Your Guide to Icelandic Culture

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• Your Guide to Icelandic Culture

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Information About Culture
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.
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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.
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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.
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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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