Although the Norwegian council never recognized the declaration formally, and Norway kept some separate institutions and its legal system, this had the practical effect that the Norwegian possessions of Iceland, Greenland and the Faroe Islands came under direct control of the crown.

Although one formation theory originally proposed since the 1980s by Bohan-Henry and collaborators suggests that drumlin creation by a catastrophic flooding release of highly pressurized water flowing underneath the glacial ice, the recent retreat of a marginal outlet glacier of Hofsjökull in Iceland provided the opportunity for direct study of a drumlin field with formation of > 50 drumlins ranging from in length, in width, and in height.

" Although there is no special reason to doubt the accuracy of this information, it should always be borne in mind that the sagas embody the literary preoccupations of writers and audiences in medieval Iceland, and they cannot always be treated as reliable sources for the history of Norse Greenland.

Although Norway's trade policies have long aimed at harmonizing its industrial and trade policy with the EU's, a new referendum in 1994 gave the same result as in 1972, and Norway remains one of only two Nordic countries outside the EU, the other being Iceland.

Although it allows films from small countries like Iceland or Bosnia and Herzegovina to get recognized by the Academy by putting them on an equal footing with major releases from established filmmaking nations, it also forces countries to exclude many motion pictures because they are forced to select only one film.

Although discredited by many historians and archaeologists, some townspeople continue to claim that Westford was once a stopping point for Scottish Earl Henry Sinclair's surverying expedition to Greenland, Iceland, Nova Scotia, and Massachusetts which is said to have occurred in 1398, nearly 90 full years before Columbus made his discovery of The Americas.

Although Iceland has been independent since 1918, its foreign affairs had been conducted by Denmark until the beginning of World War II.

Although recent archaeological finds in Iceland suggest settlement may have started a little earlier, the date is probably not too far off.

Roth was also the first artist to re-use found books-comic books, printer's end papers and newspapers, ( such as Daily Mirror, 1961 and AC, 1964 ) Although originally produced in Iceland in extremely small editions, Roth's books would be produced in increasingly large runs, through numerous publishers in Europe and North America, and would ultimately be reprinted together by the German publisher Hansjörg Mayer in the 1970s, making them more widely available in the last half-century than the work of any other comparable artist.

Although most pacing horses are raced in harness using sulkies, in Iceland horses are raced while ridden.

Although the size of the word-processing market in a country like Iceland might not have justified the investment of implementing a spell checker, companies like WordPerfect nonetheless strove to localize their software for as many as possible national markets as part of their global marketing strategy.

Although NAS Keflavík has closed and the American military has left Iceland, the United States is still responsible for defending its ally and the facilities at Keflavík will still be available, in the event that a " surged expeditionary presence " is deemed necessary.

Although euro-scepticism is traditionally part of the Independence party platform she has said publicly that due to the 2008 financial crises Iceland has no other choice than to join the EU.

Although having had no contact for 20 years, on October 9, 2006 Pang accidentally met Ono in Iceland, on what would have been Lennon's 66th birthday.

Although the population of Iceland is only about 300, 000, there are scheduled flights to and from seven locations in the United States ( Boston, Denver, Minneapolis, New York, Orlando, Seattle, and Washington ), two in Canada ( Halifax and Toronto ) and 30 cities across Europe.

Although winning 2 – 1 against Iceland in their second game of the 2010 World Cup qualifying campaign, Burley received heavy criticism for the 1 – 0 defeat to Macedonia in the opening match and a 0 – 0 home draw against Norway.

Although many of the songs on Iceland had already been included in past EPs, most were either re-arranged or simply re-recorded.

" Although the man did not want to reveal who he was ( reportedly to keep his " kinsmen and blood-brothers " from getting in trouble by trying to visit him ), the Norse later took him to have been Bjorn the Breidavik-Champion, who had been exiled from Iceland some thirty years earlier.

Although the trio performed jazz on its own, and was very successful in Iceland, its best known work ( also, the best selling jazz album in Iceland ) is the 1990 jazz collaboration with the pop and electronica diva Björk titled Gling-Gló ( Eng.

The coastal villages and towns of Italy, Spain and Mediterranean islands were frequently attacked by them and long stretches of the Italian and Spanish coasts were almost completely abandoned by their inhabitants ; after 1600 Barbary corsairs occasionally entered the Atlantic and struck as far north as Iceland.

