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Benediktsdóttir, Bryndís, Tinna Karen Árnadóttir, Þórarinn Gíslason, Jordan Cunningham, and Björg Þorleifsdóttir. "Is Icelanders' sleep duration getting shorter? Review on sleep duration and sleeping habits." Læknablaðið 108, no. 04 (April 6, 2022): 189–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.17992/lbl.2022.04.687.

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Sleep health promotion is an ever-increasing subject of public discourse in Iceland. Prominent claims made include that the duration of sleep among Icelanders is shortening, and that changing sleeping habits constitute a significant public health risk. Like many aspects of healthcare, commercial interests and sales hype can skew perception. This review article will seek to shed light on the scientific background of these statements. International meta-analysis suggests there has been little change in sleep duration in adults over the past century. The duration of childrens sleep has shortened, but the consequences of this are not yet well established. Significant shortening of the sleep of adult Icelanders has not been demonstrated. No difference in sleep duration is found between Icelandic adults and adolescents and comparable groups in neighboring countries. The measurement methods that are used when comparing sleep studies are variable and can lead to different results. Associations have been established between sleep duration and adverse health outcomes, both physical and mental, but causality has not yet been established, and potential important mediators of the relationships are discussed. The circadian sleep phase of Icelanders is generally delayed relative to neighbors, likely related to Iceland‘s diurnal length variation at sub-Arctic latitudes and longitudinal discrepancies between natural light and local time.

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Loftsdóttir, Kristín, and Már Wolfgang Mixa. "The opening of Costco in Iceland: Unexpected meanings of globalized phenomenon." Veftímaritið Stjórnmál og stjórnsýsla 13, no. 2 (December 14, 2017): 189. http://dx.doi.org/10.13177/irpa.a.2017.13.2.2.

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The multinational retailer, Costco, opened its first store in Iceland during spring 2017. Not only was the opening greatly anticipated but following the store opening, Costco became one of the key issues in the Icelandic media. Our analysis focuses on Costco’s opening from insights derived from theories of globalization of mobility, where we emphasize that discussions about Costco in Iceland cannot be separated from the post-crash atmosphere after the massive economic crash in 2008. Our perspective is particularly influenced by Tsing’s (2005) emphasis on the unpredictability of global phenomena that move around and transplant in a new context. Our analysis both contextualize Costco’s arrival within Iceland’s historical and social context and analyzes some of the main themes in the Icelandic media discussion during the opening. The dualistic opposition of ‘us’ (Icelanders) against ‘them’ (foreigners), which has been quite salient in Iceland, were largely invisible in discussions about Costco’s opening. Costco in Iceland was quickly incorporated into a discourse as a positive force against Icelandic corruption that started after the crash. The ‘us against them’ themes thus turned from being ‘Icelanders against foreigners’ into ‘the Icelandic population against Iceland’s elite retail sector.

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Birmingham, Karen. "Roche rewards Icelanders." Nature Medicine 4, no. 3 (March 1998): 261. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nm0398-261c.

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Arnason, E. "Genetic Heterogeneity of Icelanders." Annals of Human Genetics 67, no. 1 (January 2003): 5–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1469-1809.2003.00003.x.

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Gulcher, Jeff, Agnar Helgason, and Kári Stefánsson. "Genetic homogeneity of Icelanders." Nature Genetics 26, no. 4 (December 2000): 395. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/82508.

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SVEINSSON, KRISTJAN. "THE REFRACTION OF ICELANDERS." Acta Ophthalmologica 60, no. 5 (May 27, 2009): 779–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1755-3768.1982.tb06739.x.

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Michnowska, Agata. "Språklig purisme på Island – i fortid og nåtid." Studia Scandinavica, no. 7(27) (December 15, 2023): 145–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.26881/ss.2023.27.10.

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The article examines the history of the Icelandic linguistic purism (málhreinsunarstefna). For many years Icelanders have been known for their conservative attitude to any kind of foreign influence on their language. The country’s official language policy is to preserve the Icelandic language in an untouched form. To achieve that, Icelanders avoid borrowing words or grammatical structures from other languages. The study provides an outline of different undertakings aimed at preserving the Icelandic language, and presents the most important Icelandic organisations involved in language planning and key legal regulations in this area. It also describes Icelanders’ attitude to the impact of the English language.

