Already in the saga of the Song of the Nibelungs, Brünhild, Queen of Iceland, is mentioned, who is recruited by Siegfried under the protection of his invisibility cloak during a journey to the far north for King Gunther (who has his power base in Worms).

The priest Dankbrand (or Thangbrand, in Icelandic Þangbrandr), an envoy of the Norwegian king, was also committed to this a few years later.

Didrik Pining from Hildesheim, a participant in an international expedition with João Vaz Corte-Real, among others, which was to re-establish contact with Greenland in 1473-76 and is said to have reached the North American mainland in the process, was governor of Iceland from 1478 to 1490.

From the point of view of the Icelanders, this peace was a perpetuation of Denmark's dominance over their country, which had already been ruled by Norway since 1380.

In November 1944, the shelling of the transport and passenger ship Goðafoss by a German submarine killed 24 people.

After World War II, the states of Germany and Iceland established diplomatic relations in 1952, at the request of Konrad Adenauer.

[4] From the 15th century, there were trade relations through the merchants of the Hanseatic League, which shaped the economic development of Iceland.

[1] In the three so-called Cod Wars, Iceland expanded its fishing limits from four to twelve, then to 50, and finally to 200 nautical miles.

[1] Trade relations through the merchants of the Hanseatic League in the 16th century brought the art of printing and impulses for the Reformation to Iceland.

The Bishop of Skálholt Gissur Einarsson, a proponent of the Reformation, stayed in Germany for several years; he arranged for a translation of the New Testament of Luther's Bible into Icelandic.

[1] German natural scientist Robert Bunsen traveled to Iceland in the mid-19th century and explained the geyser phenomenon.