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History Under Our Feet

The 2024 Icelandic Roots Fundraiser Start forming your team, it’s time for our annual fundraiser! Icelandic Roots is pleased to announce...

Registration for the Icelandic Roots Fitness Challenge 2023 is now Open!

Calling one and all! It's time! Registration is under way for this year's Fitness Challenge. Tighten your laces and let's get moving! Our...

Mathematician Michael Fell's Icelandic Library

The following article is submitted by the children of Michael and Daphne Fell: Peter Fell and Rachel Fell McDermott. They have made a...

Intergenerational Heroes - The Volunteer Team at Icelandic Roots

Guest Article by Arden Jackson CVO (Chief Vinarterta Officer) These pioneers work for the world they will leave behind. They are the...

Icelandic Roots Snorri Scholarships

By Doug Hanson A big part of the Icelandic Roots mission is to give back to the Icelandic Community through grants and scholarships. Each...

Paying It Forward in 2022

By Douglas Hanson The worldwide pandemic has upturned all our lives in the past two years. What was once routine became difficult or even...

Inspired by a Global Pandemic

While there is a long list of things that have gone wrong over the past two years due to a global pandemic from Covid-19, let's look at...

My Virtual Mission 2021

The Icelandic Roots Fitness Challenge 2021 was a big success. Our most popular mission was the Ring Road route, with 118 participants...

Summer Fitness Challenge 2.0 - Travel Iceland Virtually

Icelandic Roots is pleased to announce we will host our second annual Fitness Challenge this summer. It will be an eight-week event and will

Our First Annual Book Flood Guide

Icelanders celebrate Christmas with books. So much so that there is a word for the holiday book buying season: Jólabókaflóð or Christmas...

IR - Footprints 4 Fun Challenge

This is an invitation for all individuals and teams from your Icelandic organizations, clubs, and your family to join us in a collective,...

Pronouncing May 2019 as our First Pay it Forward Month!

Have you ever been in line at the grocery store, and just as you were about to pay, you realized that you were $2.00 short? Embarrassing...

Lifelong Love of Books

The Icelandic Roots Library has received a spectacular donation of thirty-eight (38) boxes of Icelandic books from George Hanson. We are...