'Náttfari' (nightwalker) escaped from
Garðar Svavarsson with a slave and a woman when Garðar set sail to the
Hebrides from his new found land which he named Garðarshólmi, now known as
Iceland, in the
9th century.
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.