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Icelandic, a North Germanic language, is the official language of Iceland (de facto; the laws are silent about the issue). Icelandic has inflectional grammar comparable to Latin, Ancient Greek, more closely to Old English and practically identical to Old Norse. Old Icelandic literature can be divided into several categories.
Immigration to Iceland rose rapidly in the late twentieth century, encouraged by Iceland's accession to the European Economic Area in 1994, its entry into the Schengen Agreement in 2001, and the country's economic boom in the early twenty-first century. The largest ethnic minority is Poles, who are about a third of the immigrant population. In ...
The national anthem of Iceland is "Lofsöngur", composed by Matthías Jochumsson and Sveinbjörn Sveinbjörnsson. [7] The song was written in 1874, when Iceland celebrated the one thousandth anniversary of settlement on the island. It was in the form of a hymn, first published under the title A Hymn in Commemoration of Iceland's Thousand Years.
Icelandic people with disabilities (2 C, 10 P) E. Icelandic Esperantists (4 P) F. Icelandic families (3 C, 1 P) Fictional Icelandic people (1 C, 7 P) I. Kings of ...
Icelandic people of Jewish descent (2 C, 3 P) Icelandic Jews (2 P) K. Icelandic people of Kenyan descent (1 P) Icelandic people of Kurdish descent (1 P) L.
Linda Bennett, an English-Icelandic clothing designer and entrepreneur. Björk, an Icelandic singer, living in the United States; Helgi Daníelsson, a football player from Iceland, who currently plays for Swedish club AIK. Henry Einarson, a politician in Manitoba, Canada. Magnus Eliason, a founding member of the Co-Operative Commonwealth ...
Icelandic people by descent (54 C) E. Ethnic groups in Iceland (2 C, 4 P) Expatriates in Iceland (78 C, 1 P) I. Immigrants to Iceland (16 C, 7 P)
Icelandic people by occupation and century (8 C)-People from Reykjavík by occupation (9 C) * Lists of Icelandic people by occupation (3 C, 10 P) +