Iceland remained under Norwegian kingship until 1380, when the death of Olav IV extinguished the Norwegian male royal line.

In July 1941, U. S. troops entered Iceland on the invitation of Sveinn's government and remained, in reduced numbers, after the war ; their continued presence provoked the main controversy of the nation's postwar foreign policy.

While Norway, Germany, Poland, and Iceland harboured the largest surviving populations, pockets of reproducing pairs remained in several other countries.

Iceland became a fully independent republic in 1944 and has remained so thereafter.

Specifically excluded from the exchange were the Norwegian dependencies of Greenland, Iceland and the Faroe Islands which remained in the union with Denmark.

Rask visited Iceland, where he remained from 1813 to 1815, mastering the language and familiarizing himself with the literature, manners, and customs of Iceland.

Executive power was strengthened under this new order, while legislative and judicial authority remained in the hands of the Alþingi but was gradually transferred to the Norwegian and later Danish rulers until the King of Denmark became an absolute monarch of Iceland in 1662.

After the coastline had receded seaward ( it is now at a distance of about from Skógar ), the former sea cliffs remained, parallel to the coast over hundreds of kilometres, creating together with some mountains a clear border between the coastal lowlands and the Highlands of Iceland.

After studying at the University of Copenhagen, Sigurdur became a teacher at the former monastery of Skálholt, which remained the religious and educational centre in Iceland even after Protestantism was introduced in 1551.

In June of the following year, he became Commanding Officer of the 1st Battalion, 6th Marines, and in May 1941, sailed with the 6th Marine Regiment for Iceland where he remained until returning to the United States in March 1942.

Ultimately, Egill returned to his family farm in Iceland, where he remained a power to be reckoned with in local politics.

Also, the US Navy base in Keflavík, Iceland, operated a radio station for the troops ( AFRS 1484 on the radio dial ) that mainly played rock music and was very popular with young Icelanders in the Reykjavík area and remained important to Icelandic rock music until at least the mid 1970s.

After a series of short journeys to Iceland ( 1869 ), Western Africa ( 1873 ), Tunis ( 1874 ) and Lower Egypt ( 1875 ), he remained almost continuously in eastern Equatorial Africa from 1875 to 1886, making first Khartoum and afterwards Lado the base of his expeditions.

However, the ash cloud from the second eruption disrupted air traffic over Great Britain and most of northern and western Europe, making it difficult to travel to Iceland even though Iceland's airspace itself remained open throughout.

Schmeichel was called up to the Denmark national football team, on 13 May 2011 for the first time for the match against Iceland but remained an unused substitute.

In addition, Malta was considered an island of North Africa for centuries, while Iceland, though nearer to Greenland ( North America ), is also generally included in Europe.

Iceland applied for EU membership in 2009 due to the 2008 – 2012 Icelandic financial crisis.

This flag, called the Dannebrog, inspired the cross design of the other Nordic countries: Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, and regional Scandinavian flags for the Faroe Islands, Åland, Scania and Bornholm, as well as flags for the non-Scandinavian Shetland and Orkney.

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.

Poets in medieval Iceland even treated Christian themes using the traditional repertoire of kennings complete with allusions to heathen myths and aristocratic epithets for saints: Þrúðr falda “ goddess of headdresses ” = “ Saint Catherine ” ( Kálfr Hallsson: Kátrínardrápa 4 ).

* 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.

In the same year, the participating countries ( Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, West Germany, the United Kingdom, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, and the United States ) signed an accord establishing a master financial-aid-coordinating agency, the Organization for European Economic Cooperation ( later called the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, OECD ), which was headed by Frenchman Robert Marjolin.

In Iceland, the members of Ásatrúarfélagið account for 0. 4 % of the total population, which is just over a thousand people.

There are government monopolies in place for selling spirits, wine and stronger beers in Norway ( Vinmonopolet ), Sweden ( Systembolaget ), Iceland ( Vínbúðin ), the Faroe Islands ( Rúsdrekkasøla landsins ) and Finland ( Alko ).

The islet is claimed by Denmark ( for the Faroe Islands ), Iceland, Ireland and the United Kingdom.

Denmark, Sweden, and the Russian Empire dominated the political relationships on the Scandinavian Peninsula for centuries, with Iceland, Finland, and Norway only gaining their full independence during the 20th century.

In 1949, Norway, Denmark, and Iceland became founding members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization for their defense against Germany, the Soviet Union, and all other potential invaders, and these three countries remain members as of 2011.

