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In 1955, Halldór Laxness became Iceland’s first and only Nobel laureate. On that occasion, he gave the banquet speech at the Stockholm City Hall, and, as so often when Icelanders look at the achievements of their nation’s history, he reached for the Sagas. “My thoughts fly to…