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During the Viking Age, all was not rosy and peaceful within Scandinavia itself. Internal battles led some Vikings to leave on their longships and head west in search of new lands. The western Atlantic Ocean was an unfamiliar abyss. To head out into the open sea with no maps to follow was simply hazardous. There were no reports of any land west of the known world. The prevailing idea was that if you went too far west on this flat Earth, you would suddenly fly over the edge. It took the reckless Vikings to challenge that belief head on. After many days of sailing west from Norway, the Vikings surprisingly found Iceland in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. It became their first discovery of new land as well as a new settlement.