"Military History of Iceland " Topic

"The martial history of Iceland is confined to a few brief chapters for most historians, who rather easily define that there is no martial history of Iceland! In some ways this is true because Iceland has never maintained a standing army, and yet its peoples, Norse-Dano Viking ancestors fought to first conquer and then later to defend the island nation that became Iceland.

This bitterly cold & breath taking land in the middle of the North Atlantic was founded rather peacefully by the blood thirsty Norwegian-Danish Vikings who first inhabited the island, building homes, farms and fishing villages from 874 to the mid 900's. During the same period these warrior-adventurers inhabited Greenland and later parts of North America (Canada, and maybe even America) for a time, while many more pillaged Europe's coastal cities.

For the rest of the medieval age until the conversion of seemingly all of Iceland to Lutheran Christianity by the Danes, Icelandic military history was defined by the blood feuds, clan rivalry, and farm raids of the Viking lords and their Berserker warriors among the feudal structures of Viking culture. Chronicled in the proto-fictional histories know collectively as the Icelandic Sagas…"
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Amicalement
Armand

How to avoid war: live in a place nobody else wants.

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Amicalement
Armand

Let's Invade Bermuda???