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The History of Iceland
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The only comprehensive history of Iceland
available in English. The only comprehensive histo
ry of Iceland available in English.Unique among
European societies, Iceland was founded late, in
the Viking Age, and has copious written and
archaeological sources about its origin. Gunnar
Karlsson, that country8217spremier historian,
chronicles the age of the
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sagas, consulting them to describe an era without
a monarch or central authority. Equating this
prosperous time with the golden age of antiquity
in world history, Karlsson then marks a
correspondence between the Dark Ages of Europe
and Iceland8217sdreary period, which started
with the loss of political independence in the
late thirteenth century and culminated with an
epoch of poverty and humility, especially during
the early Modern Age. Iceland8217srenaissance
began with the successful struggle for
independence in the nineteenth and early
twentieth centuries, and continued with the
industrial and technical modernization of the
first half of the twentieth century. Karlsson
describes the rise of nationalism as
Iceland8217smostly poor peasants set about
breaking with Denmark, and he shows how Iceland
in the twentieth century slowly caught up
economically with its European neighbors.
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