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

Iceland was a largely uninhabited island in the northern Atlantic Ocean where Norsemen settled around 870. It began as a ‘free state’ but became a…

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.