It was written by the Icelandic scholar and historian Snorri Sturluson around 1220.

A 17th-century Nordic scholar, Torfaeus, compared the Icelandic hero Amlodi and the Spanish hero Prince Ambales ( from the Ambales Saga ) to Shakespeare's Hamlet.

The latter contains pagan poetry where the norns are frequently referred to, while the former contains, in addition to pagan poetry, retellings, descriptions and commentaries by the 12th and 13th century Icelandic chieftain and scholar Snorri Sturluson.

** Brynjólfur Sveinsson, Icelandic bishop and scholar ( d. 1675 )

* January 7-Árni Magnússon, Icelandic scholar ( born 1663 )

Arngrímur Jónsson was an Icelandic scholar who wrote the book Brevis commentarius de Islandia in Latin as a " defense of Iceland " where he criticized the works of numerous authors who had written about the people and the country of Iceland.

Sæmundr Sigfússon ( or Sæmundr fróði ) ( Sæmundr the Learned ) ( 1056 – 1133 ) was an Icelandic priest and scholar.

Later, his Villa Gherardesca in Fiesole would become the home of the American Icelandic scholar Daniel Willard Fiske, who renamed it the ' Villa Landor '.

Noted Icelandic scholar Sveinbjörn Egilsson served as the first rector of the school from its founding in Reykjavík in 1846.

He was a member of the Arnamagnæan Commission ( Den Arnamagnæanske Kommission ) which managed the Arnamagnæan Foundation ( Det Arnamagnæanske Legat ), custodians for the collection of manuscripts from Icelandic scholar Árni Magnússon.

Arngrímur Jónsson the Learned (; 1568 – June 27, 1648 ) was an Icelandic scholar and an apologist.

The Icelandic scholar Óskar Halldórsson wrote a short book on Hrafnkels saga criticising Sigurður Nordal's previous work.

Sigurður Nordal ( 14 September 1886 – 21 September 1974 ) was an Icelandic scholar, writer and ambassador.

Hermann Pálsson ( 1921 – 2002 ) was an Icelandic language scholar.

Hermann Pálsson, Icelandic scholar and translator: born Sauðanes á Ásum, a farm near Blönduós in Iceland on the 26th May 1921 ; Lecturer in Icelandic Studies, Edinburgh University 1950-82, Professor of Icelandic Studies 1982-88 ( Emeritus ); married 1953 Stella Þorvarðardóttir ( one daughter ); died Bourgas, Bulgaria 11 August 2002.

Hermann Pálsson was, however, not only a translator, he was also one of the most distinguished scholars of Icelandic studies of his generation, though the scholar / translator distinction is almost certainly one he would not have made himself.

Jón Hnefill Aðalsteinsson ( 29 March 1927 – 2 March 2010 ) was an Icelandic scholar and folklorist.

Óskar Halldórsson ( 1921 – 1983 ) was an Icelandic scholar.

Jónas Kristjánsson ( born 1924 ) is an Icelandic scholar and novelist.

The Arnamagnæan Institute (, formerly Det Arnamagnæanske Institut ) is a teaching and research institute established in 1956 to further the study of the manuscripts in the Arnamagnæan Manuscript Collection, the collection bequeathed by the Icelandic scholar and antiquarian Árni Magnússon to the University of Copenhagen in 1730.

Þorgnýr the Lawspeaker ( Old Icelandic: Þorgnýr lögmaðr, Swedish: Torgny Lagman ) is the name of one of at least three generations of lawspeakers by the name Þorgnýr, who appear in the Heimskringla by the Icelandic scholar and chieftain Snorri Sturluson, and in the less known Styrbjarnar þáttr Svíakappa and Hróa þáttr heimska.

Both themes, the difficulty of passage and the presence of ghosts, are referred to in the famous Icelandic song Á Sprengisandi, written by Grímur Thomsen ( 1820-1896 ).

In Icelandic, the cognate word séra is used exclusively to address a priest, together with his first name: a priest called Jón Jónsson will be addressed as séra Jón and referred to as presturinn séra Jón Jónsson (" the priest, séra Jón Jónsson ").

Gramm was an Icelandic record label created by Ásmundur Jónsson and Einar Örn Benediktsson in 1981.

Byron Ingemar " Boss " Johnson ( December 10, 1890 – January 12, 1964 ), born Björn Ingimar " Bjössi " Jónsson, to family of Icelandic Immigrants, he served as the 24th Premier of the province of British Columbia, Canada, from 1947 to 1952.

