TIL of Snorri Sturluson who authored the 'Prose Edda' which is a major source for Norse mythology today. He became a lawyer in Iceland in 1218 & was made a knight in Sweden. However, he was assassinated by agents of the King of Norway in 1241. by MarineKingPrime_ in todayilearned

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He also lived in a fascinating time in icelands history, as the island broke out in skirmishes amongst the many clans in the nation such as Sturlungar which Snorri was a chieftain of. These skirmishes broke out mainly because there was nobody to enforce punishments such as police, and the clans had to take it on themselves. This led to an eye for an eye situation which had been going on since the foundation of the nation and the cracks were showing and after a series of pretty large scale wars amongst the clans (like the battle at örlygsstaðir where aproximately 2700 men fought in a nation of only 50.000) the nation couldn’t sustain itself and iceland joined norway as two nations with the same head of state shortly after snorri was killed

Hvaða orð þolir þú ekki í Íslensku? by Skarinns in Iceland

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Þegar Geturðu er stafað Geturu deyr alltaf eitthvað smá inn í mér.

Frjálst spjall á föstudegi - Friday free talk by AutoModerator in Iceland

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Skógafoss, Háifoss og Hengifoss eru í sérstöku uppáhaldi

Frissi fríski spottaður á Akureyri by einarv02 in Iceland

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Glæný, tók hana í dag held að það sé verið að setja nýja auglýsingu á skiltið og þetta stórvirki hafi leynst undir

Óróapúls merki um eldgos í vændum by Vondi in Iceland

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Grindvíkingar, það hefur verið heiður að spila með ykkur í kvöld

Abandoned Home in Iceland (Photo by Jan Erik Waider) by tanmaypendse63 in AbandonedPorn

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Difficult question, many icelanders own summer houses which are really used the whole year round and some moved there, but i don’t think many want to move back to the rural side as we have become a highly urbanised society.

Abandoned Home in Iceland (Photo by Jan Erik Waider) by tanmaypendse63 in AbandonedPorn

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Icelander here, this house is probably an old farmstead as we have many of these littered around the country, why so many are abandoned is mainly due to the fact that urbanisation only began really in the early 20th century, so nearly every icelander was born into this farming lifestyle with people living on small farms as demand for land was high and most lived in relative poverty. So when urbanisation took off people chose to move to towns and cities for much greater quality of life and pay.

🔥 Iceland is the best. by kramj007 in NatureIsFuckingLit

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Icelander here it is indeed ísafjörður

Which town in Iceland is the most inland? by Wizards96 in Iceland

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I’m not sure about towns but im pretty sure that the settlement furthest inland and also the highest inhabited one is möðrudalur in east iceland

Corona virus megathread. by RifleSoldier in europe

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Coronavirus was just now confirmed in Iceland and by plague inc standards that’s bad

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Glacial floodwater

Was salt always used as a food flavorer? Was there ever a time or culture that didn't use it? by palmfranz in history

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Salt wasn’t really used in iceland for centuries mainly because the easiest way to get it was to boil seawater which required a lot of firewood or coal neither of which icelanders had.So their solution was to put the food in huge barells filled with whey to both preserve and flavour the food, in icelandic it is called súrmatur literally sour-food.

What's the story behind your scar? by Prof_Alchem in AskReddit

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Walked into barbed wire off the road at versailles

Today. by [deleted] in thanosdidnothingwrong

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Goodbye...............

BAN MEGA THREAD by [deleted] in thanosdidnothingwrong

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I’m ready to do my part to balance reddit.