2、fsöngur>GyrfalconGeographyIceland,officiallytheRepublicofIceland,islocatedintheNorthAtlanticOceanjustsouthoftheArcticCircle,whichpassesthroughthesmallislandofGrímseyoffIceland'snortherncoast,butnotthroughmainlandIceland.IcelandDemograpgicsThenum
3、berofthenation’spopulationis319,000.Mostofthemare Icelanders.Theofficiallanguageis Icelandic, Englishisusedasa commonlanguage. Nearly 85.4% of peoplebelievein theChristian Lutheran.Language•TheofficiallanguageisIcelandic.•Englishisusedasa commonlangu
4、age.Icelanders useEnglish morefrequentlythan theotherNordic countries. Icelandersare always talentfor learninglanguages,many Icelanderscan alsospeak Danish,Norwegian, German andmanyother languagesexceptEnglish.History•Inthelate8thcentury,Irishmonks f
5、irst movedto Iceland.Inthesecondhalfof9thcentury, Norwaybeganto immigranttoIceland.In930,theFederal Parliamentand Icelandwasestablished .•In1262,Icelandyielded toNorway.•In1380 ,Norway andIcelandaretogetherdominatedby Danish.In1904,Icelandgained anin
6、ternal self-government.History•OnJune161944,theUnionofIcelandandDanwasofficiallyannouncedthedissolution. onthe17th,theRepublicofIceland wasestablished .•In1918,IcelandandDan signed thefederal lawthatrequired theice asasovereign nation,but Dan still c
7、ontroled foreignaffairs.•In1940,Denmark wasoccupiedbyGermany,TherelationshipbetweenDanishandIcelandwasinterrupted. Intheyear,British stationedintoIceland,AndtheAmericanreplacedtheroleof theBritish military inthenextyear.•In1918,IcelandandDan signed t
8、hefederal lawthatrequired theice asasovereign nation,but Dan still controled foreignaffairs.•In1940,Denmark wasoccupiedbyGermany,TherelationshipbetweenDanishandIcelandwasinterrupted. Inthesameyear,British stationedintoIceland,andtheAmericanreplacedth
