Iceland and United States national anthem

ICELAND-Our country's God! Our country's God!We worship Thy name in its wonder sublime.The suns of the heavens are set in Thy crownBy Thy legions, the ages of time!With Thee is each day as a thousand years,Each thousand of years, but a day,Eternity's flow'r, with its homage of tears,That reverently passes away; Iceland's thousand years!, ;:Eternity's flow'r, with its homage of tears,That reverently passes away.

UNITED STATES-Oh, say! can you see by the dawn's early lightWhat so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming;Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight,O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air,Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there:Oh, say! does that star-spangled banner yet waveO'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep,Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,In fully glory reflected now shines in the stream:'Tis the star-spangled banner! Oh, long may it waveO'er the land of the free and the home of the brave


These two national anthems emphasis deeply passion for the land by their people .The Icelandic national anthem is more of in the religious aspect and the United State national anthem is more o patriotism and fighting for ones one cause. The Icelandic National anthem during an age of relative peace and at a time when the Icelandic people where deeply involved in looking into the troubles of their own nation. In contrast the United States national anthem was written at a time of war when moral was seeming low and the young U.S. was fighting what seemed to be a second war of independence from the British. The two national anthems express deeply passionate feelings towards the land for which its citizens love.