The Papar (; from Latin , via Old Irish, meaning "father" or "pope") were Irish monks who took eremitic residence in parts of Iceland before that island's habitation by the Norsemen of Scandinavia. Their existence is attested by the early Icelandic sagas and recent archaeological findings.
The Papar (; from Latin , via Old Irish, meaning "father" or "pope") were Irish monks who took eremitic residence in parts of Iceland before that island's habitation by the Norsemen of Scandinavia. Their existence is attested by the early Icelandic sagas and recent archaeological findings.
==Papar in Iceland== The first Norsemen began settling in Iceland in AD 874. The oldest Scandinavian source mentioning the existence of the Papar, however, the Íslendingabók (Book of the Icelanders) by Icelandic chronicler Ari Þorgilsson, was written between 1122 and 1133, some time after the event. Ari writes of "Christian men", titled the Papar by the Norsemen, who departed the island because of their dislike of the 'heathen' Norse, pointing to the possibility of the Papar having arrived before the Norse.
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