Person

Garðarr Svavarsson

Norseman who briefly resides in Iceland

b. 835 CE – d. 885 CE World The Atlantic Lands

Garðarr Svavarsson (modern Icelandic: Garðar Svavarsson, modern Swedish: Gardar Svavarsson) is a Norseman who briefly resides in Iceland, according to the Sagas.

He is said to be the second Scandinavian to reach the island of Iceland after Naddod.

He and his family appear in the Icelandic Sagas with the principal source from Haukr Erlendsson's edition of Landnámabók.