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    Icelanders (Icelandic: Íslendingar) are an ethnic group and nation who are native to the island country of Iceland. They speak Icelandic, a North Germanic...
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    The sagas of Icelanders (Icelandic: Íslendingasögur, modern Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈislɛndiŋkaˌsœːɣʏr̥]), also known as family sagas, are a subgenre...
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    commonly adaptations from last names Icelanders adopted when living abroad, usually in Denmark. Notable Icelanders with inherited family names include...
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    Icelanders in Sweden [sv] Icelandic Americans Icelandic Canadians Icelandic Australians Nordic New Zealanders Iceland portal History of Iceland List of...
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  • Icelander is the debut novel of Dustin Long. It is part of the Rectangulars line of McSweeney's Books. It appeared on the Los Angeles Times best-seller's...
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  • form, often preserved as episodes about Icelanders in the kings' sagas. Like kings' sagas, when sagas of Icelanders quote verse, as they often do, it is...
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    Sagas of the Icelanders and the Poetic Edda, landmarks of world literature still widely read and translated today. This literary heritage is the core of the...
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  • "Iceland" as a ploy to discourage oversettlement. According to the Sagas of Icelanders, Hrafna-Flóki Vilgerðarson saw icebergs on the island when he traveled...
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    145-177 Jane Smiley, “The Sagas of the Greenlanders and The Saga of Eirik the Red” in The Sagas of the Icelanders (New York: Penguin, 2005), 672. based...
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    in books referred to as sagas of Icelanders. In the early thirteenth century, the internal conflict known as the age of the Sturlungs weakened Iceland...
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  • feast of Þorrablót. Today, Icelanders typically drink it chilled, as a shot, with a beer, or as a base for cocktails. It often takes the place of gin in...
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    Salem Press. p. 19. ISBN 978-0-89356-430-8. "The Saga of the Greenlanders". The Sagas of Icelanders: A Selection. Translated by Kunz, Keneva. London: Penguin...
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    and sensitivity of the Icelanders. The Ambassador noted that it was safer not to deceive the Icelanders, but to engage with the Icelanders above the board...
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    population of any NATO member and is the only one with no standing army, possessing only a lightly armed coast guard. The Sagas of Icelanders say that a...
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  • the Icelanders who came after them chose to come to Spanish Fork as well in an effort to maintain their culture. By 1860 there were 16 Icelanders living...
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    This list of Academy Award records is current as of the 96th Academy Awards, with the ceremony taking place on March 10, 2024. Most awards won by a single...
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    the Icelanders submitted to the authority of the Norwegian king under the terms of the "Old Covenant" (Gamli sáttmáli) in 1262, the function of the Althing...
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    Retrieved 10 December 2016. Sveinn Helgason, Magnús (26 August 2015). "Do Icelanders really smoke more cannabis than anyone else?". Iceland Magazine. Archived...
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    including an heirloom sword Kársnautr. (Sagas of Icelanders) Mmaagha Kamalu, a sword that belongs to the Igbo god of war Kamalu. This sword glows red when people...
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    "The Law of the National Flag of Icelanders and the State Arms" and describes the Icelandic flag as follows: The civil national flag of Icelanders is blue...
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  • The following is a list of notable films produced in Iceland by Icelanders. Star marked films are films in coproduction with Iceland. Although Arne Mattsson...
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  • Fomed as Deebam, a street arm of KK. Street arm of SVC. Formed as an offshoot of Icelanders (German). Formed by members of the Pyrate Confraternity. This...
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    later nine Icelanders settled in the town of Spanish Fork, Utah, along with other Scandinavians. For the next 20 years, small groups of Icelanders joined...
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  • as of January 2019: While the vast majority of Icelanders do not use regular surnames but rather patronyms or matronyms, around 4% of Icelanders have...
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  • The following is a list of wars involving Iceland. Although modern Iceland does not maintain a standing army, navy nor air force, but it maintains a militarised...
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  • Norwegians. Swedes. Icelanders." Marshall Cavendish 2010, p. 1186 "Danes, Icelanders, Norwegians, and Swedes are Germanic, descendants of peoples who first...
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    Poetry portal List of Icelandic women writers Icelandic literature Culture of Iceland Icelandic language Sagas of Icelanders One in ten Icelanders is a published...
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