The Icelandic vistarband (Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈvɪstarˌpant]) was a requirement that all landless people be employed on a farm. A person who did not...

stavnsbånd, from 1733 to 1788) and its vassal Iceland (the more restrictive vistarband, from 1490 until 1894). According to medievalist historian Joseph R. Strayer...

in Washington, D.C. Iceland Exemptions introduced to serfdom under the Vistarband system.  Chatham Islands Slavery abolished. 1864 Congress Poland Serfdom...

its own system of serfdom, while a somewhat similar institution, the vistarband, existed in Iceland (also part of the Danish-Norwegian realm) from 1490...

in hardship for the population. A serfdom-like institution called the vistarband developed, in which peasants were bound to landowners for a year at a...

Johannes Nellemann Hið íslenska kvenfélag is founded in Reykjavík. Serfdom (Vistarband) is abolished in Iceland. Auðkúlukirkja is constructed at the Svínavatn...