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[BLOG REWIND: This story was originally posted to the blog in 2017 in promotion of the INLNA convention that year. You can read the original blog post here.]...

Icelandic Roots is delighted to announce that Gísli Pálsson (anthropologist) and Hákon Már Oddsson (film maker) have given us permission to promote and host ...

By: Þórdís Edda Guðjónsdóttir Íslensk útgáfa hér að neðan / Icelandic text to follow September is a busy month for farmers in Iceland. This is the month of ...

By Bryndís Víglundsdóttir Mid July 1961. The days were still fusing with the nights and the nights with the days. We had been working all day at planting t...

Heidi Herman-Kerr Icelandic National League of the United States Íeda Jónasdóttir Herman is an unassuming, 94-year-old Iceland native who considers her time ...

By Julie Summers Reykjavík, Iceland This is the second post in a series about people who have discovered their Icelandic roots – or connected to them more de...

By Julie Summers, Reykjavik, Iceland Many North Americans of Icelandic descent have fond memories of family traditions passed down from generation to generat...

Stronger Together is not just a cute slogan. It means something and is practiced in our Icelandic Roots Community. Our recent blog posts have been about the ...

A new Icelandic Children's book is coming out in the USA in April. The Casket of Time by Andri Snær Magnason. This book was a best seller in Iceland, winner ...

There’s always another great story to be discovered in the Icelandic Roots database! The iron screw steamer ship Copeland, built in Britain in 1874, was used...

Þórður Árelíus Ólafsson aka Theodore Arthur Olafson (IR# I574371) wrote this story, in Icelandic, about his journey to America. Traveling with Þórður was his...

Egill Skallagrímsson is considered the greatest Icelandic poet from the settlement period in Iceland. He was a chieftain and heathen priest. His home was cal...

It has been too cold around here for men to be running around their house barefoot and bare-legged! My husband says we should delay Bóndadagur until spring. ...

Sveinn Magnússon was a talented photographer in Minneota, which is a large Icelandic settlement in southwest Minnesota. His photography studio was in the Th...

Icelandic Roots has a large and varied community. Our volunteers live in Iceland, USA, Canada, and Australia. Today, we share some insight into a very specia...

Forthcoming Feature Film, “Gold on Ice” Honors the Icelandic-Canadian Hockey Players Who Took Home the First Olympic Gold in Ice Hockey Much like the Iceland...

Dear friends, This newsletter is for all people with Icelandic connections in North America. There are two projects started by our team in Iceland - The Snor...

Dear friends, A wonderful team in Iceland has been collaborating on a very important project. Their plan is to produce a documentary that focuses on the expe...

Here we are at the end of March with snow on the ground and bitter cold in the forecast. The following is a true story about a pioneer Icelandic mother named...

by Elin de Ruyter, Australia We surely owe much to the memories of our midwife ancestors, who helped birth the people of our small nation of Iceland. These w...