Iceland is an incredible country, a place like no other. A tiny black rock that sits in the middle of the Atlantic and Arctic oceans, it's a brutal other-world, a Tolkeinesque paradise where you get glassed in pubs if you say you don't believe in fairies. A place that sees 22 hours of light in the summer, and similar levels of darkness in the winter.
The population hovers just above the 300,000 mark (roughly the same as Stoke-on-Trent), and the climate and landscape makes much of the country almost completely uninhabitable. Despite this, it has long punched above its weight when it's taken its place on the world stage. Bjork, geysers, Eidur Gudjohnsen and internet freedoms aside, Iceland has a world-beating reputation in one discipline: the World's Strongest Man competition.
Despite its size and tiny population, the island has given us some of the competition's greatest legends, including two men who've been crowned the strongest man on the planet four times over: Jon Pall Sigmarsson and Magnus Ver Magnusson, as well as countless other record holders and internationally famous strongmen. In a country where half the population are estimated to have eaten at the same
dog
bar in Reykjavik, such a reputation is bound to have an effect on the nation's culture as a whole
Iceland is an incredible country, a place like no other. A tiny black rock that sits in the middle of the Atlantic and Arctic oceans, it's a brutal other-world, a Tolkeinesque paradise where you get glassed in pubs if you say you don't believe in fairies. A place that sees 22 hours of light in the summer, and similar levels of darkness in the winter.
The population hovers just above the 300,000 mark (roughly the same as Stoke-on-Trent), and the climate and landscape makes much of the country almost completely uninhabitable. Despite this, it has long punched above its weight when it's taken its place on the world stage. Bjork, geysers, Eidur Gudjohnsen and internet freedoms aside, Iceland has a world-beating reputation in one discipline: the World's Strongest Man competition.
Despite its size and tiny population, the island has given us some of the competition's greatest legends, including two men who've been crowned the strongest man on the planet four times over: Jon Pall Sigmarsson and Magnus Ver Magnusson, as well as countless other record holders and internationally famous strongmen. In a country where half the population are estimated to have eaten at the same
dog
bar in Reykjavik, such a reputation is bound to have an effect on the nation's culture as a whole
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