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The ENTIRE History of Iceland in 12 Minutes

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How did a "worthless" rock in the North Atlantic become one of the richest and happiest countries on Earth?

The man who named Iceland gave up on it. Then came Vikings fleeing a king, a parliament on an open plain, sagas that saved Norse mythology, 600 years of foreign rule, a volcano that killed a fifth of the population, a war over fish that a country with no army actually won, a chess match that stopped the world, and an eruption that shut down the skies over Europe.

This is the entire history of Iceland, from the first lava 16 million years ago to today.

⏱ Chapters
0:00 How Iceland Was Born
0:33 Vikings Find an Unknown Land
1:34 King Harald and the First Settlers
2:26 The Althing: One of the Oldest Parliaments
2:37 Where Did the Forests Go?
3:01 Cod: Iceland's Real Treasure
3:25 Erik the Red and Greenland
3:55 Leif Erikson Reaches America
4:22 Civil War of the Great Families
4:47 Snorri Sturluson and Norse Mythology
5:41 Under Norway and Denmark
6:11 The Danish Trade Monopoly
6:47 The Laki Eruption
7:12 Jón Sigurðsson and the Road to Freedom
7:47 WWII and the Republic of Iceland
8:28 When Fish Was Money
9:03 The Cod Wars
9:50 Fischer vs Spassky
10:26 The Reagan–Gorbachev Summit
10:39 The Volcano That Closed Europe's Skies
11:12 Iceland Today

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