Presentation of Iceland

1. Presentation from Iceland

2. About Iceland
 Iceland is an Island far up in the north.
 There are 330.000 people who lives there.
 We have our special language, Icelandic. Which is one of the languages in the
world that is in danger of disappear.

3. About Iceland part II
 Iceland is famous these days and we have a lot of tourism.
 Iceland has done well in sports in the last few years and along with Germany and
Poland had the men´s national team in the finals in European Finals 2016 in
football, handball and basketball. The football team made it also to Russia 2018.
 Iceland came independent 1944 and then we changed from the Danish king to
Icelandic president.
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4. Food
 Iceland is an Island and for many years we made most of our income from fishing
around Iceland.
 We have very good fish industry and high standard there.
 In Iceland we have great nature, very little pollution so the animals we grow have
very good natural food.
 The sheeps which are the most popular food in Iceland, go free in the highlands
most of the summer, eating clean herbs and drinks good water.

5. Nature
 Iceland is on the border of two Flakes, the north american flake and the european
flake. (Evarsia) Because of that we have a lot volcanos and therefore eruptions.
(Eldgos).
 Eyjafjallajökull is one of our volcanos, but Hekla is the most famous one.

6. The language
 We have Icelandic words for a lot of things which are different from most other
languages. We try to make our own words instead of importing it from english,
danish or other languages.
 Telephone or Cell phone = sími
 Pizza = flatbaka
 Goodbye = bless
 Elementary school = grunnskóli
 Eruption = Eldgos

7. Nature II
 Iceland is in the north and there we can see the northern lights during wintertime
almost once a week.
THE NORTHERN LIGHTS
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