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Ebenesersdóttir, S. Sunna, Marcela Sandoval-Velasco, Ellen D. Gunnarsdóttir, Anuradha Jagadeesan, Valdís B. Guðmundsdóttir, Elísabet L. Thordardóttir, Margrét S. Einarsdóttir, et al. "Ancient genomes from Iceland reveal the making of a human population." Science 360, no. 6392 (May 31, 2018): 1028–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.aar2625.

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Opportunities to directly study the founding of a human population and its subsequent evolutionary history are rare. Using genome sequence data from 27 ancient Icelanders, we demonstrate that they are a combination of Norse, Gaelic, and admixed individuals. We further show that these ancient Icelanders are markedly more similar to their source populations in Scandinavia and the British-Irish Isles than to contemporary Icelanders, who have been shaped by 1100 years of extensive genetic drift. Finally, we report evidence of unequal contributions from the ancient founders to the contemporary Icelandic gene pool. These results provide detailed insights into the making of a human population that has proven extraordinarily useful for the discovery of genotype-phenotype associations.

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Strauch, Dieter. "Strauch, Dieter, Konrad Maurer als Förderer isländischer Unabhängigkeit." Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte: Germanistische Abteilung 136, no. 1 (June 26, 2019): 396–410. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/zrgg-2019-0015.

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Abstract Konrad Maurer as a Backer of Icelandic Independence. Konrad Maurer, who was encouraged to study the ancient nordic sources as a student, became soon involved in Iceland's struggle for independence when he was in Denmark to prepare a journey for the purpose of studying the conditions of Icelandic living. His bonds of friendship to Jón Sigurđsson and other learned men and his journey to Iceland in 1858 opened his understanding of Icelandic political problems. In his several writings he fought for the freedom of Iceland with historical arguments. His productions – especially the book "Iceland" (1874) – made him wellknown to the Icelanders and sustained the Icelandic struggle well.

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Bertram, Laurie K. "“Eskimo” Immigrants and Colonial Soldiers: Icelandic Immigrants and the North-West Resistance, 1885." Canadian Historical Review 102, s1 (June 2021): s309—s338. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/chr-102-s1-022.

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How did marginalized and racialized ethnic immigrants transform themselves into active, armed colonial agents in nineteenth-century Western Canada? Approximately twenty Icelanders enlisted to fight Louis Riel’s forces during the North-West Resistance in 1885, just ten years following the arrival of Icelandic immigrants in present-day Manitoba. Forty more reportedly enlisted in an Icelandic-Canadian battalion to enforce the government’s victory in the fall. This public, armed stance of a group of Icelanders against Indigenous forces in 1885 is somewhat unexpected, since most Icelanders were relatively recent arrivals in the West and, in Winnipeg, members of the largely unskilled urban working class. Moreover, they were widely rumoured among Winnipeggers to be from a “blubber-eating race” and of “Eskimo” extraction; community accounts testify to the discrimination numerous early Icelanders faced in the city. These factors initially make Icelanders unexpected colonialists, particularly since nineteenth-century ethnic immigration and colonial suppression so often appear as separate processes in Canadian historiography. Indeed, this scholarship is characterized by an enduring belief that Western Canadian colonialism was a distinctly Anglo sin. Ethnic immigrants often appear in scholarly and popular histories as sharing a history of marginalization with Indigenous people that prevented migrants from taking part in colonial displacement. Proceeding from the neglected history of Icelandic enlistment in 1885 and new developments in Icelandic historiography, this article argues that rather than negating ethnic participation in Indigenous suppression, ethnic marginality and the class tensions it created could actually fuel participation in colonial campaigns, which promised immigrants upward mobility, access to state support, and land.

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LITOVSKIKH, Elena V. "WAYS TO IDENTIFY MEDIEVAL ICELANDERS." Nordic and Baltic Studies Review, no. 7 (2022): 5. http://dx.doi.org/10.15393/j103.art.2022.2221.

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Gyönki, Viktória. "Múltépítés és propaganda." Belvedere Meridionale 32, no. 1 (2020): 74–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.14232/belv.2020.1.7.

