Þetta er smá texti sem ég gerði á ensku um íslenska hestinn, vonandi er ykkur sama um að hann sé á ensku (nenni einganveginn að þýða þetta aftur yfir) allavegna eru heimildir teknar af heimasíðu um Íslenskahestinn því miður man ég ekki hvað hún heitir en þið finnið hana með því að googela “fífubleikur”

One of the most fascinationg feature of the Icelandic horse is it's extreme genetic purity. No infusions of outside blod has propably happened to the icelandic horses for over 800 years, and there is only one breed of horses in Iceland. If a horse leaves Iceland for a competition, it can never return. Virtually all contagious diseases, from which horses on the European continent or in the USA suffer, are unknown in Iceland. As knights in armour weren't in Iceland in the middle ages, the demand for heavy trotting horses wasn't here as it was in Europe. Icelanders wanted a smooth, fast, energetic horse, that could be used for trekking for weeks without getting sick or giving their rider a sore butt. So the tolt, pace and hardiness was never lost in this wonderful breed. It is still traditional in Iceland to cull bad horses humanely, and eat horsemeat, ensuring that mostly just the good horses are bred.
The Icelandic horse is enormously muscular, and with very dense bones, often with a heavy head and compact body. This breed is possessed of great agility and is also very sure-footed. It carries grown men, even heavy men, at speed without tiring. As the breed has been isolated for so long, it is distinctive from other breeds in sometimes unforeseen ways. For example, their blood is different, and vets that don't know the breed often think they are anemic. They can also digest cellulose much more efficiently than other breeds (they've got smaller small intestine but bigger large intestine, appendix and colon than other breeds). They also have a much higher ratio of red muscle fibers which use oxygen better than white fibers. Icelandics also have more fat than most other horses in their muscle cells and this fat can be metabolized quickly, which is probably a big part of their enormous stamina (because the Icelandic horse wastes less energy by sweating, and uses the energy to work instead).