Were there any indigenous people in Iceland before the Vikings, or was it free for the taking?

by Fert1eTurt1e
James123182

There is some evidence (Including in the Landnámabók and the Íslendingabók) that there was a small group of Celtic monks living in Iceland (Probably members of a Hiberno-Scottish mission), but these monks either left before the Vikings arrived and started colonising, or were rapidly killed/subsumed/exiled by the newly arriving Vikings. Other than these monks, there is no other evidence of an indigenous population.