Sung by the choir of Langholtskirkja, Reykajvík. Conductor Jón Stefánsson.
The poem was made to commemorate the millennium of settlement in Iceland int the year 1874. In 1930, the year of the millennium of the old Parliament at Þingvellir, it was made the national anthem.
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