Tuesday 6 November 2018

The Icelandic Commonwealth Or The Icelandic Free State

The Icelandic Commonwealth or the Icelandic Free State (Icelandic: Þjóðveldið) was the state existing in Iceland between the establishment of the Althing in 930 and the pledge of fealty to the Norwegian king in 1262......
It was initially established by a public consisting largely of recent immigrants from Norway who had fled the unification of that country under King Harald Fairhair

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