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...parliamentary body with the longest continuous history is Iceland's Althing. Founded to settle disputes between bellicose land-owning chieftains, it celebrates its millennial (1,000th anniversary) next year. The U. S. Congress has received an invitation to attend the ceremony, through the Danish Minister.* Last week the house of Representatives accepted the invitation, after curious developments. Representative Olger B. Burtness of North Dakota, large of frame, round and red of cheek, presented a resolution to send five U. S. delegates to Reykjavik next June, to provide them with $50,000 for a statue or memorial of Lief Ericson...
...initiator was the Swedish seaplane Sverige, a Junkers like the Bremen of past fame. The Sverige's crew were Captain Albin Ahrenberg, Lieut. Axel Flodin and Mechanic Robert Ljunglund. Their course was to include stops at Stockholm (Sweden), Reykjavik (Iceland), Ivigtut (Greenland), Anticosti Island (Quebec), New York. Last week the Swedes got to Reykjavik, where a broken oil line forced their premature landing and delayed, at least, their completing the trip...
...hastened in, ignored the Meridian, asked to be allowed to view nearby London through one of the small observation telescopes provided for that purpose. After peering earnestly at this dome and that spire for more than an hour, the Spaniard said: "I am on my way from Spain to Iceland, and my ship stops in London harbor for only a short time. I have now seen more of London than any of my friends. I can go on to Iceland, with a satisfied heart...
...Iceland was discovered by the Irish sometime after 800 A.D. A generation or so later when the Norsemen (from Norway, not from Denmark) overran Ireland, they learned from the Irish about the colony which they had already established in Iceland...
Between 860 and 930, 50,000 "Norsemen" colonized Iceland. They swamped the original Irish. ... If you had said that I was of Icelandic descent, you would have been right, certainly. Had you said I was of Norse descent, it would have passed. Had you said I was of Irish descent, there could have been a stout argument for as well as against. You might even make a stand on the allegation that I am of British descent, since my father was a British subject when I was born. But I fear it is hopeless to make me out "of Danish...