Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 August 1941 — Page 25

FRIDAY, AUG. 29, 1941

y Comparison With British and Americans, Icelanders Seem to Be Apathetic People

{ LB : By FRANK SMOTHERS Copyright, 1941, by The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Daily News, Inc. REYKJAVIK, Iceland, Aug. 29.— It is not only in the attitude of the Icelanders toward foreigners who get their girls away from them that signs are seen of the effect of the centuries upon the Viking blood. Generally speaking, the Icelanders strike a foreign visitor on first arrival as lacking in enthusiasm and drive. Self-respecting, deliberate, many

of them able to talk not only their|impression, watching the Icelanders own ancient tongue but English and at work or in the streets, that they other languages, they have smooth, |are, by comparison with Americans clean features. and British, an apathetic people. The principal industry of their| First impressions can easily be land, fishing, is dangerous. Ice-|/wrong, but that impression, one landers put to sea in little trawlers| finds, is not confined to newcomers. that are insecure indeed compared | For example, Lord Bryce, an outwith the American warships on|standing 19th Century authority on which we have come. Iceland and its literature, wrote Since gaining autonomy from the confirmation as far back as 1872: Danes in the last century, the Ice-| “. .. There is no want (in the landers have done much to improve average Icelander) of cheerfulness their commerce. {and good humor. His position, ‘far Nevertheless, one gets a general amid the melancholy main,’ has not

made him . . . discontented with his country; on the contrary, he tells you it is the fairest land the sun shines on . . . but there is a way in which eternal conditions do seem to have affected the modern Icelander. . . . He is anting in dash and vigor, and in the spirit of enterprise generally; has little promptitude in his decisions, still less in his movements. Nothing could be more unlike than he is in all these respects to those terrible ancestors of his in the 10th and 11th Centuries.”

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Some of the conditions that have brought the tremendous change from those centuries’ are plain enough. The aforementioned fact that during all these centuries the young men and women of this tiny country have been marrying each other has had much effect. That state of affairs, it is pointed out, was not good for the Spanish royal family and it is clear that it has progressively reduced the vigor of Icelanders. Although Iceland's death rate is

low, there are certain serious physical ailments, some of which are attributed in considerable part to the centuries of intermarriage. Cases of congenital lameness are said to be relatively frequent. About four persons per 1000 are afflicted by blindness, a rate eight or more times as serious as in Scandinavia. Congenital mental deficiency ig also

more common than in the “mother’

country,” involving about two per 1000. In a population of 120,000, statistics indicate 300 known cases of epilepsy.

A variety of causes—including a limited diet in which fish and potatoes are the mainstay—are cited to explain other common ailments. So is the longer winter. In southern Iceland it is not extremely cold, thanks to the Gulf Stream. In Reykjavik, where summers are cool, winter temperature rarely goes much below zero fahrenheit; the mean annual temperature here runs about 39 degrees. But the division of light and darkness is that of the near Arctic.

In summer one has only four hours or so of night; in the darkest period of winter about the same of day. The climate is extremely variable and there is much damp weather. Under these circumstances the common cold flourishes. Tubercu= losis is serious. Strangely, its incidence has in-

‘creased since the middle of the last

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