Icelanders (people)

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Icelanders as a people is both a collective term for all Icelandic citizens and the name for the ethnic group that makes up the majority of the population in Iceland with 96.5%.

Icelanders speak Icelandic and the majority belong to the Evangelical Lutheran Icelandic State Church . Most of the Icelanders' ethnic group comes from Norwegian and Danish immigrants from the time of the Vikings and is therefore part of the Germanic peoples .

Icelanders are often referred to as one of the most homogeneous peoples in the world. As a result, efforts are being made to explore the island's “ gene pool ” and to make commercial use of the research results. However, the project is very controversial, as data protection and the fact that the investigation can also be carried out without the consent of the person concerned are not given enough consideration in the opinion of the opponents. Science does not see the homogeneity of the population as absolutely certain. It is believed that immigrants from the Scandinavian countries brought a large proportion of Celtic slaves to the British Isles when they settled and that descendants between these immigrant groups were produced when these immigrant groups were conquered. Isolated by the sea, the people - compared to many other peoples - changed relatively little until the Second World War. Technical progress and increased mobility have since encouraged immigration of other ethnic groups.