If you are interested to hear about my partie´s policies you can f.e. see the results of it in a thread I was creating just now:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1973110/posts
Here is then the wikipedia article about it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independence_Party_%28Iceland%29
Yeah, Pissant, I checked the page of the Falcon party it shows a picture of a living falcon, but no real logo. They would need one to be succesful I would guess. But isn´t it hopeless to have a third party that in fact doesn´t just spoil their agenda in a first past the post system like yours?
Wouldn´t a pressure group be more effective, as it would of course be just as much hackle to create, but it could see actual results?
We have a proportional list system, and we have thus 4-5 different parties (63 parliment seats in one chamber), one big on the right (mine) and several smaller on the centre and left. Sadly it seems one of those is actually gaining on us, the social-democrats.
TruthConquers, it is very likely, as the west-icelanders used the falcon much, and actually still after we took up another for the country with the semi-independence of 1918, and subsequently a new one based on that when we came a republic. One part of that is though considered an eagle OR a falcon.
But it could also be the Raven, wich has old mythological significance in Viking religion and was much used.
Where you raised up in an icelandic environment, culturally and linguistically? How big portion of your ancestors (and descendants) are icelandic?
Talarðu íslensku?
Not exactly sure what your driving at. Do they need an official logo? Yes. Has it been developed yet? no.
It might have been a raven, it was from the old raiding days, and the raven makes sense being a bird associated with Odin.
My mom was raised basically Icelandic, but in Canada, in and around Winnipeg. There was an Icelandic settlement that started there in the late 1860’s. My mom’s side is of all Icelandic decent coming from west Iceland from what I can tell of the genealogies. My mom did not marry an Icelander, and neither did any of her siblings. They all seemed to marry Scots, though. So I am only on half Icelandic, on my moms side.
As to language, no I do not speak Icelandic. My mom tells the story of her older brother going to school and not speaking English. That was when her parents only spoke English in the home from then on. In fact, she told me and my brothers that her parents would speak in Icelandic around Christmas time about presents and the kids would not know what they were saying. I know a few words, glisster(sister), ponnukokur, vinarterta, skyr, and lifrarpylsa(the last two I make occasionally). And of course, Amma.
Culturally, not a lot. I do know that when my uncle wanted to retire, his business went entirely to his oldest son and that is a very Icelandic tradition that I am aware of. I know of Huddlefolk, and have been to the Islendingadagur in Gimli on Lake Winnipeg twice.
It is not much, but I have always been aware of my heritage and have sought to learn what I could.