Captured Quote by Keith Henson

“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

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

— Michael Lewis

Icelandic people are inbred. And they have a sense of themselves as genetically special, and a history of risk-taking because they make their living…

— Michael Lewis

Up in the north of Scotland, a lot of the villages are completely Viking names. A lot of Vikings came down and settled in…

— Gerard Butler

Now 10 percent of this population [in Iceland] of 330,000 people were born elsewhere - Polish, North Africans, Europeans, Americans - people are coming…

— Sjon

Generally speaking, I don't think people know a great deal about the Viking culture, apart from the label that is usually attached to them,…

— Gabriel Byrne

I visited the archeological site at the northern tip of Newfoundland. There is no question about it. It has been definitely determined that the…

— Russell Freedman

They [some countries] borrowed money to go acquire things, Indian power plants and Danish newspapers and British soccer teams. And they did it willy-nilly,…

— Michael Lewis

Viking women were able to rule kingdoms, divorce husbands, own land; and Vikings were very progressive in terms of the rights of women.

— Gabriel Byrne

One of the few things that can be said for certain about Europe's prehistoric peoples is that they all came from somewhere else.

— Norman Davies

It was a great joy for me to develop a strong female character in the spirit of an Icelandic woman. Icelandic women tend to…

— Anita Briem

“The main body of Vikings were given lands in the Seine basin in exchange for protecting Paris. They settled into northern France and within…

— Mark Kurlansky