- History of Icelandics 11

Hutchinson's Dog Encyclopaedia, London, 1935, Walter Hutchinson



"Iceland Dog - - with short snipy muzzle, ears with the tips hanging down, long coat, and short, slender legs. - - - a small sheepdog, about nineteen inches high. The head is arched; the muzzle short and snipy; the hair on the tail itself thick; the tail itself curled at the end; the legs of middle size, high and slender. The colour is mostly blackish-grey, but the neck, the chest, the belly, and the inside of the legs, white." - Dr.Walther, 1817, Germany.


" - - -the Iceland Dog looks very much like the dog of Greenland, from which it differs only in coat and undercoat, which are not quite as long as its Polar cousin's. The head is almost the same shape with erect ears, the tips somewhat inclined downwards. - - - the colour is principally white over the entire body, with large patches, but black ones are met with sometimes." - Thomas Brown, 1829

"- - -The head is more round and the muzzle more snipy than the Eskimo Dog, but it has the Eskimo Dog's coat, and the size is about that of the Kamtschatka. The colour is either black and white or brown and white, and the ears are erect." - Hamilton Smith, Mammalia, Volume X, 1840.

(From The Iceland Dog 874 - 1956, Mark Watson )

Den Store Hundeborg (The Big Book of Dogs), Copenhagen, 1938, Fr. Clausens Forlag


"The Iceland Dog is of an old, but little known origin. He is a very fine watchdog, extremely intelligent, kind to everybody.
As a sheepdog, he is almost without comparison, and he can without the help of people look after the sheep, the goats and the cows, and gather them for milking at certain hours. In appearance he is very much like the Eskimo dog from Greenland, except for the hair which is a little shorter."