Is Iceland’s Althing the Oldest Parliament in the world?

Image from The Reykyavik Grapevine: Oddur “the strong” Sigurgeirsson in Viking costume for the 1930 festival marking the founding of the Althing. In 1930 Iceland celebrated the thousandth anniversary of the founding of the Althing, the body which now serves as Iceland’s national political and legislative assembly. The King and Queen (of Denmark, and of…