British Or Irish Reached Remote Faroe Islands Before Vikings

[Nemo]

British or Irish reached remote Faroe Islands before Vikings

People from Britain or Ireland may have reached the remote Faroe Islands before the Vikings, according to new evidence.
Historically, the North Atlantic archipelago was part of the Viking world and its inhabitants speak a language derived from Old Norse.
Now, evidence has emerged that people reached the island by 500 AD - some 350 years before Scandinavians arrived.
This early settlement pre-dates the adoption of long-distance sailing technology by the Vikings.

(C) BBC '21

Thats a Faroe way to go, just to take your pet sheep out for the day.

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[Kondoru]

Thats funny.

They did a C14 test on a Barley grain from North Rona. (closes land to Faroes)

600AD.

So, not Viking or Irish Monk.

 

[SummerLightning]

Archaelogical evidence hinting at pre-Viking settlement of the Faroes seems to have been published in early 2013: https://sciencenordic.com/agricultu...-pre-viking-life-on-the-faroe-islands/1381829