Stúdentspróf (Iceland) · History
Settlement, commonwealth and foreign rule
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- Which Norwegian-born man is traditionally named as the first settler of Iceland, arriving around 874?
- Which book, written in the early twelfth century by Ari the Learned, is an early history of Iceland?
- Which man, according to tradition, named the island Iceland after seeing a fjord full of drift ice?
- Which Icelandic explorer founded the first Norse settlement in Greenland around 985?
- Which son of Eiríkr the Red is credited with reaching North America around the year 1000?
- In which year did the Althing decide that all Icelanders should adopt Christianity, according to tradition?
- Who was the lawspeaker who decided the dispute over religion at the Althing in the year 1000?
- What was the function of the lawspeaker (lögsögumaður) at the Althing?
- Which office in the commonwealth was held by chieftains who had local authority?
- Which family-based civil war period of the thirteenth century is called the Age of the Sturlungs?
- Which Icelandic writer and chieftain was killed in 1241 on the orders of the Norwegian king Hákon?
- Which monarchy ruled Iceland after Norway and Denmark united under one crown in 1397 in the Kalmar Union?
- In which year was the Reformation imposed in Iceland, when Bishop Jón Arason was executed?
- Which disease killed a large share of the Icelandic population in 1402-1404?
- Which volcanic eruption in 1783 caused the Mist Hardships that killed about a fifth of the population?
- Which Danish official in 1800 abolished the Althing, which had been losing its power?
- In which year was the Althing re-established as a consultative assembly?
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