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Bishop Guðmundur Góði Arason (1161-1237)
Profiling Bishop Guðmundur Góði, or Guðmundur the Good 1161-1237
Mar 155 min read
Interesting Icelander for March 2025
Jón Leifs, Icelandic Composer by Gay Strandemo Welcome to our Interesting Icelander series for 2025 with a focus on Icelandic Art and...
Mar 154 min read
Interesting Icelander for February 2025
Welcome to our Interesting Icelander series for 2025, with a focus on Icelandic Art and Culture. Our June profile explores the life and...
Feb 154 min read
Interesting Icelander for January 2025
Edgar Holger Cahill remarkable and compelling life story and legacy.
Jan 187 min read
Rikkard (Richard) Hansson Beck 1897-1980
Richard Beck noted Icelandic-American scholar, teacher, writer and poet
Jan 34 min read
Interesting Icelander for December - Rósa Guðmundsdóttir
Welcome to the last instalment of our Interesting Icelanders for 2024. We hope you enjoy the story about a poet who is revered today for...
Dec 7, 20244 min read
Interesting Icelander for November: Vilhjálmur Stefánsson
Interesting Icelander for November 2024
Nov 21, 20244 min read
Interesting Icelander for October - Skalla-Grímur
Interesting Icelander for October 2024 is Skalla-Grímur Kveldúlfsson.
Oct 25, 20245 min read
Interesting Icelander for September: Jón Árnason
Jón Árnason, an accomplished wealthy landowner and farmer, a parliamentarian, a sheriff, and father of many.
Sep 14, 20243 min read
Interesting Icelander for July: Helgi “magri” Eyvindarson
Helgi, one of the “most excellent settlers” in the Northern part of Iceland.
Jul 20, 20243 min read
Secrets Beneath the Earth in an Icelandic Cemetery
We’ve been working on a mystery, and for now … it remains unsolved. Where is the exact burial location? The secrets are beneath the earth.
Jun 29, 20246 min read
Interesting Icelander for June: Geirmund "Heljarskinns" Hjörsson
by Alfreda Duffy Landnámabók (The Book of Settlements) describes Geirmund as “the noblest of all settlers.” According to my Google search...
Jun 22, 20249 min read
The Viking of the 21st Century
Part Three: Gunnar Marel Eggertsson, Welcome back to our third and final instalment of the Viking of the 21st Century series. Part One...
Jun 8, 20246 min read
The Viking of the 21st Century
Part Two: Íslendingur and her voyage Welcome back to the second of the three-part series of The 21st Century Icelander. We will explore...
May 25, 20245 min read
Interesting Icelander for May - Gunnar Gunnarsson
By Sunna Olafson Furstenau Gunnar Gunnarsson (1889-1975 and IR Database I160778) is an Icelandic writer of over 20 novels and many other...
May 25, 20243 min read
Submit an article to Rætur Fréttir/Roots News
Do you have an idea for an interesting article? A story about your ancestor? A travel report about your latest visit to Iceland? We're...
May 11, 20242 min read
The Viking of the 21st Century
Viking Ships
May 11, 20244 min read
Bryndís & Gay Introduce Thor, the Final Book of a Trilogy
Bryndís Víglundsdóttir and Gay Strandemo share their thoughts upon completing their collaboration on the trilogy of stories Bryndís...
May 11, 20245 min read
April’s Interesting Icelander: Halldor Laxness, Iceland’s Literary Icon
By Doreen (Borgfjord) McFarlane For its small size and population, Iceland is a giant when it comes to literary accomplishments as well...
Apr 25, 20244 min read
Ari the Wise: Our Interesting Icelander for March 2024
By Gay Strandemo This month we continue learning about interesting Icelanders that were important to the settlement era of Iceland. As a...
Mar 15, 20243 min read
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