Is there any project for Settlers (Landnámsmenn) in Iceland) ?

Question

It would be interesting Project to collect all known Settlers (Landnámsmenn) of Iceland, where they came from and compare with modern gene pool of the modern Icelandic public

Answer 1

Not as such. There is an Early Scandinavian project that the settlers would be included in.

There is a category for 'Landnámabók' (strange spelling), which lists those that have been put in that category. Since I only found that category recently, there arent many people in the list, yet. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:Landn%C3%A1mab%C3%B3k

Comments

Thank you Dagmar for your reply I will look into "Landnámamenn"

Sigurbjorn

Answer 2

Is the Íslendingabók useful for this type of project?

For others who aren't familiar with it

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%8Dslendingab%C3%B3k_(genealogical_database)

I visited Iceland in 2019 and was given a demonstration of how the Íslendingabók works at the museum/research centre on Lagarfljot Lake.

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There is also, https://www.visindavefur.is/svar.php?id=1590

With basic answers to the question; Is it possible to find out how many settlers there were by studying the Y-chromosomes of Icelanders?

Answer 3

There is a new Geographical project for Iceland at FamilyTreeDNA. It's growing steadily. That would be a good place to coordinate a project such as this. WikiTree is, of course, the perfect place for the collaborated tree. https://www.familytreedna.com/groups/iceland/about