Picture of Crack filled with clear water in the Þingvellir area (Þingvellir, Iceland)

Crack filled with clear water in the Þingvellir area

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Not just the cradle of Icelandic parliament, but also a telling example of the geology of the country, Þingvellir is the historical symbol of the soul of Iceland, as well as a place of a distinct natural beauty.
Below me, wedged in between Þingvallavatn to the south and the mountains a little further away, plains with clear cracks and fissures, a few houses and a church right on the shore of the Öxará river. At the same time, I was looking at the cradle of Icelandic parliament, and the point where North American and Eurasian tectonic plates are moving away from each other. Literally meaning Parliament Meadow, Þingvellir was chosen as the setting of the first democratic parliament worldwide, in 930CE. Here, speeches and debates were held, laws were designed or altered, sentences were passed, contracts were signed, punishments were carried out, and marriages were performed. The annual meeting of parliament was an event which drew thousands of people in a gathering of national unity. For weeks, ordinary people would stay here, to party, talk, drink, hear stories from other parts of the island.
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