Iceland

Then, a decade ago, on a river in northern Iceland, he got trapped beneath a waterfall and nearly drowned, washing up half a mile downstream.

Nowadays Iceland and its Nordic neighbours are more trendy than ever.

The landscape here, like all of Iceland, has a primeval majesty.

Iceland has more writers and publishes more books per capita than any other country in the world.

“For us in Iceland this is not a very interesting question,” President Olafur Ragnar Grimsson says.

From the wild weather to the harsh landscape, Iceland has its fair share of mystifying phenomena.

Great eruption of the Scaptar Jokul, in Iceland, commenced, and continued several days (see 18th).

Now King Harald bade a warlock betake him to Iceland in one or other guise, that he might bring him back tidings of the country.

Thangbrand abode three winters in Iceland, and was the slayer of three men or ever he departed thence.

Now the King lent an ear to these speeches, and all the men of Iceland who were there were baptized.

The sons of many mighty men of Iceland are here present, & their fathers will, we trow, lend their aid in this matter.