• Events in the year 1862 in Iceland. Monarch: Frederick VII of Denmark Council President of Denmark: Carl Christian Hall Governor of Iceland: Þórður Jónassen...
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    Yule cat (category CS1 Icelandic-language sources (is))
    Icelandic folklore, considered the pet of the ogress Grýla and her sons, the Yule Lads. The first definitive mention of the Yule cat is from an 1862 collection...
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    Nábrók (category Witchcraft in Iceland)
    Æfintýri  (in Icelandic). Vol. 1. 1862. pp. 361–362 – via Wikisource. "Katla eða Kötlugjá" . Íslenzkar Þjóðsögur og Æfintýri  (in Icelandic). Vol. 1. 1862. pp...
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    The Catholic Church in Iceland (Icelandic: Kaþólska kirkjan á Íslandi) is part of the Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope. The...
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    stories are attached to several other Icelandic bodies of water. At Skorradalsvatn, Sabine Baring-Gould collected an 1862 account of a monster with a seal-like...
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    Icelandic Christmas folklore depicts mountain-dwelling characters and monsters who come to town during Christmas. The stories are directed at children...
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  • an incomplete list of volcanic eruptions in Iceland. Please see External links below for databases of Icelandic eruptions which include over 530 events...
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  • Olafur Davidsson (category 1862 births)
    Olafur Davidsson (26 January 1862 – 6 September 1903), Icelandic: Ólafur Davíðsson, was an Icelandic natural scientist, ethnographer and folklore collector...
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    Akureyri (redirect from Akureyri, Iceland)
    Akureyri (Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈaːkʏrˌeiːrɪ], locally [ˈaːkʰʏrˌeiːrɪ] ) is a town in northern Iceland, the country's fifth most populous municipality...
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  • George Webbe Dasent (category Icelandic–English translators)
    translations would follow. Dasent made a visit during 1861-1862 to Iceland, where he was hailed in Reykjavík as one of the saga lovers who had strengthened...
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