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Icelandic Airlines: Twelve-passenger freighters of the Iceland Steamship Co. (consult Thule Ship Agency, 11 Broadway, New York) ply between New York and Reykjavik and the same line's 3800-ton passenger ship Gullfoss plies between Copenhagen, Leith (Edinburgh) and Reykjavik, but most American visitors nowadays go by air. As I have said in Chapter 5, Iceland has developed two systems of air transportation, Icelandic Airlines (Loftleidir in Icelandic), which provides transatlantic flights from New York to Reykjavik and on to Scandinavia and Hamburg (and vice versa), and Iceland Airways (Flugfelag Islands), which operates many local routes in Iceland, besides having lines to London and Scandinavia, though not to New York. It is the Aiiways system that concerns us on the island.
4, 5. Icelandic Art, Ancient and Modern The National Art Gallery, a splendid modern building, houses Icelandic treasures dating back, in some cases, to about 900. There are beautiful wood carvings, finely fashioned drinking horns, Viking Ornaments in various materials and early ecclesiastical vestments and works of religious art. There is one original sculpture by Bertel Thorvaldsen, whose father was an Icelandic wood carver.
The return from north-i Europe to America was made by Icelandic Airlines, from Hamburg to New rk, with stopover in Reykjavik to visit Iceland, a member country of the ropean Travel Commission. Two other world systems, British Overseas Air-ys (BOAC) and Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS), were used in overseas ;hts and many lesser leaps while preparing recent earlier books (SAS was also :d extensively within Scandinavia for this book's travels). These six, together h Belgium's widely ramifying Sabena, may be considered the Big Seven of nsatlantic and world coverage, though several smaller systems also provide nsatlantic flights.
Flights within Europe, made for this book, involved the lines of ten nations addition to numbers of in-Europe flights on planes of the Big Fellows men-ied above. These lesser lines shall be presented following discussion of the nt networks.
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