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Vestmannaeyjar, Iceland, 1998 Photograph by Sisse Brimberg During the
first weekend of August, the residents of Vestmannaeyjar celebrate
Iceland&#039s first constitution in bold Viking stylewith fire, song,
and plenty of drink. Democracy took root on this rocky island in 930
A.D., when the Althing, predecessor to today&#039s parliament, first
met. "Icelanders have no other king than the laws," wrote an
11th-century cleric, and the proud descendants of the country&#039s
original settlers remain fiercely independent.

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