 Perlan, Reykjavik's geothermal hot water storage |
 Hot spring in front of the Perlan |
 Walkway around the dome of the Perlan |
 View of Reykjavik's downtown airport from the Perlan |
 Hallgrímskirkja from the Perlan, Reykjavik |
 View of Reykjavik from the Perlan |
 Saga Museum at the Perlan |
 Icelandic Saga Museum |
 Irish monks seeking seclusion were the first to arrive in Iceland |
 Ingólfur Arnarson and his wife Hallvieg Fróðadóttir, the first permanent Nordic settlers, 874 AD |
 Early smith working Icelandic iron |
 "Red-blasting" smelting technique using a bellows |
 Celtic woman Melkorka Mýrkjartansdóttir with his son Ólafur ca 935 AD |
 Freydis Eiríkksdóttir frightening natives in Vinland ca 1000 AD |
 Tyrkir showing Leifur heppni (Leif the Lucky) grapes which led to the Vikings naming Newfoundland Vinland ca 1000 AD |
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 The seer þorbjörg from the saga of Eric the Red in Greeland |
 Early Christianity in Iceland |
 Snorri Sturluson, early 1200s politician |
 The Law Speaker's job was to memorize all the laws |
 The arrival of the plague in Iceland, 1402, on a ship from England, which killed 1/3 of Iceland's population |
 Battle of Örlygasstaðir, August 1238 |
 Battle of Örlygasstaðir, August 1238 |
 Battle of Örlygasstaðir, August 1238 |
 Burning of the witch Sister Katrín in 1343 |
 Beheading of the last Catholic bishop, Jón Arason, 1550 |