From auto-replier-daemon@BLOOM-PICAYUNE.MIT.EDU Sat Aug 17 16:20:19 1996 Received: from MIT.EDU (SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU [18.72.1.2]) by bloom-picayune.MIT.EDU (8.6.13/2.3JIK) with SMTP id QAA26584; Sat, 17 Aug 1996 16:20:16 -0400 Received: from BLOOM-PICAYUNE.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA13321; Sat, 17 Aug 96 16:19:26 EDT Received: (from daemon@localhost) by bloom-picayune.MIT.EDU (8.6.13/2.3JIK) id QAA26533; Sat, 17 Aug 1996 16:19:23 -0400 Received: from lysander.lysator.liu.se (lysander.lysator.liu.se [130.236.254.250]) by bloom-picayune.MIT.EDU (8.6.13/2.3JIK) with ESMTP id QAA26376 for ; Sat, 17 Aug 1996 16:17:59 -0400 Received: from tindra.lysator.liu.se (jmo@tindra.lysator.liu.se [130.236.254.62]) by lysander.lysator.liu.se (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA24847 for ; Sat, 17 Aug 1996 22:17:51 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from jmo@localhost) by tindra.lysator.liu.se (8.7.4/8.7.3) id WAA04878; Sat, 17 Aug 1996 22:17:47 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Sat, 17 Aug 1996 22:17:47 +0200 (MET DST) Message-Id: <199608172017.WAA04878@tindra.lysator.liu.se> From: Johan Olofsson Old-To: news-answers-submit@BLOOM-PICAYUNE.MIT.EDU Old-Subject: new maintainer for the soc.culture.nordic-FAQ Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: [checked] To: news-answers-request@MIT.EDU From: jmo@lysator.liu.se (SCN Faq-maintainer) Newsgroups: soc.culture.nordic,soc.answers,news.answers Subject: The Nordic FAQ - ICELAND Followup-To: soc.culture.nordic Expires: 1 Sep 1997 00:00:00 GMT Supersedes: <44s6vs$9i4@kruuna.helsinki.fi> Summary: About Iceland: culture, history, places of interest and other things. This document is part 5 of the soc.culture.nordic-FAQ. Archive-name: nordic-faq/part5_ICELAND Posting-Frequency: yearly (at least) Version: 1.4 Last-modified: 05/08/96 (dd/mm/yy) URL: http://www.lysator.liu.se/nordic/scnfaq5.html URL: http://www.lysator.liu.se/nordic/textvers/part5.html - A Frequently Answered Questions (FAQ) file for the newsgroup S O C . C U L T U R E . N O R D I C *** PART 5: ICELAND *** Index 5.1 Fact Sheet 5.2 General information 5.2.1 Geography, climate, vegetation 5.2.2 Economy 5.2.3 Government 5.2.4 Population and language 5.3 History 5.3.1 A chronology of important dates 5.3.2 Icelanders discover Greenland 5.3.3 Icelanders discover America (Vinland); L'Anse aux Meadows 5.4 Main tourist attractions 5.4.1 Reykjavik 5.4.2 Einar Indridason's travel tips [remainder of text deleted by folder-shrink.pl]