Icelanders

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Iceland is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean, located between Greenland and Norway, just south of the Arctic Circle. Its inhabitants, generally referred to as "Icelanders", speak a language called "Icelandic" which is a Germanic language (in the Indo-European language family) similar to Norwegian. Icelanders trace their origins to settlers who came from Norway in the ninth century. Modern Iceland has an industrial economy based on fishing, fish processing, and fish exporting. Prior to 1944 Iceland had been a colony of Denmark, but it is now an independent republic.

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Region
  • Europe
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  • Scandinavia
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  • other subsistence combinations
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Countries
  • Iceland