If we want to embrace our heritage, we must know a number of basic things about the Iceland of the 1800s. Even some of the most ordinary things are so different that, today, they require explanation.
For example, in Canada, land is valued and sold by size. In Iceland our families valued land by what it produced. That value wasn
Tom Oleson, writer, reporter, columnist
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INLReadsSigga’s Prayer
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Embrace Our Heritage Part 7
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Embrace Our Heritage Part 6
In 1872 when Richard Burton visits Iceland, he says
Embrace Our Heritage Part 5
Reykjavik
The stories in What The Bear Said are set in one or more of these three worlds.
Embrace Our Heritage Part 4
The World In Between
The world in between. That was the world of my great great grandparents, those people who could legitimately claim to be Icelandic while living in Canada. Born in Iceland, emigrating, And then adapting and integrating them with the world of New Iceland.
bringing with them memories of Icelandic life and landscape, Icelandic ways of thinking and believing, Icelandic traditions.
viking vs dairy farmer
Embrace Our Heritage Part 3
The theme of the Brandon INL annual conference was
The Vikings are Coming
Photos by W. D. Valgardson
The vikings will be on the hill at Gimli. In their chain mail and metal helmets. They
