www.fgks.org   »   [go: up one dir, main page]
Encyclopedia Britannica Logo
  • Email
Written by The Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica
Written by The Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica
  • Email

history of Iceland

Written by The Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica
Thank you for helping us expand this topic!
Simply begin typing or use the editing tools above to add to this article.
Once you are finished and click submit, your modifications will be sent to our editors for review.
The topic history of Iceland is discussed in the following articles:

major treatment

  • TITLE: Iceland
    SECTION: Settlement (c. 870–c. 930)
    Iceland apparently has no prehistory. According to stories written down some 250 years after the event, the country was discovered and settled by Norse people in the Viking Age. The oldest source, Íslendingabók ( The Book of the Icelanders), written about 1130, sets the period of settlement at about ad 870–930. The other main source, ...

development of democracy

  • TITLE: democracy
    SECTION: Continental Europe
    ...the Vikings realized that to deal with certain larger problems they needed more-inclusive associations, and in Norway, Sweden, and Denmark regional assemblies developed. In 930 Viking descendants in Iceland created the first example of what today would be called a national assembly, legislature, or parliament—the Althing . In later centuries,...

Little Ice Age

  • TITLE: Little Ice Age (LIA) (geochronology)
    SECTION: Effects on civilization
    ...the North Atlantic, Norse colonies in Greenland were cut off from the rest of Norse civilization; the western colony of Greenland collapsed through starvation, and the eastern colony was abandoned. Iceland became increasingly isolated from Scandinavia when the southern limit of sea ice expanded to encapsulate the island and locked it in ice for longer and longer periods during the year. Sea ice...

Nordic Council of Ministers

  • TITLE: Nordic Council of Ministers (Scandinavian political organization)
    organization of the Nordic states of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden for the purpose of consultation and cooperation on matters of common interest. The Council was established in February 1971 under an amendment to the Helsinki Convention (1962) between the Nordic countries. It consists of the ministers of state of the member countries, as well as other ministers with...

North Atlantic Treaty Organization

  • TITLE: North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
    ...of April 4, 1949, which sought to create a counterweight to Soviet armies stationed in central and eastern Europe after World War II. Its original members were Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Joining the original signatories were Greece and Turkey (1952); West Germany (1955; from 1990...

What made you want to look up history of Iceland?

Please select the sections you want to print
Select All
MLA style:
"history of Iceland". Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica Online.
Encyclopædia Britannica Inc., 2014. Web. 16 Oct. 2014
<http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/281306/history-of-Iceland>.
APA style:
history of Iceland. (2014). In Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved from http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/281306/history-of-Iceland
Harvard style:
history of Iceland. 2014. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Retrieved 16 October, 2014, from http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/281306/history-of-Iceland
Chicago Manual of Style:
Encyclopædia Britannica Online, s. v. "history of Iceland", accessed October 16, 2014, http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/281306/history-of-Iceland.

While every effort has been made to follow citation style rules, there may be some discrepancies.
Please refer to the appropriate style manual or other sources if you have any questions.

Click anywhere inside the article to add text or insert superscripts, subscripts, and special characters.
You can also highlight a section and use the tools in this bar to modify existing content:
Editing Tools:
We welcome suggested improvements to any of our articles.
You can make it easier for us to review and, hopefully, publish your contribution by keeping a few points in mind:
  1. Encyclopaedia Britannica articles are written in a neutral, objective tone for a general audience.
  2. You may find it helpful to search within the site to see how similar or related subjects are covered.
  3. Any text you add should be original, not copied from other sources.
  4. At the bottom of the article, feel free to list any sources that support your changes, so that we can fully understand their context. (Internet URLs are best.)
Your contribution may be further edited by our staff, and its publication is subject to our final approval. Unfortunately, our editorial approach may not be able to accommodate all contributions.
(Please limit to 900 characters)

Or click Continue to submit anonymously:

Continue
Quantcast