The Municipalities of Iceland are local administrative areas in Iceland that provide a number of services to their inhabitants such as kindergartens, elementary schools, waste management, social services, public housing, public transportation, services to senior citizens and handicapped people.

The coastal villages and towns of Italy, Spain and Mediterranean islands were frequently attacked by them and long stretches of the Italian and Spanish coasts were almost completely abandoned by their inhabitants ; after 1600 Barbary pirates occasionally entered the Atlantic and struck as far north as Iceland.

On the other hand, surnames were not compulsory in the Scandinavian countries until the 19th or 20th century ( 1923 ) in Norway, and Iceland still does not use surnames for its native inhabitants.

His good memory, however, aided him to publish an account of the island, and of its inhabitants and flora ; his Tour in Iceland, 1809, was privately circulated in 1811 and reprinted in 1813.

The municipalities of Iceland are local administrative areas in Iceland that provide a number of services to their inhabitants such as kindergartens, elementary schools, waste management, social services, public housing, public transportation, services to senior citizens and handicapped people.

Hella is a small town in the southern part of Iceland at the shores of the river Ytri-Rangá and has, as of 2011, 781 inhabitants.

The village of Reykjahlíð has approximately 300 inhabitants and is situated on the shores of Lake Mývatn in the north of Iceland.

Eyrarbakki is a fishing-town on the south-coast of Iceland with a population of about 570 people, not including inhabitants of the prison located there.

King Olaf I of Norway sends the missionary priest Þangbrandr to Iceland to convert the inhabitants to Christianity.

There are two main strains of contemporary Germanic Paganism known as Ásatrú, originating near-simultaneously in Iceland (, 1972 ) and the USA ( Asatru Free Assembly, 1974 ).

Second, there are well-documented historical examples of ( small ) societies that have practiced unspecific coercion without the help of State institutions — like Iceland in the early Middle Ages.

All those born in Iceland, and all new residents, are automatically registered.

Today's EFTA members are Liechtenstein, Iceland, Norway, and Switzerland — the latter two being founding members.

The books are the main sources of medieval skaldic tradition in Iceland and Norse mythology.

Maximum magnitudes along many normal faults are even more limited because many of them are located along spreading centers, as in Iceland, where the thickness of the brittle layer is only about 6 km.

The Faroe Islands are an island group consisting of eighteen islands off the coast of Northern Europe, between the Norwegian Sea and the North Atlantic, about half-way between Iceland and Norway.

Finland is the only Nordic country to have joined the Eurozone ; Denmark and Sweden have retained their traditional currencies, whereas Iceland and Norway are not members of the EU at all.

In Iceland, patronymics are used by a majority of the population.

Only six breeding colonies are known: Papa Westray in the Orkney Islands, St. Kilda Island off Scotland, Grimsey Island and Eldey Island near Iceland, Funk Island near Newfoundland, and the Bird Rocks ( Rochers-aux-Oiseaux ) in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

In some countries ( Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, United Kingdom, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland ), there are other editions that lack some features such as Windows Media Player, Windows Media Center and Internet Explorer called names such as " Windows 7 N ."

There are two examples: Iceland, which is the world's second largest volcanic island, and Jan Mayen — both are in the Atlantic.

In Iceland, folklore says that if you bathe naked in the morning dew on the morning of June 24, you are supposed to keep aging at bay for longer.

Many of the streets in Kista are named after towns and famous people from Denmark and Iceland.

They are considered " common " ( 0. 20 – 0. 40 individuals per 100 km² ) in the eastern Pacific along the coasts of British Columbia, Washington and Oregon, in the North Atlantic Ocean around Iceland and the Faroe Islands.

The members of CBSS are Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Russia, Sweden and European Commission.

* Whales and dolphins are hunted, partly for their flesh, by aboriginal communities in Japan, Alaska, Siberia, Canada, by the Faroe Islands, Greenland, Iceland, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and by two small communities in Indonesia.

All together there are 255 soldiers serving in Monaco's military ( not including civilian employees who currently number 35 total ), making its military the third smallest in the world ( after Antigua and Barbuda and Iceland ).

There are no cross-border minorities, the nearest land is too far away: see Demographics of Iceland