Talk:Icelanders/Archive 1

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The vikings were an Amazing people that conquered most of the early world. Some of the lands that were settled and plunderized by them were some of the following:

Iceland,Greenland,Russia,Italy,France,Britain, and Islands within the Atlantic.

These Icelanders were often reffered to as Danes and were slower pace than most civilizations during their time. Although they were slower than many other settlements they made the most of their knowledge and built the fastest ship of their day. This ship was long, narrow, and had a pointed front. Huge sails were common for these ships and painting were carved on the walls. There was room for 30 to 40 rowers to help aid the ships speed. These people are mostly known for there civilizations in Iceland and Greenland yet they accomplished and created city-states in many others including the above listed.

Some famous Icelanders that came to be known even today are Leif Ericson, Eric the Red, and Rurik. Here is some information on these icelanders: Rurik-Rurik, was the chief of a tribe cabled the Rus. Rurik led his followers across the Baltic Sea and Gulf of Finland into what is today the Russa. The name Russia may have come from the name of Rurik's Viking tribe, Rus.

Leif Ericson-Leif Ericson took a voyage in about the year 1000. He was driven off his course by a storm and landed somewhere on the eastern coast of North America, perhaps in southeastern Canada. He became famous because it is believed that he discovered America before Columbus.

Eric the Red-Eric the Red became widely known as a fierce young chief a bit over zealous. He left Iceland with his family and friends. They sailed westward to a large island which they called Greenland, and they settled there.

Related Ethnic Groups

Have tidied this up. No doubt someone will revert it to its original format which wasn't ethnic at all but a linguistic categorisation and included 'germanic peoples' purely for being Germanic. Enzedbrit 08:48, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

Icelandic people

As with every other ethnicity article, such as Scottish people and English people, I request an article move to "Icelandic people" with "Icelander" as a redirect. Rshu 01:33, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

Population numbers and raison d'être

Where on earth do these numers come from? 50.000 Icelanders in America? I think this should be confirmed or removed. I have to admit, also, I fail to see this article's raison d'être. If you look at the definition givien in the entry for ethnicity you'll see that there is a presupposition regarding mutual recognition, i.e. the members of the group must identify with each other; but I don't think Icelanders identify with any foreign citizens as being Icelanders in virtue of belonging to the same ethnic group. Nor, indeed, do they even identify themselves as an ethnic group at all. To be an Icelander is to be an Icelandic citizen and vice versa. Could we perhaps get verification that they do in fact identify as an ethic group? And also that foreign people would be included? If no such verification can be found, I will probably suggest that the article be deleted on account of being (a) unverifiable, and (b) containing original research. --D. Webb 20:03, 5 April 2007 (UTC)