* Fernir forníslenskir rímnaflokkar " Four Old Icelandic Rímur Cycles " ( Lokrur, Þrymlur, Griplur, Völsungsrímur ), about Norse gods and heroes, edited by Finnur Jónsson.

* Einar Jónsson ( 1874 – 1954 ), Icelandic sculptor

Ásgrímur Jónsson ( March 4, 1876-April 5, 1958 ) was an Icelandic painter, and one of the first in the country to make art a professional living.

* Ríkharður Jónsson ( Played 33 games for the Icelandic national team, scoring 17 goals )

Einar Jónsson ( May 11, 1874 – October 18, 1954 ) was an Icelandic sculptor, born in Galtafell, a farm in southern Iceland.

In the early twentieth century, Einar Jónsson, an Icelandic sculptor, created a statue of Thorfinn Karlsefni which was placed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Hjálmar Jónsson ( born 29 July 1980 ) is an Icelandic footballer who plays as a defender for IFK Göteborg in Allsvenskan.

The constitution was revised in 1903, and a minister for Icelandic affairs, residing in Reykjavík, was made responsible to the Althing, the first of whom was Hannes Hafstein.

The results of this accident made their way into the Icelandic poetic tradition ".

The results of this accident made their way into the Icelandic poetic tradition ".

The results of this accident made their way into the Icelandic poetic tradition ".

The results of this accident made their way into the Icelandic poetic tradition ".

Between 1855 and 1860, the arrival of pioneers from Iceland made Spanish Fork into the first permanent Icelandic settlement in the United States.

Mention of the battle is made in dozens of sources, in Old English, Latin, Irish, Welsh, Icelandic, and Middle English, and there are many later accounts or responses to the battle, including those by Alfred, Lord Tennyson and Jorge Luis Borges.

A thing ( Old Norse, Old English and Icelandic: þing ; German, Dutch ding ; modern Scandinavian languages: ting ) was the governing assembly in Germanic societies and introduced into some Celtic societies, made up of the free people of the community and presided by lawspeakers, meeting in a place called a thingstead.

Pönnukaka are usually cooked on a special Icelandic pancake pan, which is made to get the pancake as thin as possible, and it is important to never wash the pan, not even with water.

There are two maps depicting North America, the " Vinland map ", that some believe is related to Norse exploration, although it is considered to be a modern forgery, and the Skálholt Map, made by an Icelandic teacher in 1570.

The Icelandic haggis called " slátur " ( slaughter ) is made in two versions: " Blóðmör " ( bloodlard ), a sheep's stomach stuffed with a mixture of sheep's blood, rolled oats and cut up bits of sheep's fat, and " lifrarpylsa " ( liver sausage ), which consists of sheep stomach stuffed with a mixture of ground lamb's liver, rolled oats and cut-up bits of mutton.

The Icelandic brawn " Svið " is made from singed sheep heads, and it is eaten either hot or cold off the bone or set in gelatin.

In recent years, efforts have been made to revive native Icelandic forms.

To date, this is the only major law to have been made about the flag and coat of arms, aside from two laws made in 1991: one that defines official flag days as well as the time of day the flag can be drawn, and another that defines the specific colours that the Icelandic flag is composed of ( until then, the colouring had followed by convention ; the new law set the common custom in stone ).

The version sold in Danish and Icelandic bakeries on or around Shrove Monday is rather different, made from puff pastry and filled with whipped cream, a bit of jam and often with icing on top.

He made several voyages to the White Sea and to places in northern Russia, and in 1621 entered the service of the thriving Danish Icelandic Company.

Brennivin is an Icelandic liquor made from potatoes and caraway.

A distinction is sometimes made between looped cursive hand ( writing ), such as the D ' Nealian method, in which the risers of the letters are slanted loops, and letters such as f, r, s, z, D, F, G, L, Q are quite distinct in shape from their printed counterparts, and cursive italic, such as Getty-Dubay, Portland, Eager, Queensland, Barchowsky, and Icelandic which are all derived from chancery cursive.

About 900 years ago, attempts were made to introduce eastern blood into the Icelandic, resulting in a degeneration of the stock.

Following the turn of the 20th century, however, Icelandic society progressed and prospered as industrialisation finally made inroads, and the bank grew and developed in parallel to the nation.

This was considered necessary because of the fundamental changes occurring in the Icelandic banking sector, not least the rapid and successful overseas expansion of the bigger Icelandic banks and the continuous growth of the larger savings banks, which has made them more and more willing to act on their own rather than require the services of Icebank.

WikiLeaks has made available an internal document from Kaupthing Bank from just prior to the collapse of Iceland's banking sector, which led to the 2008 – 2009 Icelandic financial crisis.