Iceland's national anthem is pretty much unsingable, just like the American one, as Michael Kinsley recently pointed out in the Washington Post. Unless you have had a few years worth of voice lessons, it really is impossible to sing, not even after alcoholic fortification.
The Icelandic anthem, "Ó Guð vors land" (Our Country's God), is actually a hymn (Iceland has a state church) and requires a vocal range of a minor fourteenth. Many Icelanders want to change the anthem...
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