1.   But when he applied to the National Institutes of Health for a grant to study multiple sclerosis in Icelandic families, he was turned down.

2.   Distantly related members of Icelandic families would not suffice to show up a link between genes and disease, he was told.

3.   Kjartansson, who also plays in the bands Kanada and Trabant, is the progeny of a spectacular Icelandic family.

4.   Bjork, from a bohemian musical Icelandic family, said that music could succeed where politics failed.