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...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 on and scullery facilities provided...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ICELAND: Millenary | 7/7/1930 | See Source »

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