Africa, and the western part of Asia, felt the effects also.
Rolf Pad-th'-hoof, son of Harold's dear friend Rognvald, made an
outlaw for a cattle-raid within the bounds of the kingdom, betook
himself to France, and, with his men, founded a new people and a
dynasty.

Iceland had been known for a good many years, but its only
dwellers had been Irish Culdees, who sought that lonely land to
pray in peace. Now, however, both from Norway and the Western
Isles settlers began to come in. Aud, widow of Olaf the White,
King of Dublin, came, bringing with her many of mixed blood, for
the Gaedhil (pronounced "Gael", Irish) and the Gaill (pronounced
"Gaul", strangers) not only fought furiously, but made friends
firmly, and often intermarried. Indeed, the Westmen were among
the first arrivals, and took the best parts of the island -- on
its western shore, appropriately enough. After a time the
Vikings who had settled in the Isles so worried Harold and his
kingdom, upon which they swooped every other while, that he drew
together a mighty force, and fell upon them wheresoever he could
find them, and followed them up with fire and sword; and this he
did twice, so that in those lands none could abide but folk who
were content to be his men, however lightly they might hold their
allegiance. Hence it was to Iceland that all turned who held to
the old ways, and for over sixty years from the first comer there
was a stream of hardy men pouring in, with their families and
their belongings, simple yeomen, great and warwise chieftains,
rich landowners, who had left their land "for the overbearing of
King Harold," as the "Landnamabok" (7) has it. "There also we
shall escape the troubling of kings and scoundrels", says the
"Vatsdaelasaga". So much of the best blood left Norway that the