No Scandinavian Iceland - who gets there?

Alexpira

WI, some how, Scandinavians never get to Iceland (maybe an earlier viking decline or more focus on settlement in England)...who would get there and when? A Gaellic Iceland would be a possibility?
 

Minchandre

You mean, aside from the Irish monks who were probably there before the Norse in the first place? Definitely Irish, Scottish, or maybe English. Proximity means a lot.
 

Lalli

Pretty much only nations who realistically could get that are unified and surviving Kingdom of Ireland, Scotland or England/unified Britain.
 
ArchimedesCircle

ArchimedesCircle

Papars probably (the Irish who were there before the Norse). Maybe they get conquered later, by whoever ends up uniti g Britain (if it does unite). Of course a really interesting idea would be to have them facing an invasion from the Inuit, though I'm not sure how to get that to happen.
 

Notsure

I dont think agriculture will take off until seeds from Norway are introduced. I assume the Irish monks tried with seeds from there homeland with no success.
 
Milites

Milites

Butterflies aside, it’s probably going to be the English. English fishermen and traders were very active in Icelandic waters in the 15th century, getting into quite a few confrontations with the locals. Christian II even tries to pawn off the island to Henry VIII in the first quarter of the 1500s, although the idea stranded on Wolsey’s misgivings.
 

Arkenfolm

Aside from the far more likely Anglo-Celtic option, if you delay it into the 15th century then maybe you could get the Basques there.
 
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