What is the best-known book set on Iceland?

[nwhyte]

See note on methodology

Some difficult judgements to be made here. A famous 1864 SF novel must be disqualified because only a short but memorable section is set on Iceland, the main action taking place in an underground setting completely implausible to today's geologists. It is of course:

Comments

iceland

[anonymous]

Back to Dorothy Dunnett:
To Lie with Lions (1995)

[seawasp]

Ha! Finally one of the countries I've actually been to!

[bopeepsheep]

There's no justification (or contradiction) for it in the books or TV as far as I know but in my head Noggin the Nog is an Icelander.

[Since the visuals for Noggin are based on the Lewis chessmen, and these are claimed by some to be Icelandic rather than Norwegian, there's even a bit of a valid basis to this. I did not know that until I just looked it up!]

[bohemiancoast]

I came here to say 'of course there's no proof but Noggin the Nog is Icelandic'...