earlier as result of some storm taking their boat to the open sea, and then with extreme amount of luck their drifting boat makes it to Iceland? Even more luckily-there happened to be women on the boat, so survivors of that unlikely journey could start new population on the Island? Say such event happens around 5-6 kya and settlers came from British Isles (perhaps they're first farmers trying to get to Orkneys or Hebrides). Is it possible, that isolated population of hunter-gatherers (farmers would not be prosperous there) would emerge on Iceland as result and survive until contact with Celts/Normans (or their analogues)?
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