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	Icelandic nationalism
		Icelandic nationalism or Þjóðernishyggja is the Icelandic term for nationalism and in a direct/rough translation means "nation-thinking".
		Agitation in Iceland for independence from Denmark, however, long preceded the rise of Nazism in Germany.
		In 1943 a national referendum overwhelmingly voted to establish an independent republic, which was accordingly proclaimed at Thingvellir on June 17, 1944.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/icelandic_nationalism (240 words)

	Faroese Nationalism and the Faroese language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The national awakening in the 19th century was a popular recognition of Faroese cultural traditions and language.
		The struggle to keep the Faroese language alive is part of Faroese identity and nationalism as it is predominantly through language and folk ballads that we sense an ongoing nationalism in the Faroe Islands.
		National Romanticism in Europe eventually reached the Faroes and attention was once again given to the old folk ballads.
	www.visittorshavn.fo /nationalism.htm (1251 words)

	Iceland history (the s.c.nordic FAQ) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Iceland received its first inhabitants from Norway (prior to that, some Celtic colonies had existed in Iceland) as Ingólfr Arnarson arrives in Reykjavík.
		Iceland joins the NATO after a long dispute, and in 1951 reluctantly allows the U.S. to maintain a naval base at Keflavík in return for U.S. defense of Iceland.
		The volcano Helgafell erupted on the island of Heimaey, destroying one quarter of the houses on Vestmanneyjar (the Westman Islands), one of Iceland's busiest fishing harbours.
	www.lysator.liu.se /nordic/scn/faq53.html (580 words)

	Iceland - Gurupedia
		Iceland's old parliament, the Althing, has 63 members, who are elected by the population every four years.
		Iceland has many geysers (itself an Icelandic word) and the widespread availability of geothermal power means residents of most towns have hot water and home heat for a low price.
		The language spoken is Icelandic, a Scandinavian language, and the religion is predominantly Lutheran.
	www.gurupedia.com /i/ic/iceland.htm (818 words)

	2. Denmark and Iceland. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
		The Napoleonic Wars had severely hurt Icelandic trade because of the blockade between Iceland and the Continent as well as continued trade restrictions.
		In 1818, the Rigsbank was replaced by the National Bank, which managed to restore the currency to par by 1838.
		King Christian VIII instructed a commission to consider the establishment of a national assembly for Iceland.
	www.bartleby.com /67/1077.html (588 words)

	i8 - birgir
		What these stamps have in common is a certain mythologization of their subjects in harmony with the Icelandic nationalism that reigned in Iceland the decades before the self-declaration of the Icelandic Republic in 1944.
		The Icelandic myth created by the energetic and enthusiastic generation of Icelanders that was born around year 1900 was probably as far from reality as it could be, but it served important political means.
		It succeeded in making the nation believe in an artificial image, and on the roots of that belief many miracles were achieved in the political field, although several of the utopias of that generation proved to be a stillbirth.
	www.i8.is /new/birgir.htm (1033 words)

	histweb
		The rupture was a conflict between educational ideas and the practices of a rural country with its cultural traditions, on the one hand, and the belief that educational reform should be based on scientific knowledge and modern curricular thought, on the other hand.
		The impact of nationalism on educational perspectives in Iceland, in particular on history as a school subject is important.
		Icelandic history textbooks have been studied by Gunnar Karlsson, a professor of history at the University of Iceland.
	www.ismennt.is /not/ingo/histweb.htm (2426 words)

	Iceland, the Jews, and Anti-Semitism, 1625-2004 - Vilhjálmur Örn Vilhjálmsson
		Iceland was, however, one of the thirty-three states that voted in favor of Israel's establishment in the UN Partition Resolution of 29 November 1947.
		An Icelandic neo-Nazi participated in the ensuing debate, and wrote in response to one of the few critics of the Holocaust denier: "the goal of [his] article is to destroy the Icelandic nation, because he doubts the importance of the Icelandic language, our beautiful mother tongue.
		Jónas Guðmundsson was chairman of the National Association of Municipalities in Iceland for a number of years, a member of and chairman of the Icelandic ILO (International Labour Organisation) delegation, and chairman of numerous committees and boards on social welfare in Iceland and abroad.
	www.jcpa.org /phas/phas-vilhjalmur-f04.htm (9392 words)

	Nordic FAQ - 5 of 7 - ICELAND
		Icelanders seem to like their presidents, because a president running for reelection has in nine times out of ten gone unopposed, and the tenth time won by a landslide.
		Icelandic and Faroese are the only Scandinavian languages to have kept the complicated inflection system of the Old Norse spoken during the viking age.
		Skaftafell national park is a beutiful contrast between the white icecap, the fl basaltic sands, muddy glacial waters and clear brooks in narrow gulches, woodlands and wide variety of flowering plants is enough to amase anyone.
	www.faqs.org /faqs/nordic-faq/part5_ICELAND (6658 words)

	ICELAND
		As Iceland became an independent Kingdom in personal union with Denmark in 1918, it was possible for Icelanders and Icelandic associations to join international organizations.
		Scouting had a firm start in Iceland and grew fast during the thirties as in 1940 the number of Scouts and Guides was around 3,000, out of population of 130,000.
		Icelandic scouts have been very active in international Scouting, working together with the Nordic countries, effective in the preparation of the Nordjamb 1975 (World Scout Jamboree in Norway), and participating in annual program prepared by the Nordic Scout Council.
	n2zgu.50megs.com /ICE.htm (711 words)

