Though centered around Japan, the film was also shot in such other countries as Guinea Bissau, Ireland and Iceland.

The Icelandic Commonwealth or the Icelandic Free State ( Icelandic: Þjóðveldið ) was the state existing in Iceland between the establishment of the Althing in 930 and the pledge of fealty to the Norwegian king in 1262.

Danish was an official language in Iceland until 1944 but is today still widely used and is a mandatory subject in school.

On the Danish flag, the cross design, which represents Christianity, was subsequently adopted by the other Nordic countries ; Sweden, Norway, Finland, Iceland, Åland Islands and the Faroe Islands, as well as the Scottish archipelagos of Shetland and Orkney.

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.

Because of its graphic violence and terror, the original version of the movie was banned in several countries, including Finland, Germany, Iceland and Ireland.

Following the restoration of independence from the Soviet Union, Russia was one of the first nations to recognize Estonia's independence ( the first country to do so was Iceland on 22 August 1991 ).

At that time, versions of the Prose Edda were well known in Iceland, but scholars speculated that there once was another Edda — an Elder Edda — which contained the pagan poems Snorri quotes in his book.

For centuries it was stored in the Royal Library in Copenhagen but in 1971 it was returned to Iceland.

It was also used in Scandinavia during the Middle Ages, but was subsequently replaced with dh and later d. Its use has survived in Iceland and the Faroe Islands.

The European nation that proved the exception to this however was the highly-literate Iceland, where a third of the 134 witch trials held here involved people who had owned grimoires.

The Great Auk was found in the cold North Atlantic coastal waters along the coasts of Canada, the northeastern United States, Norway, Greenland, Iceland, the Faroe Islands, Ireland, Great Britain, France, and northern Spain.

It was written in Old Norse in Iceland by the poet and historian Snorri Sturluson ( 1178 / 79 – 1241 ) ca.

It voyaged from Iceland to Bergen, Norway and was moved to Copenhagen, the University Library.

In Iceland, Keflavík was renowned as a rich source of musicians during the 1960s and 70s, and is therefore also known as bítlabærinn or " The Beatle Town ".

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.

He was later quoted as saying that he had the idea of the attempt to reach Moscow even before the departure, and he saw the trip to Iceland ( where he visited Hofdi House, the site of unsuccessful talks between the United States and the Soviet Union in October 1986 ) as a way to test his piloting skills.

There are few sources on Ole Rømer until his immatriculation in 1662 at the University of Copenhagen, at which his mentor was Rasmus Bartholin who published his discovery of the double refraction of a light ray by Iceland spar ( calcite ) in 1668, while Rømer was living in his home.

The fact that Pytheas lived centuries before the colonization of Iceland and Greenland by European agriculturalists makes them less likely candidates, as Thule was populated and its soil was tilled.

Thule was perhaps actually discovered in the 4th century BC but was lost, and then later reidentified by ancient explorers and geographers as Shetland, Iceland, Scandinavia, or even as nonexistent.

These issues achieved particular prominence in 2012 when Alexander Gianturco ( known in-game as The Mittani ), the leader of Goonswarm ( one of the largest and most influential alliances in the game ), was issued with a temporary ban and forced to resign as Chairman of the Council of Stellar Management after giving a live-streamed public presentation at the annual FanFest event in Iceland in which he mocked a player who had expressed suicidal thoughts and encouraged the audience watching live and online to grief the player in-game if they wanted the player to kill himself.

Geoffrey Corlett, who became the first Games Director, not only contacted the islands surrounding the United Kingdom, but also encouraged the countries of Iceland and Malta, the territories of Faroe Islands, Greenland, Saint Helena and Channel Islands ; and others to participate.

The number of homeless people in Iceland is not high, so it has not received much attention since slums do not exist.

The moratorium on commercial whaling led Iceland to withdraw in protest from IWC, as it had threatened to do if the moratorium was extended.

Lord Gort was given the post of Inspector of Training and the Home Guard, and with nothing constructive to do visited Iceland, Orkney and Shetland.

The geothermal areas of Yellowstone National Park contain several notable examples of both mudpots and paint pots, as do some areas of Iceland and New Zealand.

Frank and Joe do not lack for money and they travel frequently to far-away locations, including Mexico in The Mark on the Door ( 1934 ), Scotland in The Secret Agent on Flight 101 ( 1967 ), Iceland in The Arctic Patrol Mystery ( 1969 ), Egypt in The Mummy Case ( 1980 ), and Kenya in The Mystery of the Black Rhino ( 2003 ).

