Iceland, though it lies so far to the north that it is partly within the Arctic Circle, is, like Norway, Scotland, and Ireland, affected by the Gulf Stream, so that considerable portions of it are quite habitable. – Harry Johnston
I applied for funding to embark on an overseas field trip in Iceland, and spent six weeks there happily holed up in the national archives, museums and libraries, sifting through ministerial and parish records, censuses, maps, microfilm, logs, and local histories. – Hannah Kent
I consider myself more a European director who is from Iceland than an Icelandic director. – Baltasar Kormakur
The thing about Iceland is that we are trapped there anyway, all of us. We have been trapped there for thousands of years. – Baltasar Kormakur
I went to Iceland in 1861 and went over nearly every bit of the ground made famous by the adventures of Grettir. – Sabine Baring-Gould
