Iceland receives special weight because Jiang treats it as a Viking-derived site of early parliament, unusual social egalitarianism, and saga literature that fed modern European culture.
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Iceland
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"...is go west to found colonies. They will make settlements in Iceland, in Greenland. And in modern day Canada. The settlement is called Vineland...."
"...mythology of the Vikings were re -conceptualized and written down in Iceland. And these sagas, they're called sagas, okay, would become the foundation of..."
"...other right they they i mean like um you go to iceland i mean like oh my god they're all re they're all interrelated..."
"...through personal courage. That's why the Vikings went off to settle Iceland and Greenland. That's why they pillaged these monasteries in the south. That's..."
"...they did three things. They went over to colonize Greenland and Iceland. All right? And they also went to actually North America. So they..."
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