Icelandic Sheepdog

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About the Icelandic Sheepdog

The Icelandic Sheepdog, is an Icelandic breed of dog of Nordic Spitz type. It derives from dogs brought to Iceland by Viking settlers in the ninth century; it is both similar and closely related to the Buhund of Norway and the Vallhund and Norrbottenpets of Sweden, which derive from the same ancestral stock.

Text from the Wikipedia article “Icelandic Sheepdog” (lead section), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Type	Spitz, sled & primitive dogs
Origin (Wikidata)	Iceland
Map pin	Representative point in Iceland (not an exact location)
Height	Males: 46 cm (18 in) Females: 42 cm (17 in)
Weight	9–14 kg (20–31 lb)
Size class	Medium (our grouping, from the weight above)
FCI classification	Group 5 (standard no. 289)
Wikidata	Q38710

Height and weight as given in the infobox of the Wikipedia article (CC BY-SA 4.0), with unit conversions added; we omit figures we cannot read reliably.

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