Here´s Viðar Viðar Hreinsson has come and gone. We are better for his visit. Viðar is the author of Wakeful Nights, the biography…
At the end of Thorgerdur Einarsdóttir’s (professor of Gender Studies, University of Iceland) Beck lecture on the Viking Banksters, she included a poem…
It snowed last night. The morning was pristine white. The snow here is soft, fluffy, dry unlike the wet heavy snow of the West Coast.…
I think I love cooking because both my mother and father loved cooking. The sweet and sour pickerel cheeks, the baked whitefish, the pickerel fillets,…
If your ancestors lived in Reykjavik or, more likely, visited there to trade, who would they have dealt with? Who were the people who decided…
So, your Great Great amma Runa or Helga or Sigrun has convinced your great great grandfather, Gunnar or Helgi or Bjarni, to take her with…
Ketil and Sophia. He may have come to Canada with nothing but he became a dairyman, a farmer, a general merchant. He prospered. In…
Sunna Pam Furstenau. Photo taken by her cousin, Hjálmar Stefán Brynjólfsson. The upphlutur is modern and was sewn by Oddný Kristjaánsdóttir. One…
Today, as I sorted through a box of loose pictures from my mother’s house, I came across a rather beat up envelope. It just had…
By Ken Kristjanson. Ken is writing a series of articles from his experiences living in Gimli, Manitoba in a commercial fishing family and his experiences…