The Iceland saga
The Iceland saga
Eleven centuries ago, the westward wave of Scandinavian migration reached a new land, just south of the Arctic Circle, where ice contended with fire, where glaciers, volcanoes and boiling springs seemed to hurl defiance at man and at each other. This was Iceland.
In this issue of the Unesco Courier we recount the saga of the Icelandic people's unending struggle with a hostile climate, the splendours of the literary heritage of a unique culture, and the beauty and geological contrasts of a country still shrouded in legend but in which myth has blended into the modernity of the 20th century.