	IceKyoto
		Traditionally, nationalism was most important in terms of political independence (in the post-World War II period this is, for instance, reflected in debates about NATO and the EU) and Icelandic language and literature (most importantly the medieval sagas).
		She criticizes the position of the Icelandic government to demand greater quotas for an increase in greenhouse gas emission than determined in Kyoto and suggests that Iceland contributes to conceptual work on designing rules about the trading of emissions quotas.
		Iceland must show how much carbon dioxide is bound in forests, and that the research costs are small amount of money compared to how much it would cost to buy greenhouse gas emission quotas.
	www.ismennt.is /not/ingo/IceKyoto.htm (10817 words)

	Jews and Iceland, until 1940
		Iceland's economic and social stagnation lasted until the 19th century, when the Danish king, under the influence of the Enlightenment began to reform the status of this Danish "pale of settlement".
		Iceland's policy towards Jewish refugees from Germany was first discussed in 1944 when Leland B. Morris, the United States ambassador to the Republic of Iceland, raised this subject with the Icelandic Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
		Iceland's refusal to accept the modest number of Jews that applied for immigration or transit visas is incomprehensible in the light of the Government's knowledge of the situation in Germany.
	notendur.centrum.is /~snorrigb/Jewicel.htm (15692 words)

	Stephen E. Toulmin
		Certainly, the nation is a ficcion: The only question was, whether it is a ficcion benigna - one that enriches human experience - or a ficcion maligna - one that impoverishes it and leads to violence.
		Iceland is in fact the nearest thing in real life to the imagined country Thomas More described in 1516, in his satire, Utopia - Nowheresland.
		The move from Modernity and Nation States, to a postnational multiethnic age, means that social inquiry is no longer confined to the detached, factual objectivity considered scientific earlier: it needs a more participatory mode, in which observers participate, by engaging all relevant Voices among the people whose lives they study.
	www.usc.edu /dept/LAS/CMTS/docs/country.html (6099 words)

	PUBLICATIONS, PRESENTATIONS AND WRITINGS RELATED TO ICELAND
		Icelandic Spiritualism: Mediumship and Modernity in Iceland by William H. Swatos, Jr.
		Icelandic Essays, explorations in the anthropology of modern life by Paul Durrenberger, Rudi Publishing, 1995.
		•"National Childhood: The Place of Nationalist Imagery in Icelandic Life Writing," Invited paper at a workshop entitled, Towards the comparative and interpretive understanding of childhood through autobiographies/life stories, sponsored by the Norwegian Centre for Child Research, May 11, 1992, Voss, Norway (publication planned).
	www.faculty.uaf.edu /ffdck/html/IcelandWritngs.htm (523 words)

	Viking Encounter
		It is not a complete history but a "keel" to the dynamic settlement of Iceland which began with Irish monks.
		1949 Iceland joins NATO after a long dispute, and in 1951 reluctantly allows the U.S. to maintain a naval base at Keflavík in return for U.S. defense of Iceland.
		1973 The volcano Helgafell erupted on the island of Heimaey, destroying one quarter of the houses on Vestmanneyjar (the Westman Islands), one of Iceland's busiest fishing harbors.
	www.geocities.com /iceland002001/vikingencounter.html (508 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The stakeholders are the National and University Library of Iceland, Cornell University, and the Árni Magnússon Institute.
		There is a row of Icelandic letters that users may easily cut and paste into the search field, but this is not straight-forward, and there are no instructions on how to do this.
		An economic study revealed that the total cost was $1,277,000, of which $1,045,500 was incurred at the Icelandic National Library, while Cornell’s costs totaled $210,000 and AMI’s costs were $21,500.
	ils.unc.edu /inls235_s04/dl_overviews/SagaNet_Cobine.doc (1218 words)

	ORB -- Medieval Scandinavia, General/Sources
		That interest was the result of several strong trends: nationalism, imperialism, and romanticism.
		There the more popular and better known sagas are available in Icelandic along with current scholarly comment, also in Icelandic.
		This file may be copied on the condition that the entire contents,including the header and this copyright notice, remain intact.
	www.the-orb.net /essays/text02.html (1033 words)

	Nations and Nationalities in Historical Perspectives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		National and Gender Identities in 19th Century Germany: the Case of Leipzig
		German National Thinking and the Building of a Modern National State
		The Island Defenders: Humanist Patriots in Early Modern Iceland and Ireland
	www.stm.unipi.it /Clioh/tabs/libri/book3.htm (84 words)

	Table of contents for Library of Congress control number 2003020219 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Table of contents for Iceland and European integration : on the edge / edited by Baldur Thorhallsson.
		Bibliographic record and links to related information available from the Library of Congress catalog.
		Contents may have variations from the printed book or be incomplete or contain other coding.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/toc/ecip048/2003020219.html (91 words)

	ban
		Brydon, A. Inscriptions of Self: The Construction of Icelandic Landscape in Nineteenth-Century British Travel Writings.
		Brydon, A. Whale-Siting: Spatiality in Icelandic Nationalism (Chapter 2).
		Images of Contemporary Iceland: Everyday Lives and Global Contexts.
	www.uwo.ca /western/publications/199596/socsci/ban.html (461 words)

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