16th century in Iceland

the 16th century transition to Lutheranism in the realms ruled by the Copenhagen-based House of Oldenburg

The '''Guðbrand's Bible' ( ; full title: Biblia þad er Øll heilog ritning, vtlögd a norrænu. Med formalum doct. Martini Lutheri. Prentad a Holum/Af Jone Jons Syne'') was the first translation of the full Bible into the Icelandic language.

religious schism in the middle of the 16th century, when King Christian III of Denmark imposed Lutheranism on the Icelanders