Page "History of Iceland" Paragraph 9

According to Landnámabók, Iceland was first discovered by Naddoddr, one of the first settlers in the Faroe Islands, who was sailing from Norway to the Faroe Islands, but lost his way and drifted to the east coast of Iceland.

Naddoddr named the country Snæland ( Snowland ).

Swedish sailor Garðar Svavarsson also accidentally drifted to the coast of Iceland.

He discovered that the country was an island and named it Garðarshólmi ( literally Garðar's Islet ) and stayed for the winter at Húsavík.

The first Scandinavian who deliberately sailed to Garðarshólmi ( Iceland ) was Flóki Vilgerðarson, also known as Hrafna-Flóki ( Raven-Flóki ).

Flóki settled for one winter at Barðaströnd.

It was a very cold winter, and when he spotted some drift ice in the fjords he gave the island its current name, Ísland ( Iceland ).