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Icelandic
Icelandic is spoken by 247,600 people:
230,000 in Iceland,
9,700 in USA,
7,900 in Canada.
 

Publishing History

The New Testament was first published in 1540.
The complete Bible was first published in 1584.
This Page
This shows the first few verses from John's Gospel in the Thordarsson version, first published in 1981 by Icelandic Bible Society, Reykjavik. This page is taken from a New Testament published in 1993 by Icelandic Bible Society, Reykjavik.