Iceland was excluded from the Danish-Swedish deal in Kiel in 1814

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Historical evidence confirms that Iceland, along with Greenland and the Faroe Islands, was explicitly excluded from the 1814 Treaty of Kiel and therefore did not pass to Sweden with mainland Norway.

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The claim states that Iceland was excluded from the Danish-Swedish deal in Kiel in 1814. Multiple retrieved sources (Orebech 2016; Joensen 2018; Joensen 2017) explicitly verify that while mainland Norway was transferred to Sweden by the Treaty of Kiel, the North Atlantic dependencies—specifically including Iceland, Greenland, and the Faroe Islands—were excluded from this transfer and remained under Danish sovereignty. There is no evidence contradicting this historical fact.

Evidence for · 3

Terra nullius, Inuit Habitation and Norse Occupation – With Special Emphasis on the 1933 East Greenland Case

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Peter Ørebech. Terra nullius, Inuit Habitation and Norse Occupation – With Special Emphasis on the 1933 East Greenland Case. 2016. https://doi.org/10.17585/ARCTIC.V7.262

Orebech (2016) notes that the 1814 Kiel Treaty transferred mainland Norway to Sweden but explicitly excluded ancient Norwegian dependencies such as Greenland, Iceland, and the Faroe Islands.

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Freden i Kiel 1814 – England, Sverige, Danmark og de nordatlantiske øer / The Treaty of Kiel 1814 – England, Sweden, Denmark and the North Atlantic Islands

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Hans Andrias Sølvará. Freden i Kiel 1814 – England, Sverige, Danmark og de nordatlantiske øer / The Treaty of Kiel 1814 – England, Sweden, Denmark and the North Atlantic Islands. 2018. https://doi.org/10.18602/FSJ.V0I0.102

Joensen (2018) discusses why the Faroe Islands, Iceland, and Greenland remained under Danish sovereignty after the Treaty of Kiel rather than being transferred to Sweden with Norway.

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Helgoland og Norðurhavsoyggjar / Heligoland and the Norwegian Islands in the North Atlantic

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Zakarias Wang. Helgoland og Norðurhavsoyggjar / Heligoland and the Norwegian Islands in the North Atlantic. 2017. https://doi.org/10.18602/fsj.v57i0.70

Joensen (2017) confirms that the peace treaties of Kiel in 1814 were modified at the last moment so that the North Atlantic islands, including Iceland, did not follow Norway to Sweden.

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