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Harald the hard-ruler (Old Norse: Haraldr harðráði) (1046–1066) was the last king of the socalled Viking Age. His life and deeds were recorded in numerous compilations of the Kings’ sagas, such as Heimskringla and Morkinskinna. Both of these texts depict him as a strong ruler and military leader. This portrait could not be complete however, without those shorter episodes in the Kings’ sagas between diff erent Icelanders and the king – mostly, it was Harald who had to compete with them. While Harald was famous for his smart tactics in byzantine service, he was not able to outperform Icelanders. This essay will focus on how Harald’s image was built up, sometimes based on historical or literary materials other than the Kings’ sagas. His special relationship with Icelanders was also expressed as he became a frequent character in the Icelandic Family Sagas.

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Ólafsdóttir, Rannveig, and Anna Dóra Sæþórsdóttir. "Public Perception of Wilderness in Iceland." Land 9, no. 4 (March 27, 2020): 99. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/land9040099.

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In recent years, there has been a gradually growing emphasis on the protection of wilderness in Iceland. This is highlighted in the current preparation of a new national park in the Icelandic central highlands, which will become Europe’s largest national parks. However, in order to protect the wilderness, a mutual understanding, both on what it is and where it is, is needed. This paper seeks to evaluate Icelanders’ perception and understanding of wilderness. Furthermore, to assess the value of wilderness for the Icelandic public and determine what lies behind the valuation, an online survey aided by maps from Google Earth and photographic scenarios of different landscapes was sent out to a nationally representative sample of Icelanders. The survey respondents mapped their perceived scope of Icelandic wilderness and furthermore chose between several landscape scenarios they thought most and least suited to their perception of wilderness. The results show that nearly all land located above the 300 m elevation line is perceived as wilderness, reflecting the country’s uninhabited highlands areas. The results also show that for the general public in Iceland it is chiefly an open and vast landscape, uninhabited areas, and the absence of anthropogenic features that bestow an area with the status of wilderness. The results demonstrate that any sign of anthropogenic interference, aside from archaeological remains, decrease Icelanders’ perception of wilderness. Moreover, despite being mostly categorized as urbanists or neutralists according to the purism scale, the majority of Icelanders still consider services, such as petrol stations, hotels, shops, restaurants, and diverse leisure services, along with energy production, to negatively impact the value of wilderness. Most Icelanders thus seem to regard wilderness as a valuable asset from the economic, cultural, and environmental perspectives, which underscores its uniqueness.

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Larsen, Mads. "Sealing new truths: Film adaptation as cultural capstone for 101 Reykjavík." Journal of Scandinavian Cinema 10, no. 1 (March 1, 2020): 25–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/jsca_00012_1.

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When fiction introduces controversial new perspectives, the novel and its film adaptation can play different roles in a cultural discussion. In the wake of globalization and Generation X, the novel 101 Reykjavík (Helgason [1996] 2002) suggested a sex-obsessed slacker identity that most Icelanders rejected or ignored. A later film adaptation (Kormákur, 2000) cut the sharpest edges off the story’s postmodern critique, lessened the protagonist’s immorality, made the narrative more conventional and offered an ending with communal reunification. The film’s success led Icelanders to revaluate not only the novel’s message but their own identity. 101 Reykjavík became the new truth about young Icelanders in the 1990s. This combination of a disputatious novel and a more conciliatory film adaptation is not uncommon with Nordic fiction. For socially ambitious filmmakers, retelling contentious stories in a form more fit for mass consumption can help them bring audiences and nations from old truths to new.

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Glanz, Berit. "Icelandic Nature and Global Evils – Concepts of Nature in Romantic Poetry and Nordic Noir TV Series from Iceland." European Journal of Scandinavian Studies 49, no. 1 (April 24, 2019): 128–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ejss-2019-0008.

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Abstract This paper takes concepts from spatial theory and globalization discourse and uses them in order to analyze the narrative function of descriptions of nature in romantic Icelandic poetry from the beginning of the 19th century and an Icelandic TV-Series from 2015. In Iceland’s romantic poetry of the early 19th century, especially in poems written by Bjarni Thorarensen, sublime nature is described as a form of guardian against foreign influences that threaten the way of living on the peripheral island. This romantic concept of Icelandic nature is closely connected to narrative patterns in the process of the Icelandic Nation-Building, as it characterizes Icelanders as simultaneously defined and protected by the harsh conditions on the island. The paper takes a comparative look at the underlying narrative concepts of nature in two of Bjarni Thorarensen’s poems and a recent Icelandic TV series, Baltasar Kormákur’s Ófærð (2015), that presents a different concept of Icelandic nature in its relation to a (threatening) global influence. The series depicts a globalized world in which crime does not only affect remote communities as an evil from the outside but as a local evil connected to forces on global scale. Nature as a narrative device in the TV series thus does not protect Icelanders from global forces, as it did in Bjarni Thorarensens poems in the early 19th century, but instead functions a catalyst that reveals the evil from the outside and the evil from within.

