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Sep 11, 2026
Kristjan LoftssonSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And, uh, we are fishermen here in Iceland, and, and that's how we live.
James MenendezHOST
But is that how most Icelanders live? How much of a history of commercial whaling is there? I've been talking to Ragnar Edvaldsson, a maritime archeologist at the University of Iceland
Ragnar EdvaldssonSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
IcelandCommercial whaling has never been, uh, throughout the centuries, uh, an, an important thing in Iceland.
Ragnar EdvaldssonSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Uh, you know, Iceland has primarily hunted whales for subsistence through harvesting beached whales.
Ragnar EdvaldssonSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
When you reach the, uh, the late 19th century, Iceland has started realizing actually that they could, uh, you know, benefit from this themselves if they started whaling.
Ragnar EdvaldssonSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And, uh, we can say that they learned from the Norwegians both how to run, uh, com, you know, whaling factories and how to, how to go about hunting whales.
Ragnar EdvaldssonSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
They begin in 1930, the Icelanders, but that really doesn't kick off until about 1940.
Ragnar EdvaldssonSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Uh, and after that, Iceland has really, um, committed to commercial whaling.
Nick VinocurGUEST
That was kind of the argument.
Nick VinocurGUEST
And Norway was looking to Iceland and may have followed them, and it turns out the Icelanders were really not interested.
Nick VinocurGUEST
And it was, you know, ended up being kind of things like fishing rights and stuff like that.
Nick VinocurGUEST
But it showed you that they see their economic interest as being outside the EU, and that's probably the case for other wealthy nations.
Jim PowerHOST
I am indeed, actually.
Jim PowerHOST
I mean, the Icelandic Prime Minister, Kristen Frostedatter, Forgive my Icelandic pronunciation, but she called the AI generated image ridiculous and an insult to Icelanders, Canadians and Greenlanders.
Jim PowerHOST
Denmark's foreign minister described it as disturbing.
Chris JohnsHOST
It's crazy.
Hrvoje MoricHOST
And then they'll, they'll have another referendum and it'll be, you know, 51%.
Hrvoje MoricHOST
Icelanders accept the EU.
Hrvoje MoricHOST
They did this in Ireland.
Hrvoje MoricHOST
They did this in Croatia.
Becky CookNARRATOR
His rise in the world was chiefly owing to his marriage with Herdissa, the daughter of a priest called Bercy the Rich, a very enviable surname which no doubt enabled the reverend gentleman to brave the decrees of popes and councils and take to himself a wife, who brought him a very considerable fortune.
Becky CookNARRATOR
If we may judge from Snorri's biography, Christianity appears to have affected very little change in the character of the Icelanders.
Becky CookNARRATOR
We have the same turbulent and sanguinary scenes, the same loose conduct of the woman, perfidy and remorselessness, cruelty of the men, as in pagan times.
Becky CookNARRATOR
End of footnote 4.
Becky CookNARRATOR
His rise in the world was chiefly owing to his marriage with Herdissa, the daughter of a priest called Bercy the Rich, a very enviable surname which no doubt enabled the reverend gentleman to brave the decrees of popes and councils and take to himself a wife, who brought him a very considerable fortune.
Becky CookNARRATOR
If we may judge from Snorri's biography, Christianity appears to have affected very little change in the character of the Icelanders.
Becky CookNARRATOR
We have the same turbulent and sanguinary scenes, the same loose conduct of the woman, perfidy and remorselessness, cruelty of the men, as in pagan times.
Becky CookNARRATOR
End of footnote 4.
Anna PtaszynskiHOST
Um, the mad thing about them is that, um, it wasn't medieval times, it was literally all of time until just after the Second World War.
Anna PtaszynskiHOST
So in about 1945, more than 50% of Icelanders lived in turf houses.
Anna PtaszynskiHOST
So most people in Iceland lived in turf houses.
Anna PtaszynskiHOST
And after 20 years, so 20 years from World War II, only 1% did.
Charlotte MortlockHOST
A diplomatic row has erupted after President Donald Trump released a controversial Stars and Stripes map depicting Iceland as part of the United States.
Charlotte MortlockHOST
Iceland summoned the US ambassador over the post made on Truth Social, and the Nordic nation's prime minister labeled it as an insult to Icelanders.
Charlotte MortlockHOST
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Charlotte MortlockHOST
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Juan NaulaNARRATOR
The age of Viking expansion had a long-lasting legacy.
Juan NaulaNARRATOR
From these Viking colonies, connections, and settlements, many later communities and groups emerged, from the Normans of Normandy and England and the Norse-Gaels of Scotland and Ireland to the Rus' people and islanders like the Faroese and Icelanders.
Juan NaulaNARRATOR
The ruling groups, as well as the general population, of many of these countries, such as the current royal family of Great Britain or the Romanovs of Russia, were descended from these Viking settlers and invaders.
Juan NaulaNARRATOR
During the Viking Age in which Rollo lived, the present-day nations of Norway, Denmark, and Sweden did not exist.
speaker_1HOST
Yeah, and the violence became so destabilizing that the common farmers could no longer survive the collateral damage.
speaker_1HOST
The pressure reached a breaking point, and in 1262, the Icelanders signed the Old Covenant.
HamidHOST
Basically giving up.
speaker_1HOST
They voluntarily submitted to the King of Norway simply to restore administrative order.
HamidHOST
Wow.
speaker_1HOST
And Freyr's folding ship, Skidbladnir, it represents an idealized mastery over maritime trade.
speaker_1HOST
That was the only way Icelanders could import essential resources like timber.
HamidHOST
Because there are hardly any trees in Iceland.
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