Náttfari

Náttfari (literally, "nightwalker"; c. 835–?) (last name unknown) was a slave who escaped his master and may have become the first permanent resident of Iceland. Náttfari escaped from Garðar Svavarsson with a slave and a woman when Garðar set sail to the Hebrides from this newfound land which he named Garðarshólmi, now known as Iceland, in the 9th century. When Swede Gardar Svavarsson left the island in the spring of 870, after a winter's stay, moving east towards Norway, a boat drifted away. On the boat were Náttfari, a crew member with a slave and a bond woman, who soon established a farm here. The earliest account of their story is found in the 9th–10th century work Landnámabók (Book of Settlements).

Garðar reached the shores of Iceland on the north coast, near Húsavík. Náttfari, as stated before, escaped with a slave and an ambátt (female slave) and found a place for himself to live, nowadays known as Náttfaravík (Nightwalker's Creeks), which are situated directly opposite to the town of Húsavík, in the Skjálfandi Bay.