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Willson, Kendra. "A 150-Year Debate over Surnames vs. Patronymics in Iceland." Genealogy 7, no. 4 (November 14, 2023): 85. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/genealogy7040085.

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Iceland stands out in today’s Europe due to the fact that most Icelanders use patronymics rather than surnames. However, a small percentage of Icelanders do have surnames inherited in a fixed form. The first surnames were adopted in the 17th and 18th centuries. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, increasing numbers of Icelanders were taking up surnames, often Danicized or Latinized versions of Icelandic patronymics or place names. The practice became controversial with the rise of the independence movement, which was closely connected to linguistic purism. The use of surnames in Iceland has been debated since the 19th century. Whereas the other Nordic countries introduced legislation requiring citizens to have surnames, Iceland went in the opposite direction, forbidding new surnames starting in 1925. However, the surnames that were already in use were allowed to remain in circulation. This created an inequality which has haunted Icelandic name law discourse since. Having a surname in Iceland has often been linked with social prestige, and surnames have been perceived as a limited good. Since the 1990s, the fraction of Icelanders with surnames has increased through immigration and some liberalizations in the rules regarding the inheritance of existing Icelandic surnames. In the name of gender equity, surnames can be inherited along any line, not only patrilineal. Since 1996, immigrants seeking Icelandic citizenship are no longer required to change their names, and their children can inherit their surnames. The category of millinöfn (middle name), surname-like names that are not inflected for gender, was introduced in the 1996 law; some Icelanders with millinöfn use them as surnames in daily life even if they officially have patronymics. Despite the expansion in eligibility to take surnames, the basic principle that no new Icelandic surnames are allowed remains in the law and remains a point of contention. Many of the same themes—individual freedom vs. the preservation of cultural heritage, national vs. international orientation, gender equity—have recurred in the discourse over more than a century, reframed in the context of contemporary cultural values at any given time.

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Hauksson, Pétur. "Icelanders opt out of genetic database." Nature 400, no. 6746 (August 19, 1999): 707–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/23341.

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Sigurdsson, Skúli. "Icelanders opt out of genetic database." Nature 400, no. 6746 (August 1999): 708. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/23341-c1.

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Úlfarsson, Jakob, Sigurör Guomundsson, Birgitta BirgisdÓAttir, J. Matthias Kjeld, and ÓAlafur Jensson. "Selective Serum IgA Deficiency in Icelanders." Acta Medica Scandinavica 211, no. 6 (April 24, 2009): 481–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.0954-6820.1982.tb01986.x.

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Heffernan, Timothy. "Crisis and Belonging: Protest Voices and Empathic Solidarity in Post-Economic Collapse Iceland." Religions 11, no. 1 (January 1, 2020): 22. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel11010022.

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This article explores the politics of belonging in Iceland in the context of an ethico-political project focused around increased transparency following the country’s 2008 banking collapse. By employing literature on autochthony (i.e., a return to, and interpretation of, “the local”), it examines the tensions that are reignited within and between nation-states during economic crisis. Through ethnography with ordinary Icelanders and the members of two protest movements, this research shows how Icelanders are cultivating a public voice to navigate the political constraints of crisis and reshaping Icelanders’ international identity from below in the wake of the collapse. To this end, the article accounts for the role of populist politics in re-embedding Iceland into the European social imaginary as an economically responsible and egalitarian nation. It then turns to highlight the push for meaningful democratic reform through collaborative, legislative exchange between the government and the people that resulted in a new—if not actually implemented—constitution. By exploring protest culture in Iceland, the article highlights the importance of public witnessing and empathic solidarity in building intercultural relations in an era of globalized finance and politics.

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Lethbridge, Emily. "An Introduction to the Sagas of Icelanders." Scandinavian Studies 93, no. 3 (October 1, 2021): 439–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/scanstud.93.3.0439.

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Kellogg, Greg, Bolli Thorsson, Ying Cai, Robert Wisotzkey, Andrew Pollock, Matthew Akana, Rebecca Fox, et al. "Molecular screening of familial hypercholesterolemia in Icelanders." Scandinavian Journal of Clinical and Laboratory Investigation 80, no. 6 (July 24, 2020): 508–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00365513.2020.1795919.

