Denmark's towering Christian X kings it over two separate realms. The second is a subarctic island covered with glaciers and boiling volcanoes, vast lava beds, gravel deserts and eternal clouds of sand and pumice dust. This is Iceland, whose 115,000 proud citizens are chiefly crowded in the lowlying southwestern corner of their grim island. Iceland won home rule in 1874, independent sovereignty in 1918. To show Icelanders that he takes his job as King of Iceland dead seriously, King Christian learned some Icelandic. Last week, for the first time in six years, King Christian paid Iceland a...
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