Strandings have occurred off Nova Scotia, Iceland, the British Isles, Japan, Rio Grande do Sul, South Africa, central Chile, Tasmania, and New Zealand.

The GIUK gap was particularly important to the British Royal Navy, as any attempt by northern European forces to break into the open Atlantic would have to do so either through the heavily defended English Channel, which is also one of the world's busiest seaways, or through one of the exits on either side of Iceland.

Sony Music is the general record company associated and affiliated with the Idols format in most countries, though countries like Iceland, Vietnam and Kazakhstan have affiliate labels as they do not have a local Sony Music subsidiary.

He declined the post but promised the king to do what he could to collect manuscripts in Iceland.

According to Larsen, the mission likely started off from Bergen, went on through to Iceland and Greenland, and eventually discovered Terra do Bacalhau, the " Land of Codfish ", later presumed to be Newfoundland or Labrador.

This had to do partly with the lack of good modeling clay in Iceland, but it allowed Einar to work on his individual sculptures for years.

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.

The GIUK gap is particularly important to the Royal Navy, as any attempt by northern European forces to break into the open Atlantic would have to do so either through the heavily defended English Channel which is also the world's busiest shipping lane or through one of the exits on either side of Iceland.

The book charts Bourne's course from the United States, to France and then to Budapest in Hungary where he learns the final thing he needs to do — to stop Spalko's attack in Iceland.

After hearing the Xeneizes album, specifically, the song " Stick ' Em Up " ( which, according to Sölvi, sounded like something Limp Bizkit would do ), EMI Music Resources contacted Quarashi to perform at the Iceland Airwaves Music Festival hosted by EMI in conjunction with Flugleiðir in New York City in the fall of 1999.

* As of 2011, MTV European still serves a smaller number of countries which do not have a local MTV feed, including: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bulgaria, Estonia, Faroe Islands, Georgia, Iceland, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Turkey, Moldova and Malta.

* Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Denmark, Iceland, Finland, Hungary, Latvia, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal and Sweden use plates that do not denote location.

Many stores in Iceland do however carry the film, despite the ban.

Notable reservations include those by Iceland, Japan and Norway on various baleen whale species and those on Falconiformes by Saudi Arabia.

A 2006 and 2007 study on superstition by the University of Iceland ’ s Faculty of Social Sciences supervised by Terry Gunnell ( associate folklore professor ), reveal that natives would not rule out the existence of elves and ghosts ( similar results of a 1974 survey by Professor Erlendur Haraldsson, Fréttabladid reports ).

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

Eleven minutes after the declaration went into force, the United States de facto recognised the State of Israel, followed by Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi's Iran ( which had voted against the UN partition plan ), Guatemala, Iceland, Nicaragua, Romania, and Uruguay.

Recently, there has been much interest in the possibility of exploiting seabed resources in the Arctic Ocean, bordered by Canada, Denmark, Iceland, Norway, Russia and the United States ( see Territorial claims in the Arctic ).

It has been criticised on the grounds that it in fact excludes most of the islands in the North Atlantic, including Iceland, Greenland, the Faroe Islands, Newfoundland, Prince Edward Island, Cape Breton Island, and the Azores, and also that the only island referred to by the term that is actually in the North Atlantic Ocean is Ireland.

The land named Svalbarð (" cold coast ") by the Vikings in the early medieval book Landnámabók may have been Jan Mayen ( instead of Spitsbergen, renamed Svalbard by the Norwegians in modern times ); the distance from Iceland to Svalbarð mentioned in this book is two days sailing, consistent with the approximate to Jan Mayen and not with the approximate to Spitsbergen.

* 1783 – A poisonous cloud caused by the eruption of the Laki volcano in Iceland reaches Le Havre in France.

* 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.

* 1940 – World War II: Invasion of Iceland by the United Kingdom.

* 2002 – The " 55 parties " clause of the Kyoto protocol is reached after its ratification by Iceland.

In the southwest, it is separated from the Atlantic Ocean by a submarine ridge running between Iceland and the Faroe Islands.

* 1941 – World War II: The destroyer USS Reuben James is torpedoed by a German U-boat near Iceland, killing more than 100 United States Navy sailors.

From the time of the Roman Empire all the possibilities were suggested repeatedly by each generation of writers: Iceland, Shetland, the Faroe Islands, Norway and later Greenland.