Icelandic History

The Christianisation in Iceland
There were Two men called Gissur hvíti Teitsson and Hjalti Skeggjason who brought Christianity to Iceland in the year 1000. Before they brought Christianity belief to iceland we believed that the old Nordic gods was our religion, but then we were vikings. The Heathen Vikings didn't worship in the same sense as Christians.They respected their Gods and honored them. Perhaps they made sacrifice to give thanks or ask favor in times of danger. The Gods were more powerful then men. But they were not all-powerful, or all-knowing, or entirely good. Like men, they ate, fought, played jokes, were deceived on occasion, and eventually would die. They were themselves bound by their fates, and doomed to die at the end of the world. After which, they and the world, are to be reborn and the cycle continued.
It isn't totaly extinct here now, it is still the religion of a small group of people. The first bishop who was here in Iceland was Ísleifur Gissurarson, he was the son of Gissur hvíti Teitsson.
Iceland was independent for many years but then our parliament decided that we should become subjects of the King of Norway in 1262. Then after that Denmark took over Norway and us. We didn't get our independence back until 1944, thanks to Jón Sigurðsson, our Icelandic hero.