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...conquer not only England but most of what is now the Baltic States was the bloody feat of Denmark in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries under her Hero-Kings, Cnut the Great and the Valdemars. In the 13th Century valorous Norwegians led by Haakon the Old seized Greenland, Iceland, the Orkneys, the Shetlands and the Hebrides...
...crew 'Heil Hitlered' except me, and sang psalms. . . . Eventually we realized we were sailing north. The captain said we were near Iceland, and later disclosed that he was warned just in time that between Iceland and Britain one British ship was watching every ten miles...
...sailed between Iceland and Spitsbergen, and on the morning of September 6 viewed Murmansk and saw a Russian cruiser. The Bremen had luck: fuel for half a day was left when we arrived...
...last week hastened to do two things: 1) declare their neutrality: 2) prepare for the worst. Full mobilization was ordered in The Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland and Denmark, partial mobilization in Norway and Sweden. Luxembourg, which has no army, increased its gendarmerie and customs guards. Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark and Iceland, which drafted a neutrality convention last year, proclaimed their rules of neutrality. Belligerent warships were prohibited from staying more than 24 hours in their ports, or provisioning there, and the ports were closed to war prizes...
Noble-browed Polar Explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson, 59, published a book about Iceland (Iceland: The First American Republic), joined Local 537 of the New York College Teachers Union, because "as yet there is no union for polar explorers...