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by Sunna Olafson Furstenau Continuing the North America Icelandic settlement theme, Sunna addresses the many areas of North Dakota our ancestors called home, even temporarily. Many towns and villages, although mostly abandoned or forgotten, uphold an enduring legacy binding their past to our present. When people think of Icelandic settlements in North Dakota, they usually think of Mountain and Gardar first. Perhaps Akra and Cavalier come to mind as well. But the Icelandic sto

Our researchers put many hours into public record searches and maintain community connections to help keep the database up to date, but most of our contemporary information comes from you—our members, supporters, and followers.

Halldóra Guðmundsdóttir, an Icelandic immigrant who was a midwife and caregiver in Duluth Minnesota.

by Shaune Jonasson In this article Icelandic Roots pays homage to our own Icelandic-Canadian hockey heroes. As we approach this year's XXV Olympic Games in Milano-Cortina, we acknowledge The Winnipeg Falcons - the first team to win an Olympic Gold Medal for amateur hockey. Many of us in North America are blanketed in white. It’s winter and it’s cold. Regardless of how we spend the season, outdoors or inside staying warm, one thing is certain: it’s hockey season. Winter is

by Rob Olason The Icelandic Roots 2026 focus is “Exploring and Documenting Local Icelandic Settlements in North America.” In 2025, the focus was on Icelandic art and culture in Iceland and North America. 2024 saw us focusing on the Settlement Era of Iceland around the first millennium. We inaugurated the idea of focusing on a specific topic in 2023 when we explored Icelandic emigration to North America and other continents. The idea of examining a focus topic each year doesn’

Minneota: Celebrating 150 years since the 1875 Icelandic Immigration By Elaine Olafson Henry Photos provided by the author The Minneota...

By Heather Goodman Lytwyn The Tricking of Freya, a novel by Christina Sunley, is one of the first contemporary novels by an American...