Last night, I ,and a group of my friends, went to Riverton, Manitoba, to hear the Kvennak
Kvennak
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Thor’s hammer:Icelandic Celebration, 2012
That Thor was raging about was first noticeable during the Gimli Film Festival. During the showing of the
Vinarterta by M
At the heart of the heart of Icelandic North American culture is not Vikings, or horses or sheep, or fishing or Black Death or language, no, they are not the centre of our culture, nor is religion, Lutheran, Unitarian, nor the sagas, no, nope, the centre of all things Icelandic North American is vinarterta. Traditionally, it is a seven layer prune torte, with thin biscuit layers, sometimes iced, sometimes not.
In the old days, people were buried with a copy of the Passion Hymns. Nowadays, they
Robyn Shesterniak had a table at the Gimli Park Pavilion. Shesterniaksdottir? Nope. An Icelandic mother, nope. But, there on the table in front of her was an alphabet book for the Icelandic letters. Bright, colorful, attractive, just the thing for a little kid learning the A,B,Cs or the
Icelandic Celebration Parade
Here are a couple of Vikings guarding the entrance to the parade marshaling grounds. If the Viking ships had crew like these, they could have conquered whole armies by just sending them ashore and having them say
The Icelandic Festival began today. There’ll be four days of music, speeches, sand castle building, races, beach volleyball. There’ll be an impressive Icelandic women’s choir called Kvennak
Fagrabakka
Graveyards, oooohhhhhh, spooky places when I was a kid. The only spookier place was the undertakers. If I had to go past either, I got to the other side of the street or the road, moved quickly and, sometimes, whistled. I
A Night to Remember On Lake Winnipeg
By Ken Kristjanson. Ken is writing a series of articles from
On The Beach
They
The Gimli Film Festival: Meet The Fokkins
Yesterday, I watched two full-length documentaries at the Lady of the Lake Theatre. The first was a Mexican film called El ultimate bolero. It
