This country avoided a religious civil war by appointing a mediator, who threw his idols into awaterfall after spending a day and a night in his tent deciding it should become a Christian country.It became Lutheran when the Battle of Saudafell was lost by its last Catholic bishop, Jon Arason.According to legend, the first settler of this country threw two pillars into the water and built itscapital where they landed. During World War II it was bloodlessly invaded in Oper
This country avoided a religious civil war by appointing a mediator, who threw his idols into awaterfall after spending a day and a night in his tent deciding it should become a Christian country.It became Lutheran when the Battle of Saudafell was lost by its last Catholic bishop, Jon Arason.According to legend, the first settler of this country threw two pillars into the water and built itscapital where they landed. During World War II it was bloodlessly invaded in Operation Fork by theUK, and declared itself a Republic in 1944. As a commonwealth, one third of its laws were (*) recitedaloud each year by a "Law Speaker." Those laws were read at the meetings of its assembly, which claimsto be the oldest extant parliamentary institution, although its powers were diminished during this country's1262 to 1944 union with Norway. For 10 points, the Allthing meets in what island nation in the northAtlantic?
This country avoided a religious civil war by appointing a mediator, who threw his idols into awaterfall after spending a day and a night in his tent deciding it should become a Christian country.
Iceland