icelander
Noun
Meaning
A native, or one of the Scandinavian people, of Iceland.
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The next winter, Gudrid marries a visiting Icelander named Thorfinn Karlsefni, who agrees to undertake a major expedition to Vinland, taking livestock.
The next winter, Gudrid marries a visiting Icelander named Thorfinn Karlsefni, who, with his business partner Snorri Thorbrandsson, agrees to undertake a major expedition to the new land, taking livestock.
When spring comes, Thorhall Gamlason, the Icelander, wants to sail north round Kjalarnes to seek Vinland, while Thorfinn Karlsefni prefers to sail southward down the east coast.
In Eyrbyggja saga, the draugar infesting the home of the Icelander Kiartan were driven off by holding a "door-doom".
Perhaps women could vote – Icelandic women in Manitoba were among the leaders of the fight for women’s suffrage, achieved first in Manitoba in January 1916 while an Icelander, T.H. Johnson, was acting premier.