Iceland is unique among European societies in having been founded as late as the Viking Age and in having copious written and archaeological sources about its origin. Gunnar Karlsson, that country's premier historian, chronicles the age of the Sagas, consulting them to describe an era without a monarch or central authority. Equating this prosperous time with the golden age of antiquity in world history, Karlsson then marks a correspondence between the Dark Ages of Europe and Iceland's "dreary period", which started with the loss of political independence in the late thirteenth century and culminated with an epoch of poverty and humility, especially during the early Modern Age.Iceland's renaissance came about with the successful struggle for independence in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and with the industrial and technical modernization of the first half of the twentieth century. Karlsson describes the rise of nationalism as Iceland's mostly poor peasants set about breaking with Denmark, and he shows how Iceland in the twentieth century slowly caught up economically with its European neighbors.

The History of Iceland

History

Gunnar Karlsson

Europe

Univ of Minnesota Pr

This volume recounts the history of a society on the margin of Europe as well as on the margin of reaching the size and wealth of a proper state - Iceland.

Iceland's 1100 years: The history of a marginal society

MAL OG MENNING

<p>This volume recounts the history of a society on the margin of Europe as well as on the margin of reaching the size and wealth of a proper state - Iceland.</p>

Iceland's 1100 Years : The History of a Marginal Society

C. Hurst & Co. Publishers Ltd.

Kóngsins menn: Ágrip af Íslandssögu milli 1550 og 1830 (Icelandic Edition)

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Samband við miðaldir: Námsbók í íslenskri miðaldasögu um 870-1550 og sagnfræðilegum aðferðum (Icelandic Edition)

<p>The history of Iceland spans just over 1100 years, from the settlement of the country in the 9th century to the modern republic of today. This book gives a concise, clear and vivid overview of Icelandic history through these centuries, the main events, the people and their way of life, in times of glory and in times of degradation and natural disaster.</p>

Brief History of Iceland

Mal og menning/Forlagid

A Brief History of Iceland 2012

The Settlement of Iceland

Að læra af sögu: Greinasafn um sögunám (Ritsafn Sagnfræðistofnunar) (Icelandic Edition)

Sagnfræðistofnun, Háskóla Íslands

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