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Árnason, Einar, Hlynur Sigurgíslason, and Eiríkur Benedikz. "Genetic homogeneity of Icelanders: fact or fiction?" Nature Genetics 25, no. 4 (August 2000): 373–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/78036.

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COTT, JERRY, and JOSEPH R. HIBBELN. "Lack of Seasonal Mood Change in Icelanders." American Journal of Psychiatry 158, no. 2 (February 2001): 328. http://dx.doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.158.2.328.

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ÆGisdóTtir, StefanÍA, and Lawrence H. Gerstein. "Icelanders’ and U.S. Nationals’ Expectations about Counseling." Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology 35, no. 6 (November 2004): 734–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0022022104270115.

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Thyroff, Anastasia. "Ode to Alda." Marketing Theory 20, no. 2 (December 30, 2019): 185–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1470593119897774.

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Iceland, with a small population of approximately 340,000, is a mostly uninhabited island complete with waterfalls, geysers, fjords, black-sand beaches, volcanos, sheep, and horses. The original Viking settlers did not have a native population or large predators to battle in Iceland upon arrival but quickly became attuned to ancient magic and the Huldufólk (hidden people) concealed in the natural features of the island. The natural elements combined with geographic isolation makes Iceland ripe with untouched beauty and deep-rooted cultural myths—ones that modern tourists eagerly share on social media, perpetuating the tourism demand. Now, once a traditional fishing economy, Iceland’s tourism economy dominates, seeing an increase of 20–30 percent in visitors each year since 2010. On any given year, tourists far outnumber Icelanders nearly six-to-one. These are the tales of the tourism assemblages and tensions surrounding Alda, a resident of the remote Westfjords in Iceland.

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Loftsdóttir, Kristín. "Finding a place in the world." Focaal 2018, no. 80 (March 1, 2018): 63–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/fcl.2018.800105.

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The economic crash in Iceland created a sense of social and political collapse that extended far beyond the economic realm. Calls for a “New Iceland” were invoked, where the Icelandic political arena would be “cleaned” and reimagined in drastic ways. In this article, I explore how ideas circulating in the wider European region about how Icelanders dealt exceptionally well with the crisis not only failed to reflect the lived effects of the collapse but also echoed long-standing nationalist ideals of Icelanders’ imagined reality of themselves. I show how nation branding in Iceland after 2010 added to the conception that Iceland dealt with the crisis in an exceptional way, and I critically ask why Iceland received such a positive depiction in the international media.

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Haraldsson, Erlendur. "Survey of Claimed Encounters with the Dead." OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying 19, no. 2 (October 1989): 103–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.2190/nuyd-ax5d-lp2c-nux5.

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In a national survey in Iceland, 31 percent of respondents reported “having perceived the presence of a deceased person.” A multinational Gallup survey conducted in sixteen western countries showed widespread claims of personal contacts with the dead, as well as, considerable national differences. Such experiences were reported most frequently by Icelanders and Italians whereas Norwegians and Danes, considered culturally closest to Icelanders, reported the lowest incidence (9%). In the Iceland survey, interviews were conducted with 127 persons on the nature of these experiences, their relationship with the deceased, the conditions under which these experiences occurred, and various characteristics of the interviewees, as well as, the deceased persons. Attempts were made to test some theories of what may elicit such experiences.

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Jakobsson, Sverrir. "Conversion and Cultural Memory in Medieval Iceland." Church History 88, no. 1 (March 2019): 1–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0009640719000507.

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Christianization was an important and traumatic event that became embedded in the cultural memory of Icelanders. Through the reconstruction of this event in historical narratives, there was an ongoing debate on the identity of Icelanders as a group as the cultural heritage of this group was institutionalized and cultivated by particular organizations and individuals. This is reflected in very different emphasis on individual agents in this process, which can be found in various historical works composed between 1070 and 1330. The general trend is that the narrative became more inclusive for a larger group with each major version, as the leading role passed from the Archbishop to a select group of few leading families to a larger group including leaders from all parts of Iceland and, finally, to the general population, the humble as well as the mighty.

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Phelpstead, Carl. "Size Matters: Penile Problems in Sagas of Icelanders." Exemplaria 19, no. 3 (November 2007): 420–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/175330707x237230.

