On 1 December 1918, the Icelandic state flag (Ríkisfáni) was hoisted for the first time in front of the Government Offices in Reykjavík. A hundred years later, Iceland celebrates 100 years of sovereignty. The process leading to Iceland’s sovereignty and later…
Eggert Ólafsson (December 1, 1726 – May 30, 1768) was a poet, a writer and naturalist from Svefneyjar islands in the northwest of Iceland. He studied natural sciences, classics, grammar, law and agriculture at the University of Copenhagen and was…