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Holidays to Iceland, Where the Viking Spirit Smoulders

Iceland holidays take you to a colony of the Vikings, where you can follow the trails of the Viking sagas and witness the Norse tradition played out in exuberant festivals.

Vikings! Imagine a gigantic fire the size of a house with a throng of tattooed men in roaring drunken song. Nowadays, such sights are reserved for Iceland's holiday festivals to celebrate midsummer, such as on the volcanic the isle of Vestmannaeyjar. There will be no longboat aflame though; instead the locals heap wooden pallets into a two-storey bonfire and drench it in petrol. You'll find no horned helmets here either - at least none to be taken seriously - this iconic headgear is a fiction: the Norsemen never wore them.

The modern population of Iceland has roots in Scandinavian, British and Celtic ancestry, descending from the first Norse settlers and the slaves they brought to Iceland from the nations had they invaded before coming here.

When the first Vikings came to Iceland from Norway, they would have recognised something familiar in the landscape; like the land of their origin, Iceland is edged with fjords and covered with rugged snowfields. But, like every modern visitor on a holiday to Iceland, they must have been puzzled and amazed by the geysers. It was because of these strange geothermal phenomena that the Vikings gave Reykjavik its name, which means "smoky bay".

Not far from Reykjavik is the Althing amphitheatre at Thingvellir National Park, the centre of Icelandic Viking tradition. Many package holidays to Iceland will bring you to this UNESCO World Heritage Site as part of a tour to see where the medieval chieftain priests settled disputes and brought a semblance of democracy to their burgeoning nation.

The Logberg, or 'rock of law', served as a stage for making speeches, and was the focus for discussing the laws of the land. Although the majority of Scandinavian settlers in Iceland were more farmers and traders than rampaging pillagers, it was nonetheless a time where bad blood between tribes meant a cycle of murder and revenge. This early parliament set about bringing some order to that unforgiving society.

From around the year 930, thirty nine representatives from the all populated corners of the country would assemble here annually to discuss issues of power. For some, this meant a hazardous two-week journey crossing glaciers and fording rivers. Even in modern Iceland, the first pagan parliament remains a place of pilgrimage, both for people on Iceland holidays and for the natives who consider Althing a national monument.

The Thingvellir landscape surrounding Althing is also marked for UNESCO preservation. This is a wide green valley with misty mountains in the distance, where the ground is broken by knuckles of rock and channels of glassy water. There are faults here in the bedrock caused by the separation of the earth's crust where two landmasses are moving slowly but steadily apart. This phenomenon is a popular attraction for 'Golden Circle' tours as part of holidays to Iceland, where tourists can peer into canyons and witness where the country is distancing itself from Europe and its Norse origins.

But the Viking influence is not restricted to this Southwest region of Iceland. Holidays that take in any of the country's coastline will likely observe the Norse seafaring spirit on show in the fjords and the harbours of fishing villages. Holidays to Iceland's West region of Borgarfjordur, 'the saga valley', will encounter the many historical Viking sites situated here among the waterfalls, hot springs and glacial valleys that Iceland is famous for.

About the Author

Vikki Beale is a holiday expert for iceland2go, a specialist operator providing
Iceland holidays
and holidays to Greenland. We provide luxury tailor-made itineraries and the finest package holidays Iceland can offer, with sights including glaciers, geysers, fjords, and the Northern Lights.

why did the vikings make the Long Man?

i have seen the Long Man, and i wondered why the Vikings built the long man...
no offensive answers please! thanks
=)
(i think it was the vikings..)

I assume you are talking about the Long Man of Wilmington. If so, nobody really knows much about him. Some believe he is ancient, like the Uffington Chalk Horse (reliably dated to the Bronze Age); Some believe he dates the to late Roman period (4th century AD); Some believe he was the work of medieval artists; and still others believe he was only created in the 16th century (he's not mentioned in any medieval writings and the first drawing of him only dates to 1710).

However, as Wilmington is south-east of London, that puts it outside the area of Viking influence called the Danelaw and therefore is it extremely doubtful that the Vikings has anything to do with him.

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