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--- campaigns:latitude_history:places:island [2026/07/04 21:30] – Add Island overview Seraphina
+++ campaigns:latitude_history:places:island [2026/07/05 22:17] (current) – Remove internal planning sections from public pages Seraphina
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   * [[campaigns:latitude_history:places:hjaltland|Hjaltland]]
-===== Campaign Use =====
+===== Major Locations Around 800 AD =====
-The party has not yet visited Ísland in the recorded campaign. Keep it available for scouting the northern seas, searching for Aetherstone routes, dealing with outlaws, or grounding far-northern folklore in a real settlement frontier.
+Around 800 AD, Ísland should not yet feel like a settled Norse country. Use these as landmarks, possible hermit sites, later settlement places, or places sailors name after later reports.
-===== Notes and Uncertainty =====
+  * **Reykjavík:** Later first-settlement site in the southwest; around 800 it is best treated as an empty smoke-cove landscape of steam, shore, and birds.
+  * **Reykjanes:** Southwestern headland and dangerous landfall, useful for geothermal signs, rough seas, and first sightings from a ship.
+  * **Vestmannaeyjar:** Offshore islands south of Iceland; later stories tie the name to Irish "Westmen," making them useful for Papar or early-contact rumors.
+  * **Papey:** East-coast island whose name preserves a tradition of Papar, useful for traces of earlier hermits even if the evidence remains uncertain.
+  * **Breiðafjörður:** Broad western fjord full of islands, later important for settlement and sea travel.
+  * **Borgarfjörður:** Western fjord region tied to early settlement traditions; useful as a later homestead zone or sheltered landing.
+  * **Eyjafjörður:** Northern fjord and natural harbor region, useful for weather, whales, driftwood, and later farm settlement.
+  * **Þingvellir:** Later assembly site of the Alþingi; around 800 it is just a striking rift-valley landscape, not yet the national meeting place.
+  * **Hekla and the southern volcano country:** A dangerous inland landmark for smoke, ash, omens, and landvættir stories.
-  * Confidence: high for Ísland as the Old Norse name for Iceland.
+===== Campaign Use =====
-  * The Aetherstone Islands are fictional and remain separate from historical Iceland.
-  * No current adventure placement has been recorded.
+The party has not yet visited Ísland in the recorded campaign. Keep it available for scouting the northern seas, searching for Aetherstone routes, dealing with outlaws, or grounding far-northern folklore in a real settlement frontier.