Word: icelander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Iceland, which is technically not a colony but a sovereign state which happens to have the same King as Denmark, celebrated the 1,000th anniversary of its parliament month ago (TIME, July 7). Great Britain sent its largest battleship, foreign newspapers sent reporters, the world was made Iceland-conscious. Omitted from the festivities were the 21 bleary, rain-drenched Faroe Islands which straggle through the North Atlantic between Iceland and the Shetlands and have been Danish territory since 1386. Life is hard in the Faroes. Their industries are cod-fishing, sheep-raising, knitting golf sweaters, plucking puffin feathers. Their amusements...
London and Winnipeg are separated by twelve days travel. But a straight line drawn from North Scotland to Winnipeg passes across the middle of Greenland, through the Faroe Islands and Iceland- nowhere over more than 300 mi. of water. That is why a party of scientists and airmen (of only 23 years average age) sailed last week from England for the Faroe Islands in Sir Ernest Shackleton's historic ship Quest. As the British arctic air route expedition, commanded by H. G. Watkins, the group will remain until autumn of 1931, amassing weather data, exploring...
...Long Live the King!" Disembarking in a dismal drizzle Their Majesties acknowledged rousing shouts of "Lengi Lift Konungur Bor" ("Long Live Our King") from their Icelandic subjects while not a few of the thousand or more U. S. citizens present (mostly of Icelandic parentage or descent) shouted "Long live the King!" Few minutes afterwards the Swedish kust-pansarfartyg (coast-defense-ship) Oscar II landed H. R. H. Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf. Because a daughter has just been born to his wife, and because just before that their residence burned to the ground, H. R. H. Crown Prince Olav of Norway...
...Miles of Tents." There are four small, scrupulously clean hotels in Reykjavik, Icelandic capital. Knowing that Iceland would have to accommodate some thou sands of visitors Icelanders erected what U. S. correspondents described expansively last week as "miles and miles of tents" (5,000) on the great "Parliamentary Plain" or Thingvellir, where the "All Speaking" or Althing assembled 1,000 years ago near the "Parliamentary Plain Lake" of Thingvallavatn within sight of a long oval fragment of volcanic lava, the "Mount of Law" or Logberg. English correspondents, meticulous, described the excellent sanitary arrangements in the tents: "Water has been laid...
Previously, although united with Denmark only in His Majesty's person, proud Iceland has keenly "felt" the fact that Danish statesmen were representing her at Geneva. Today jubilant Icelanders have for their 1,000th birthday present the final acknowledgment before all that in every respect they are a sovereign nation. Proud too are all Scandinavians that they alone have set the quarrelsome world an example by almost achieving disarmament. As part of the observances at Reykjavik last week their representatives signed a treaty binding them never to go to war and to accept the arbitrations of the Permanent Court...