Insight Compact Guide Iceland (Insight Compact Guides Iceland)
Publisher: Langenscheidt Publishers
Published: June 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
ISBN-13: 9781585730452
Subjects: Travel & holiday guides; Travel Guides; Travel - Foreign; Travel; Iceland; Europe - Iceland & Greenland
First sentence: As he approached Iceland for the first time, Ingolfur Amarson, the country's first permanent settler, tossed his high-seat pillars overboard, so that the gods could direct them to the settlement that they had chosen for him.