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Your guide to Iceland Culture

Your guide to Iceland Culture

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Your guide to Iceland Culture

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  1. Origin of Icelanders The Viking Age is the most acclaimed time in Scandinavian history. Around then, the Norse seafarers took control of all the ocean sections around northern and western Europe, also the water exchange courses in the east and southwards to Russia. They even went as far south as the Mediterranean Sea. On their voyages around the seas, they found uninhabited islands and settled there. Among them are Iceland, the Faroe Islands and Greenland.

  2. Vikings and the Discovery of America Icelandic seafarers found America around the year 1000 AD when cruising on open Viking ships. They vanquished the floods of the Atlantic by crude methods for exploring, cruising for the most part by the sun and stars and the flight of seabirds. The story encompassing this is to a limited extent a family show and starts with Eiríkur Rauði (Eric-the-Red), a troublesome man who was ousted from both Iceland and Norway, before settling in Greenland in the year 985 AD. Soon thereafter, an Icelandic dealer named Bjarni Herjólfsson was cruising for Greenland, however, got passed over course and revealed seeing area toward the west.

  3. Art in Iceland Art in Iceland today is a dynamic, flourishing medium of articulation for painters, artists, photographers, and installation artists. Iceland's perfect scene is a rousing subject for painters and photographers. Innovation has made a huge range of multimedia art and creative photographic works, which are shown in various displays and presentations everywhere throughout the city.

  4. Literature of Iceland Iceland has a long literary history, backpedaling to the season of the Settlement. Vikings recounted stories and sonnets which were passed on from age to age through this oral convention. Towards the end of the twelfth century, these words were painted onto calfskins and the composed word replaced oral narration. From that point , Iceland has seen the printing of numerous artistic works extending from the noteworthy Eddas to medieval writings of the Icelandic adventures and the mainstream secret wrongdoing books of today.

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