The world of ice and fire is called Iceland.
Iceland*** and the country (Icelandic: L?veldi sland), or Iceland for short, is an island nation in the North Atlantic Ocean. Located at the confluence of the Atlantic Ocean and the Arctic Ocean, one of the five Nordic countries, with a land area of 103,000 square kilometers and a population of about 320,000, is the least densely populated country in Europe. The capital is Reykjavík, the largest city in Iceland, and the population of the southwestern region near the capital accounts for 2/3 of the country's population.
Iceland is situated on the mid-Atlantic Ridge, and it is a country with many volcanoes and frequent geological activities. The interior is mainly a plains landscape, with sandy, cooled lava plains and glaciers spread throughout the country. Although Iceland is located on the edge of the Arctic Circle, it has a favorable climate influenced by the warm North Atlantic Current.
According to the Book of Colonization, European settlers date back as far as 874 A.D., with the Viking party of Yngar Jarnasson being the first permanent settlers in Iceland, while other earlier settlers only wintered in Iceland. In the following centuries, Iceland was settled by Scandinavians, who also brought Gaelic slaves, and from 1262 to 1918 Iceland became part of Norway, then under the Danish Crown, and in 1918 Iceland declared its independence and was founded as a state of **** and in 1944.
Iceland is a highly developed capitalist country and one of the happiest countries in the world, with a state-provided Nordic welfare system of health insurance and higher education.In 2014 Iceland ranked 13th on the United Nations' Human Development Index.Iceland is the smallest of the NATO member states in terms of population and is the only one that does not have a standing army, with only a coast guard for defense.
Iceland is divided into 21 municipalities and 203 electoral districts. There are six major electoral districts: Northwest, Northeast, South, Southwest, Reykjavík South and North.
Icelandic accent is always on the first syllable. It maintains a complete system of flexion changes. Verbs have person and tense changes; nouns have 4 cases (subject, genitive, with, and object); nouns, adjectives, pronouns, etc. are divided into masculine, feminine, and neuter (other Scandinavian languages are divided into generic and neuter only), and singular and plural; and the definite article is usually attached as a suffix to a noun (which is very similar to Danish and some Scandinavian languages). The grammar and vocabulary of Icelandic are stable, but the pronunciation of modern Icelandic is quite different from that of ancient times. Icelandic employs Latin script, but still uses the letters and from the Old Norse script for clear and velar fricatives, respectively. Icelandic is one of the Scandinavian languages.
The Scandinavian languages form part of the Germanic group, which belongs to the Indo-European language family.
Icelandic is similar to the Old Norse language of the Scandinavians, which came to Iceland from Norway in the ninth century. Other Scandinavian languages had been strongly influenced by the languages of neighboring countries; however, because Icelandic is an island language and has no connection with other languages, it has remained characterized by its primitive state for centuries. As a result, Icelandic children today have no difficulty in reading the great epic poem "The Eddas Saga Collection" written in Old Norse. Icelandic is the mother tongue of other modern Scandinavian languages, and it has many ****s in common with Old English, a result of the Scandinavian invasion of Britain in the ninth century.
The relationship between Icelandic and Old English is also reflected in the alphabet, which has the ancient Norse letters ? (the turbid sound of th) and the spiky symbol ? (the clear sound of th). It also contains the letters ? in Danish and Norwegian.