Iceland seminar, nationalistic feud

[Kristinn Leifsson]

Richard! You´re joking!  You are telling MOI ?!

A thousand years ago, Leifur Eiríksson, son of Eiríkur rauði found 
N-America.  As for "inhabited by Norwegian Vikings"... who told you 
that?  That´s absurd.  Fair enough, Eric the Red was Norwegian but his son 
Leifur was by all accounts Icelandic.
Seventy years earlier we had our national parliament, the Alþingi, which is 
the oldest one in the world.
We are direct descendants of the people that fled Norway due to population 
increase, come on man.

"Icelanders are the world´s most intelligent nation.  They found America... 
and had the wisdom to leave."
Albert Einstein

Kristinn,
Son of Leifur, son of Magnús... ... ... son of Leifur, son of  Eiríkur the 
Red who was Norwegian but couldn´t help it ;-Þ



At 14:56 9.10.2000 +0200, you wrote:


>Kristinn Leifsson wrote:
>
> > Do you copy, Roger? tsk tsk. :)
> >
> > The name, my friend, is the reason for our success.  "What´s in a name"?
> > thou wondereth.  Well a long time ago, even before the patch of land that
> > the U.S. of A occupies was discovered (by us I should add),
>
>Actually, you are in error there. Iceland was inhabited by Norsk Vikings at
>the time and it was THEY who discovered America,, for all the good it did
>them... grin. At some point they dropped out, as did the Icelandic Norsk...
>forgotten for a time in the dust of history.. Isolated from the rest of the
>world the remainder of the people on Iceland slowly developed there own
>society, indeed Icelandic reads and probably sounds like old Nordic. And as we
>all know the Nordics who discovered America simply disapeared leaving only
>hints of their stay there.
>
> > the name
> > Iceland was given to the country to get the brunt of the leeches in the
> > world to stay away.  People who needed comfort without work.  However, the
> > name Greenland was given to that country because they definitely needed
> > more people over there.
>
>Grin... and more Green period..
>
> > Yet Greenland is ice.  So you can send us all here
> > a postcard from Greenland during our seminar in Reykjavík. :)
> >
> > Well what can I say, just come over.
>
>That is in any case sound advice. You should all visit our Nordic countries at
>some time.
>
> >
> > Actually I´ve received positive feedback on this matter.  Would you people
> > please tell me if you think there is any basis for this.
> > Would you take a trip?
>
>Interest is certainly their.. but I think realization is somewhat off in the
>future. I am on board tho on the first boat.
>
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Kristinn Leifsson,
> > Reykjavík, Iceland
> > 6°C at 9.am (dry)
> >
> >
>
>--
>Richard Brekne
>RPT, N.P.T.F.
>Bergen, Norway
>13¤ at 15:00 (very wet)