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Loewen, Royden. "Icelanders in North America: The First Settlers (review)." Canadian Historical Review 85, no. 3 (2004): 610–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/can.2004.0112.

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Jonasson, F., and K. Thordarson. "Ophthalmic services for 0-49 year old Icelanders." Acta Ophthalmologica 68, S195 (May 28, 2009): 99–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1755-3768.1990.tb01970.x.

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Richter, Svend, and Sigfus Thor Eliasson. "Possible Causes of Tooth Wear in Medieval Icelanders." Universal Journal of Medical Science 4, no. 3 (May 2016): 94–101. http://dx.doi.org/10.13189/ujmsj.2016.040303.

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Friđriksdóttir, Jóhanna Katrín. "Men and Masculinities in the Sagas of Icelanders." Journal of English and Germanic Philology 121, no. 3 (July 1, 2022): 385–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/1945662x.121.3.06.

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Zink, Florian, Simon N. Stacey, Gudmundur L. Norddahl, Michael L. Frigge, Olafur T. Magnusson, Ingileif Jonsdottir, Thorgeir E. Thorgeirsson, et al. "Clonal hematopoiesis, with and without candidate driver mutations, is common in the elderly." Blood 130, no. 6 (August 10, 2017): 742–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1182/blood-2017-02-769869.

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Key Points Whole-genome sequencing of 11 262 Icelanders reveals that clonal hematopoiesis is very common in the elderly. Somatic mutation of some genes is strongly associated with clonal hematopoiesis, but in most cases, no driver mutations were evident.

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Kong, Augustine, Michael L. Frigge, Gudmar Thorleifsson, Hreinn Stefansson, Alexander I. Young, Florian Zink, Gudrun A. Jonsdottir, et al. "Selection against variants in the genome associated with educational attainment." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 114, no. 5 (January 17, 2017): E727—E732. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1612113114.

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Epidemiological and genetic association studies show that genetics play an important role in the attainment of education. Here, we investigate the effect of this genetic component on the reproductive history of 109,120 Icelanders and the consequent impact on the gene pool over time. We show that an educational attainment polygenic score, POLYEDU,constructed from results of a recent study is associated with delayed reproduction (P< 10−100) and fewer children overall. The effect is stronger for women and remains highly significant after adjusting for educational attainment. Based on 129,808 Icelanders born between 1910 and 1990, we find that the average POLYEDUhas been declining at a rate of ∼0.010 standard units per decade, which is substantial on an evolutionary timescale. Most importantly, because POLYEDUonly captures a fraction of the overall underlying genetic component the latter could be declining at a rate that is two to three times faster.

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Thorbergsson, Magnus Thor. "Being European." Nordic Theatre Studies 25, no. 1 (November 15, 2018): 22–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/nts.v25i1.110895.

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During the campaign for Iceland’s independence in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, theatre was considered an important site for the representation of the nation. Emphasis was placed on producing and staging local plays dealing with the nation’s folklore, myths and history, thereby strengthening a sense of the roots of national identity. The article examines the longing for a representation of the nation in late nineteenth-century theatre as well as the attempts of the Reykjavik Theatre Company to stage the nation during theso-called ‘Icelandic Period’ (1907-20), before analyzing the distinctive changes in the company’s repertoire following the decision of the Icelandic parliament to build a national theatre in 1923. The staging of the nation, which had been dominated by nineteenth-century cultural nationalism, took a turn in the late 1920s towards representing the nation as a member of European metropolitan culture through an increased focus on international contemporary drama, bourgeois bedroom farce and classical drama. The image of the modern Icelanders, as represented on the stage in the 1920s, was that of the middle-class bourgeoisie.

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Thorbergsson, Magnus Thor. "Being European." Nordic Theatre Studies 25, no. 1 (November 15, 2018): 22–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/nts.v25i1.110895.

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During the campaign for Iceland’s independence in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, theatre was considered an important site for the representation of the nation. Emphasis was placed on producing and staging local plays dealing with the nation’s folklore, myths and history, thereby strengthening a sense of the roots of national identity. The article examines the longing for a representation of the nation in late nineteenth-century theatre as well as the attempts of the Reykjavik Theatre Company to stage the nation during theso-called ‘Icelandic Period’ (1907-20), before analyzing the distinctive changes in the company’s repertoire following the decision of the Icelandic parliament to build a national theatre in 1923. The staging of the nation, which had been dominated by nineteenth-century cultural nationalism, took a turn in the late 1920s towards representing the nation as a member of European metropolitan culture through an increased focus on international contemporary drama, bourgeois bedroom farce and classical drama. The image of the modern Icelanders, as represented on the stage in the 1920s, was that of the middle-class bourgeoisie.

