VISIT TO ICELAND.
A visitor to Auckland this -week was Miss Gwenyth Lindon, who is making a short stay in New Zealand. Among tlie many places she visited, Miss Lindon thought that the most interesting was Iceland, in which she spent some time last year. “The Icelanders are a remarkable and very superior race,” she said. Although the people were intensively inbred they seemed to have suffered no ill effects. For an Icelander to be able to trace his ancestry back for 1000 years was nothing unusual. They are splendidly independent, very cheerful, very proud and most intelligent. Iceland possesses the oldest Parliament in the world. “It is a 1000-year-old institution,” she said.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 21, 22 December 1937, Page 13
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113VISIT TO ICELAND. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 21, 22 December 1937, Page 13
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