| From: | Robert Svard <robertsvard@*****.COM> |
|---|---|
| Subject: | Regarding Iceland |
| Date: | Tue, 5 May 1998 06:24:39 -0700 |
to this list (regarding Siberia...), and I was quite disturbed to read
the stuff coming from Wordman regarding Iceland...
As you all know, Iceland (today) is a european independent state,
populated by about 250K's of Icelanders. Iceland was completely
uninhabited until about 800a.d., when it was discovered by the
norwegians... A large community of Norwegian nobles moved there about
900a.d., largely as a result of political moves by the then norwegian
king, 'Harald'. In the 11th century, they converted to Christianity,
and a period of norwegian dependence came aboot... (feel free to
correct me on the history trivia, I'm no history know-it-all).
The modern sources of income is Fishing, farming, mining, wool, etc.
No Americans, native or otherwise came to the harsh little island,
until the 18th century, so any claims by native american nations are
completely, UTTERLY ridicilous.
On the other hand, Greenland has always been the home of a large
Native-american population... although it is part of north- america,
it belong officially to Denmark, which, is is a european country... So
Greenland is very likely to belong to NAN...
Iceland trivia:
1. There are no forests in Iceland, although there is a small park...
2. Icelandic is the oldest still surviving Norse (germanic) language,
apart from Norwegian ,Danish, Swedish.
Greenland trivia:
1. Greenland has the highst concentration of recording studios
(musical) everywhere in the world, per capita...
2. Greenland today IS a member of the Nordic Council.
3. Yes, there is ONE web-site in "Greenlandish", it's not very cool
(find it if you can!)
Just my badly-articualted view on this matter... Cheers fellow runners
in the Shadows... Sorry for all the typos... //Robert, Uppsala, Sweden.
---Wordman <wordman@*******.COM> wrote:
1) Iceland. The web site says that Iceland changed very little. This
is not the case. NAN 2, pg 81. "The Trans-Polar Aleut covers the
northernmost regions of what were once Alaska, the Yukon, and the
Northwest Territories of North America, the northern Areas of the
eastern Soviet Union, and the entirety of Greenland and Iceland."
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