Iceland, on the other hand, does not have a long tradition of squatting, but homeless people have been occupying abandoned houses for the same reasons as in other countries.

The council voted to allow the squatters to stay in the building, which they called Iceland, until the plans for demolition were in place.

It was banned for periods in many other countries, including Brazil, Chile, Finland, France, Iceland, Ireland, Norway, Singapore, Sweden and West Germany.

A scientific conference for those who study thermophiles has been held since 1990 at locations throughout the world, including Viterbo, Italy ; Reykjavik, Iceland ; New Delhi, India ; and Bergen, Norway.

While harsh, the microclimates along some fjords allowed for a pastoral lifestyle similar to that of Iceland.

Where the mid-oceanic ridge is above sea-level, volcanic islands are formed, for example, Iceland.

In the Viking colony of Iceland, an extraordinary vernacular literature blossomed in the twelfth to 14th centuries, and many traditions connected with the Viking Age were written down for the first time in the Icelandic sagas.

During the 18th century, British interest and enthusiasm for Iceland and early Scandinavian culture grew dramatically, expressed in English translations of Old Norse texts, and original poems which extolled the supposed " Viking virtues ".

There is another contender for the discoverer of Iceland: Naddoddr, a Norwegian / Faeroese Viking explorer.

Iceland presented a feasibility study to the 2003 IWC meeting for catches in 2003 and 2004.

Ice surrounded Iceland for miles in every direction.

Linguistics scholars demonstrated that, even as a suffix, this peculiar usage of vin had ceased long before the colonization of Iceland and Greenland.

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.

It was thus long thought that Harald thus caused the Norse settlement of Iceland and beyond.

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.

For a long period, stockfish trade made up the bulk of Iceland's exports Around the time Iceland became a vassal state of Norway, a climate shift occurred — a phenomenon now called the Little Ice Age.

Langjökull ( Icelandic for " long glacier ") is the second largest ice cap in Iceland ( 953 km < SUP > 2 </ SUP >), after Vatnajökull.

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.

During the Second World War, the Short Sunderland became famous as an effective anti-submarine patrol bomber, because its long range and long flying time allowed it to close the Mid-Atlantic air gap between Iceland and Greenland, helping end the Battle of the Atlantic.

These definitions all have in common the same northern point ( because this is the only station in the region with a long record ) in Iceland ; and various southern points.

* Íþróttahöllin ( The Sports-Palace ) is the oldest sports hall in Iceland and for a long time it was the biggest one, although it is thought to be very small and outdated by today's standards.

Iceland and Greenland have long shared histories with Denmark, and the fish from these North Atlantic lands is a sign of quality.

At 198m, it was long regarded as the tallest waterfall in Iceland until being surpassed with a new falls by Morsárjökull in 2011.

Krafla is a caldera of about 10 km in diameter with a 90 km long fissure zone, in the north of Iceland in the Mývatn region.

Breiðafjörður is a large shallow bay, about 50 km wide and 125 km long and located in the west of Iceland.

: The cause of this universal fog is not yet ascertained [...] or whether it was the vast quantity of smoke, long continuing, to issue during the summer from Hekla in Iceland, and that other volcano which arose out of the sea near that island, which smoke might be spread by various winds, over the northern part of the world, is yet uncertain.

The village has a long history, dating from the time of the first settlements in Iceland.

From Iceland there is substantial literature, namely the Nordic Sagas and the Eddas, but most of this was written long after Iceland's conversion to Christianity.

As part of the long term exhibits, there are five ethnic galleries, one for each country, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, as well a gallery, " Dream of America ", describing Nordic emigration to the Pacific Northwest.

This effort has been vexed by the lack of very long chains, by the fact that many are not time-progressive ( e. g. the Galápagos ) and by the fact that hotspots do not appear to be fixed relative to one another ( e. g., Hawaii and Iceland.

Grettir is celebrated in the long poem Eclogue from Iceland in the 1938 collection The Earth Compels by Irish poet Louis MacNeice, who had developed a love of Norse mythology while at school at Marlborough College.

Its largest exhibit is a portion of a blue whale's penis measuring long and weighing, which Iceland Review has dubbed " a real Moby Dick ".

On the contrary, Óskar takes this as confirmation that the story of Hrafnkell survived independently in the east of Iceland, and changed in unimportant details, long after the composition of Landnámabók.