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The Settlement Exhibition

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 14, 2026
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The Settlement Exhibition Reykjavík 871±2 is an exhibit run the Reykjavik City Museum in Reykjavík, Iceland. It displays the ruins of one of the first known Viking houses in Iceland in its original location, as well as findings from other excavations in the city center. The exhibition is located at 101 Reykjavík, Aðalstræti 16, at the corner of Aðalstræti and Suðurgata.

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Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current 61-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Settlement, Exhibition and Open-knowledge can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “The Settlement Exhibition” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.