Nationalist Party (Iceland)

[2] This initial departure of the more moderate tendency ensured that the Nationalist Party proved more radical and extremist than either of its predecessor groups.

[4] Adopting some of the militaristic trappings of fascism, the party organised a number of marching squads which paraded on May 1 carrying both the Icelandic flag and the swastika.

[5] The party produced a newspaper Ísland (Iceland) and a periodical Mjölnir (named after Thor's hammer), although they did not adopt the führerprinzip associated with Nazism as the movement had four different leaders in its brief life.

[5] The Nationalist Party failed to gain representation, except on the University of Iceland Student Council, where they held one seat for four years running.

[4] The marching squads appeared for the last time in 1938, whilst the 1939 Aims of the Nationalist Party was their last major publication, apart from sporadic issues of Island.

Nationalist march in Reykjavík , ca. 1930s.