Analysis of the structure suggested it was built in 800 A.D. — decades earlier than the permanent settlement of Iceland. Scientists believe that the younger longhouse was built on top of the ...

In a presentation following the annual Arctic Circle Assembly in Reykjavík, he discussed the threat jökulhlaups have posed to communities since the settlement of Iceland 1,150 years ago.

he discussed the threat jökulhlaups have posed to communities since the settlement of Iceland 1,150 years ago. The Icelandic term for the glacial outburst floods — which have been an annual ...