Tyler Barrott

Tyler is a Doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Oslo's Centre for Development and the Environment. You can read more about him here.

Contributions to nordics.info

Even though Iceland remained under Danish rule, the Icelandic ‘Althing’ was restored in 1845 as a national consultative assembly, and in 1874 the…

After a referendum almost unanimously in favour, Iceland was declared an independent republic on 17th June 1944 at Þingvellir. Denmark did not,…

Read a potted history of Iceland from the Vikings to today.

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