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Bryant, Murray, and Throstur Olaf Sigurjonsson. "Iceland’s financial crisis 2008: Not a normal accident." Journal of Governance and Regulation 11, no. 4, special issue (2022): 354–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.22495/jgrv11i4siart16.

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The failure of 97% of Iceland’s financial system in October 2008, was not solely due to the tight coupling and complexity of the financial system but was the result of bankers and their owners, who took actions that violated system rules and regulations so that complete system failure was inevitable. Regulators were silent during such activities. Actions taken by bankers, and others, have been termed agentic behaviour — willful violation of system rules and regulations in a way that brings the entire system down (Perrow, 2010). This paper demonstrates via a case study that agentic behaviour was facilitated by a set of institutions, actors, Icelanders, and underlying context; which we term enablers. The role of enablers extends the concept of agentic behaviour. Such conduct examines bad behaviour, allows systemic analysis, and points to several factors that extend financial crises beyond Iceland. In a brief period, Iceland went from statism to neoliberalism with profound ill effects on its financial system, its public institutions along with its relationships with other nations.

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Hawkins, Mary, and Helena Onnudottir. "Land, Nation and Tourist." Anthropological Journal of European Cultures 26, no. 2 (September 1, 2017): 110–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/ajec.2017.260208.

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Land is central to Icelandic identity. It is birthright, heritage, a site of memory and belonging; mountains and fjords are the stuff on which Icelandic dreams are made. Land is made culture through story and song, told at family gatherings, and sung at schools and on hiking trips. Icelandic identity was built on this imagining, coupled to a vision of Icelanders as an exceptional people, a Viking race. The events of the Global Financial Crisis (GFC), which exposed institutional corruption, caused many Icelanders to doubt the Viking image. At the same time, Iceland has been invaded by tourists. This article, based on participant observation, a survey and interviews, argues that one significant effect of the post-GFC foreign invasion has been a transformation of the cultural and moral order in Iceland, away from the boasting Viking and towards a new set of values within which land and nature occupy an even more central place.

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McVitty, Amanda. "Men and Masculinities in the Sagas of the Icelanders." Medieval Feminist Forum 56, no. 2 (March 25, 2021): 209–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.17077/1536-8742.2260.

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Richter, Svend, and Sigfus Thor Eliasson. "Enamel erosion and mechanical tooth wear in medieval Icelanders." Acta Odontologica Scandinavica 74, no. 3 (September 10, 2015): 186–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/00016357.2015.1075586.

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Waage, Edda R. H. "Landscape in the sagas of Icelanders: The concepts oflandandlandsleg." Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift - Norwegian Journal of Geography 66, no. 4 (September 2012): 177–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00291951.2012.707986.

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Nielsen Gremaud, Ann-Sofie. "Krænkelse, moderstolthed og vrede islændinge." K&K - Kultur og Klasse 50, no. 133 (June 6, 2022): 35–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/kok.v50i133.132740.

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In the early summer of 1905, a colonial exhibition opened in the Tivoli Gardens in Copenhagen, where visitors could meet people and see objects from more distant parts of the Danish kingdom: the West Indies, Greenland, the Faroe Islands and Iceland. Both before and during the exhibition, a dispute arose in the Danish and Icelandic media about the reasonableness of Iceland being part of such a setting. The disagreement was about the representational logic that was the foundation of the exhibition, about the title of the exhibition, and about whether Iceland belonged in the “company” that the other countries constituted. In this article, the author draws attention to the emotionality that characterized the debate that Danish and Icelandic writers took part in. The examples show how the Icelanders’ protests against the exhibition are framed as unreasonably emotional and the Icelanders as sensitive and ungrateful. Thus, the author argues that there are similarities with the strategies used in contemporary debates about reasonable responses to violations and insults in Scandinavia.

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Hermann, Pernille. "Islændingesagaer og erindring." K&K - Kultur og Klasse 42, no. 118 (December 30, 2014): 245–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/kok.v42i118.19847.

