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Instrumental music (in the usual sense of that term) didn't exist. Due to Iceland's isolation centuries of musical development (on the…

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Reading Icelandic books translated to English: Even if you’ve never considered reading an 800-year-old story, some Icelandic sagas might surprise you:…

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Founded in the early 1920s by Andre Breton (and emphatically explained in his Manifestoes of Surrealism), Surrealism is considered both…