Ingólfur Arnarson

This is the statue you saw the shadow of two days ago. Sculptor is Einar Jónsson and the year 1924. At that time we thought our heroes looked like that - later we found out that they were short, about 1,5 m, had bad teeth and smelled like shit. That is until they came here and could take a bath in the hot springs.
As it is Easter, in the old tradition the day to remember your forefathers (and mothers, of cause) I thought it a good beginning to start statue week with the first settler.
Or was he? I was taught that he was but around 1970, I was 26, started a dispute about the truth of the old sagas and some said that Ingo was a made up character to support that the Norwegians were the first to come to Iceland.
Later we knew by DNA that Icelandic women are mostly from Ireland and four of every five men from Norway. So look at my red beard here.
One of the men who wrote the sagas was Ari the wise and he was a cunning old chap because he wrote in the introduction of the book he wrote here: "Rather use what proves to be true."