Viking-era woman sheds light on Iceland’s earliest settlers
Diet, artifacts tell tale of short life of the ‘woman in blue’
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EARLY ICELANDER A young woman now determined to have been one of Iceland’s earliest settlers was found in 1938 in a grave with various Viking-era objects, including this pair of brooches.
Ivar Brynjólfsson/The National Museum of Iceland