Item Detail
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28156
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English
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Freedom of Religion and the First Civil Marriage in Iceland
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Mormon Historical Studies
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2016
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17
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1 & 2
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Salt Lake City Utah
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The Mormon Historic Sites Foundation
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263-275
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"The extraordinary tidings that a county magistrate had performed a wedding ceremony shortly after the advent of the first Icelandic constitution in 1874 came therefore as a total surprise to the public in this somewhat stagnant society. This unusual wedding ceremony was the first civil marriage in the history of Iceland.
The bride and groom were two Mormons living in Vestmannaeyjar, Magnus Kristjansson and Puridur Sigurdardottir.
Their story will be told here in connection with ideas on religious freedom, which had been forming in the last years of the eighteenth and the first years of the nineteenth century."
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