Country Quote by Halldór Laxness

Fifteen hundred years is ample time in which to lose mutual comprehension. Iceland was colonized by the Norwegians at the end of the ninth…

— Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza

“Yet the ailment is virtually nonexistent in Iceland. There is a higher prevalence of the disorder in the northeastern United States than in Iceland.…

— Eric Weiner

“Island populations often breed strange and interesting genomes. Because Iceland is so small, with a precisely known chronology of inhabitation to the present day,…

— Adam Rutherford

For us Icelanders, the Sagas are like the Bible, only much better.

— Hallgrimur Helgason

“Paganism, it turns out, was the original Icelandic religion before a mass conversion in the year 1000. That was largely seen as a business…

— Eric Weiner

We must become Icelanders in soccer, Israelis in defending our land, Japanese in technology.

— Volodymyr Zelensky

“Icelanders are among the most inbred human beings on earth—geneticists often use them for research.”

— Michael Lewis

There is this stereotype of Icelanders all believing in spirits, and I've played up to that a bit in interviews.

— Bjork

We Icelanders are an excellent animal model for humans. This is exactly the way you find common disease genes.

— Kari Stefansson

“Maybe because there are so few Icelanders in the world, we know next to nothing about them. We assume they are more or less…

— Michael Lewis

Icelanders love to speak English. Their English is a joy to hear because of how colloquial and idiomatic it is, but they appreciate your…

— John Grant

I always had a feeling, for example, that there should be something from Verdi's "Requiem" in the film. You hear it when you see…

— Werner Herzog