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The following lists events that happened in 1940 in Iceland .
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Gling-Gló is the only studio album by Björk Guðmundsdóttir & tríó Guðmundar Ingólfssonar, consisting of Björk Guðmundsdóttir on vocals, Guðmundur Ingólfsson on piano, Guðmundur Steingrímsson on drums, and Þórður Högnason on bass. The album's title "Gling-gló" is the Icelandic equivalent of the English onomatopoeia "ding dong", referring to the sound that a bell makes.
Björk Guðmundsdóttir & tríó Guðmundar Ingólfssonar was an Icelandic jazz music band. The band formed in 1990 when singer and songwriter Björk, who at the time sang for The Sugarcubes, joined the tríó Guðmundar Ingólfssonar with pianist Guðmundur Ingólfsson, drummer Guðmundur "Pappa Jazz" Steingrímsson, and bassist Þórður Högnason.
Rannveig Guðmundsdóttir is an Icelandic politician. She has served as a member of the Icelandic parliament, as Minister of Social Services in the Government of Iceland, and was President of the Nordic Council in 2005.
Guðmundsdóttir is a surname of Icelandic origin, meaning daughter of Guðmundur. In Icelandic names, the name is not strictly a surname, but a patronymic. The name may refer to:
The Iceland women's national handball team is the national handball team of Iceland and takes part in international team handball competitions. They qualified to the 2010 European Women's Handball Championship. This was the first time they qualified to any international championship. They finished with the 15th place. Two years later, at the 2012 European Women's Handball Championship, they managed the same results.
Southwest is one of the six multi-member constituencies of the Althing, the national legislature of Iceland. The constituency was established as Reykjanes in 1959 following the nationwide extension of proportional representation for elections to the Althing. It was renamed Southwest in 2003 when the Reykjanes area of constituency was merged into the Southern constituency following the re-organisation of constituencies across Iceland. Southwest is conterminous with the Capital region but excludes Reykjavík Municipality which has its own constituencies. The constituency currently elects 11 of the 63 members of the Althing using the open party-list proportional representation electoral system. At the 2021 parliamentary election it had 73,699 registered electors.
The First cabinet of Davíð Oddsson in Iceland was formed 30 April 1991.
Rósa Guðmundsdóttir (1795–1855), was an Icelandic poet. She belonged to the most known poets in Iceland of her time and is the author of many well known folk songs and poems in Icelandic.
María Guðmundsdóttir Toney was an Icelandic alpine ski racer. She won the Icelandic slalom championship four times and the giant slalom championship twice.
The Keflavík women's basketball team, commonly known as Keflavík, is the women's basketball department of Keflavík ÍF, based in the town of Reykjanesbær in Iceland. It is Iceland's most successful women's basketball team with 16 national championship. They currently play in Úrvalsdeild kvenna where they won the national championship in 2017. The club has won the Icelandic Basketball Cup a record fifteen times, including in 2017 and 2018.
María Guðmundsdóttir is an Icelandic filmmaker, photographer and model. She is a former supermodel and Miss Iceland in 1961.
Svava Rós Guðmundsdóttir is an Icelandic footballer, who has represented the Iceland women's national football team on numerous occasions. At club level, she currently plays for Sport Lisboa e Benfica on loan from NJ/NY Gotham.
Aðalheiður Guðmundsdóttir is an Icelandic professor of medieval Icelandic literature at the University of Iceland.
Lýðskólinn á Flateyri is a folk high school in Flateyri, Iceland.
Helga Rut Guðmundsdóttir is a professor of music education at the University of Iceland School of Education.
Margrét Rannveig Ólafsdóttir is an Icelandic former professional footballer. She played 51 times for the Iceland women's national football team, scoring eight goals. Except for the 2001 season, in which she played for the Philadelphia Charge of the Women's United Soccer Association, Margrét spent her entire playing career with Breiðablik.
Events in the year 2021 in Iceland.
Rannveig Þorsteinsdóttir was an Icelandic lawyer, judge, teacher, and politician. She was a Progressive Party member of the Alþingi, the national parliament of Iceland, from 1949 to 1953. In 1959, she became the first woman to practice law before the Supreme Court of Iceland.
Events in the year 1888 in Iceland.
Rannveig is a feminine given name of Old Norse. Notable people with the name are as follows: