The Vikings were not the first humans to reach the Faroe Islands because Celts from either Scotland or Ireland got there 350 years earlier, a study has claimed.
New evidence from the bottom of a lake in the remote North Atlantic archipelago suggests that an unknown group of people arrived around 1,500 years ago in 500 AD.
Researchers believe the settlers may have been Celts, who would have crossed the rough and unexplored seas from what is now the British