Air Force Girls In Rescue Teams
Icelandic Roots Genealogist Doreen "Kristy" Kristjanson shared the following story from the Icelandic Roots database: Anna Louise Peden...
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- Oct 30
- 1 min
Three Brothers Who Served
The book “Veterans of Icelandic Descent World War II” published by the Jon Sigurdsson Chapter IODE (1990) includes a lengthy chapter that...
- Oct 14
- 4 min
The Viking Immigrants: Icelandic North Americans
The Icelandic Roots Book Club Nov 3 Featuring: The Viking Immigrants: Icelandic North Americans with L.K. Bertram By Heather Goodman...
- Oct 2
- 5 min
LEIFUR EIRÍKSSON DAY
by Doreen (Borgfjord) McFarlane In the month of October, we celebrate everyone’s favourite Viking, Leifur Eiríksson. (Unlike German, the...
- Sep 4
- 3 min
2022 IR Fitness Challenge Completed
The Icelandic Roots Fitness Challenge 2022 officially ended on August 6th. Altogether there were 14 teams ranging from 2 to 10 people and...
- Aug 20
- 1 min
Write Your Family Story
Coming fall 2022 - Icelandic Roots Members Only Writing Seminars We believe your life story is important and deserves to be written down...
- Aug 20
- 2 min
Finding Point Roberts, Washington, U.S.A.
Point Roberts is a geo-political oddity. The western United States-Canadian border follows the 49th parallel because of the Oregon Treaty...
- Aug 20
- 3 min
Walking Tour of Reykjavik Public Sculptures
As visitors to Reykjavik quickly discover, the city loves its public sculptures. Whether in parks, squares or adorning public buildings,...
- Jun 19
- 4 min
Bárðar Saga Snæfellsáss
Probably the best-known saga to highlight Snæfellsnesi is Bárðar Saga Snæfellsáss (The Saga of Bárður God of Snæfellsnes). This saga...
- Jun 5
- 6 min
One Day on Snaefellsnes
by Christal (Oliver) Speer IR# 637679 On a beautiful sunny day in June 2004, my family and I headed in our rented van to the Snaefellsnes...
- Jun 5
- 1 min
The Icelandic Root’s Book Club begins this week!
We are excited to launch our book club with a webinar by the First Lady of Iceland, Eliza Reid, talking about her new book, Secrets of...
- Jun 5
- 2 min
A Treasured Memory
By Christal Speer On a family vacation to Iceland in 2004, one of the first places we visited was the marvelous Skogar Folk Museum in...
- Apr 8
- 3 min
Join The Icelandic Roots Book Club
By Heather Goodman Lytwyn Winnipeg, Manitoba No Time to Read? If you are a member of Icelandic Roots, you will have seen the article...
- Apr 2
- 3 min
Icelandic Roots Online Book Club
Our new book club will be launched on Wednesday, June 8, 2022, with the First Lady of Iceland, Eliza Reid! We are so honored to host her...
- Mar 25
- 4 min
Skálholt-The Religious, Cultural and Educational Center of Early Iceland
Skálholt Church photo by Jody Arman-Jones Located in the southern part of the Biskupstungur valley between the rivers Hvítá and Brúará,...
- Mar 13
- 2 min
Guðríður Arrives in Vinland 2022
We are so excited to announce Guðríður's Saga is available for purchase! The children's book and complementary coloring book will be...
- Mar 12
- 3 min
Destination Egilsstaðir
Life in Iceland was harsh in the mid-to-late 1800s. At the time, Iceland was part of the Kingdom of Denmark, and Denmark had largely...
- Mar 12
- 5 min
Fljótsdæla saga
Fljótsdæla saga was the last of the forty family sagas written. It was likely written in the 15th or 16th Century. Most believe it was...
- Mar 11
- 3 min
The Irish In Iceland
The oral history of Iceland was written down about 1125 and states that ”Christian men” (called Papar by the Norse settlers) were there...
- Feb 26
- 5 min
How I Handled Research for My Memoir
By Sverrir Sigurdsson A memoirist is supposed to depend mainly on his memory. For me, though, I wanted my memoir to reflect not just my...