Most of them went to "New Iceland" on the western shore of Lake Winnipeg. which proved dis.astrously inhospitable. others came directly to the United States. Thus Icelanders settled in Lyon county in Minnesota In 1875 and have remained in several Minnesota communities ever since. In 1878 the Icelanders. led by Rev. Pall Thorlaksson. took land in Pembina county in northeastern North Dakota. The colony was settled both by disillusioned settlers from Canada and by fresh immigrants from Iceland. After ten years it had become the most prosperous settlement in America. and it still is by far the largest and most welltodo Icelandic settlement within the borders of the United States. Here one still finds several place names of Icelandic origin. such as Svold.
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