• Events in the year 1865 in Iceland. Monarch: Christian IX Council President of Denmark: Christian Albrecht Bluhme (until 6 November); Christian Emil...
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    older Icelandic words rather than directly taking in loanwords from other languages. Aside from the 300,000 Icelandic speakers in Iceland, Icelandic is spoken...
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    Whaling in Iceland began with spear-drift hunting as early as the 12th century, and continued in a vestigial form until the late 19th century, when other...
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    geographical and cultural region in Northern Europe and the North Atlantic. It includes the sovereign states of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden; the...
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  • (1850–1860) Þórður Jónassen (1860–1865) Hilmar Finsen (1865–1872) Halfdanarson, Gudmundur (2008-10-23). Historical Dictionary of Iceland. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-6274-6...
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    of Grímsey in Iceland A sign along the Dalton Highway marking the location of the Arctic Circle in Alaska, United States Polcirkeln portal in Gällivare...
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  • Jón Laxdal (composer) (category 1865 births)
    October 1865 – 7 July 1928) was an Icelandic composer. The book, New Music in Iceland, by the Swedish music historian, Göran Bergendahl (1938 – ?), in which...
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    Canadian dollar (category All Wikipedia articles written in Canadian English)
    economy, in addition to its relative economic stability. The Canadian ambassador to Iceland said that Iceland could adopt the currency; although Iceland ultimately...
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    Helm of Awe (category Iceland stubs)
    The Helm of Awe or Helm of Terror (Icelandic: Ægishjálmur, Old Norse Œgishjalmr) is an object in Norse mythology relating to the hoard protected by the...
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    related to and partially mutually intelligible with Icelandic. Located a similar distance from Iceland, Norway, and the United Kingdom, the islands have...
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