http://www.grapevine.is/Features/ReadArticle/Media-Policy-Intergration-and-Immigrants-Participation-

Iceland: First European nation to recognize Palestinian State

High Percentage Of Icelanders Considering Leaving The Country

About 40% of Icelanders have said that they have recently
considered leaving the country, for reasons that are hardly surprising.
The demographic breakdown sheds more light on those parties interested.

The Herul migrations through Europe and to Iceland

This is a very interesting presentation about a Germanic tribe called the Heruls, that migrated all around Europe from the 1st century BC to the Viking era and finally ended up in Iceland. Unfortunately it is only available in Icelandic so i translated the main points of the recording

I will add more details when i get  time to translate

Jewish Community Found In Iceland

Two American rabbinical students who arrived in Iceland in search
of the country's Jewish population found a surprising number of them,
and believe the need for a synagogue is apparent.

In Iceland, tiny Jewish community celebrates new beginnings

By Alex Weisler · October 3, 2011

http://www.mbl.is/mm/gagnasafn/grein.html?grein_id=467231

Benjaminites from Galilee

Incurable age

In his account of the Gothic wars Procopius talks
about the Heruli, their history, traditions and customs. He says among
other things that among them was the custom, that when men were decrepit
from old age or sick, that then they were not allowed life. A funeral
pyre was then built and then the one not deemed fit to life was laid on
it. Then they sent after someone not related to him and it was his task
to kill the one lying on the pyre. It was not thought fitting to let his
kinsmen be the executioner. After the killing the kinsmen of the dead

Funeral customs

From the Landnámabók it can be said that most of
the settlers came from the western counties of Norway. For support of
this philologists have sought to point to the comparison of the
development of Icelandic language and norwegian dialects in the western
fjords of Norway. With this Barði thought that the scholars thought
Icelanders to be of western-norwegian origin. This theory he dismissed
and to his support he pointed to the research of archeologists on
ancient funeral customs. A great deal of dead mens graves in various

Origin of the Icelanders
the theories of Barði Guðmundsson
Author is Gunnar Gunnarsson

Just 48,000 people live in the Faroe Islands, including children from
Ethiopia, Korea and India, where adoption rates are the world's highest.

Just 48,000 people live in the Faroe Islands, including children from
Ethiopia, Korea and India, who are welcomed with open arms in this
remote Atlantic archipelago where adoption rates are the world's
highest.

Greece to Build Wall to Keep Out Turks

by Jeff Davis

A
Reuters article reports: “The U.N. refugee agency voiced concern on
Friday that Greece’s proposed 12.5 km-long fence at its border with
Turkey will shut out asylum-seekers fleeing violence and abuse in their
troubled homelands. The fence could lead illegal migrants, including
people in need of international protection, to resort to even riskier
routes with the help of unscrupulous human traffickers, it said.”

But,

http://grapevine.is/News/ReadArticle/Icelandic-Fish-And-Candy-To-Be-Kosher

Is Iceland on Israeli radar after Norway?

On March 9, 2011 – The BBC reported that
property tycoons Robert and Vincent Tchenguiz were arrested as part of
an investigation into the collapse of Icelandic bank Kaupthing. However,
it was not mentioned that the two brothers were Israeli citizen and
their father, Victor Tchenguiz, was an Iranian Jew and the royal

http://netrightdaily.com/2011/04/icelan ... nal-banks/
 
Iceland Declares Independence from International Banks