For it was a revival among Icelanders of an interest in North America that had not been manifest for some 800 years. And it kindled an American interest in Iceland that has grown until we who live in the United States. from the Atlantic to the Pacific. from the northern frontier to the Gulf of Mexico look to Iceland and its people as to familiar neighbors. good friends. In 1855 when these pioneers. these converts to the Mormon Church. left Iceland they left a country where they and their ancestors had been living a secluded life for nearly a thousand years. - From its settlement about 874 through the next 10 centuries the people of Iceland had shown little desire to emigrate or even. for that matter. to partake in the troublesome political life of the European or American continents. True it is that they discovered u large area of the continent that lay to the west. They even settled in. 1 or 2 places in numbers sufficient to indicate that they intended to stay permanently.
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