As Iceland celebrates its centennial, it offers lessons in independence for Greenland and the Faroe Islands
Iceland celebrates a century of independence from Denmark this year. Can it prove to be a model for the two other Danish territories in the North Atlantic?
July 17, 2018
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One hundred years ago, in 1918, the year of Iceland’s independence, the winter was so harsh and cold in the first months of the year that horses keeled over dead in the fields.
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