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Based on the assumption that the longstanding discussion about history/fiction has exhausted itself, this article suggests an alternative approach to the sagas of Icelanders. It approaches the sagas from a memory perspective and illustrates how two concepts of memory: cultural memory and artificial memory, provide us with useful methodological tools for opening new dimensions of saga narratives.

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Karlsson, Jon S. "Self-reports of Psychological Distress in Connection with Various Degrees of Visual Impairment." Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness 92, no. 7 (July 1998): 483–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0145482x9809200708.

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This article describes a study of the relationship between the degrees of visual impairment and self-reports of psychological distress by 167 Icelanders aged 18-69 and 100 aged 70–97 who were blind or had low vision. The study found that self-reports of psychological distress and perceptions of unhappiness vary significantly with the degree of visual impairment.

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Sayers, William. "Saints and Their Legacies in Medieval Iceland, ed. Dario Bullitta and Kirsten Wolf. Studies in Old Norse Literature, 9. Woodbridge: D. S. Brewer, 2021, xvi, 383 pp." Mediaevistik 35, no. 1 (January 1, 2022): 303–4. http://dx.doi.org/10.3726/med.2022.01.20.

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Abstract By the thirteenth century, when the best-known sagas of Icelanders had been committed to print thanks to Latin and vernacular literacy, the most prosperous Icelandic farms had their own Church, a patron saint, and, in a substantial number of cases, a vernacular life of their patron, whether native- or foreign-born. This dimension of medieval Icelandic life was disregarded in the Íslenzk fornrit editing project which began in 1933. What came to be called the “nativist” perspective gave pride of place to domestic narratives of the centuries after the settlement of the island, seeing the sagas of Icelanders, as they came to be known, as literarily styled reflections of an historical past. It was not until 1998 that sagas of native Icelandic bishops found a place in the ÏF series and even today the vernacular lives and miracles of both the native and non-Icelandic saints remain unrepresented there. Beyond this editorial restriction, the study of Old Norse hagiography has been hampered by a limited number of well edited texts by the small but devoted collegium of scholars, several represented in the volume under review, which seeks to redress this critical imbalance.

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Wolf, Kirsten. "Somatic Semiotics: Emotion and the Human Face in the Sagas andÞættirof Icelanders." Traditio 69 (2014): 125–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0362152900001938.

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The human face has the capacity to generate expressions associated with a wide range of affective states. Despite the fact that there are few words to describe human facial behaviors, the facial muscles allow for more than a thousand different facial appearances. Some examples of feelings that can be expressed are anger, concentration, contempt, excitement, nervousness, and surprise. Regardless of culture or language, the same expressions are associated with the same emotions and vary only in intensity. Using modern psychological analyses as a point of departure, this essay examines descriptions of human facial expressions as well as such bodily “symptoms” as flushing, turning pale, and weeping in Old Norse-Icelandic literature. The aim is to analyze the manner in which facial signs are used as a means of non-verbal communication to convey the impression of an individual's internal state to observers. More specifically, this essay seeks to determine when and why characters in these works are described as expressing particular facial emotions and, especially, the range of emotions expressed. The Sagas andþættirof Icelanders are in the forefront of the analysis and yield well over one hundred references to human facial expression and color. The examples show that through gaze, smiling, weeping, brows that are raised or knitted, and coloration, the Sagas andþættirof Icelanders tell of happiness or amusement, pleasant and unpleasant surprise, fear, anger, rage, sadness, interest, concern, and even mixed emotions for which language has no words. The Sagas andþættirof Icelanders may be reticent in talking about emotions and poor in emotional vocabulary, but this poverty is compensated for by making facial expressions signifiers of emotion. This essay makes clear that the works are less emotionally barren than often supposed. It also shows that our understanding of Old Norse-Icelandic “somatic semiotics” may well depend on the universality of facial expressions and that culture-specific “display rules” or “elicitors” are virtually nonexistent.

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Markelova, O. A. "RECEPTION OF SAGAS OF ICELANDERS IN MODERN ICELANDIC HISTORICAL NOVELS." Учёные записки Петрозаводского государственного университета 180, no. 3 (March 2019): 28–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.15393/uchz.art.2019.305.

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Unnithan, N. Prabha, Helgi Gunnlaugsson, and John F. Galliher. "Wayward Icelanders: Punishment, Boundary Maintenance, and the Creation of Crime." Contemporary Sociology 31, no. 1 (January 2002): 82. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3089443.

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