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A Snorri West - Icelandic Roots Success Story
Jody Arman-Jones, Co-Director Snorri West Program One of the tenets of the Snorri West program is to attempt to identify and facilitate...
Mar 154 min read
Don’t Be a Tourist, Be a Snorri!
Note: Deadlines for Snorri and Snorri Plus 2025 have been extended! Snorri applications will be accepted until Monday, February 17....
Jan 314 min read
My 2024 Snorri Adventure
By Maia Chapman Editor's Note: If you are interested in joining the Snorri Program in 2025, the application deadline is Monday, January...
Dec 7, 20243 min read
Discovering Your Roots Through Language
Note: Icelandic Language Day (dagur íslenskrar tungu, English: "day of the Icelandic tongue") is celebrated each year on November 16....
Nov 9, 20243 min read
Meditation on Family and Home - Snorri 2024
By Audrey Ledford From Seattle, Washington, Audrey is a recent graduate of Georgetown University with a B.S in Foreign Service and...
Oct 11, 20246 min read
Snorri 2024: Magna Goodman Deepened Her Roots
Snorri 2024 Magna Goodman Deepened Her Roots
Sep 28, 20248 min read
The Worst Week and the Best Day
Editor's Note: Emma Kaliel wrote this account about her 2023 Snorri Experience. The 2024 Snorri participants are currently engaged in...
Jun 22, 20243 min read
Meet the Snorri West 2024 Participants!
Snorri West Participants in 2024
Apr 25, 20245 min read
2023 Snorri Plus Experience: A Summer Adventure in Iceland
By Terri Kristjanson Wintonyk After hearing about the Snorri Plus program on an Icelandic Roots Samtal Hour, I was hooked! Participating...
Dec 9, 20233 min read
Samkoma-A New Way To Participate in Icelandic Roots
-Samkoma-expanding our Icelandic Roots online community Have you read about our unique online events and wanted to join our online...
Aug 6, 20232 min read
IR Podcast: Emigration, Geology, and Hot Dogs
Join the Icelandic Roots podcast team and learn how these three unique elements are related to one Snorri individual. By Jack Plumley, a...
May 27, 20232 min read
Many IR Teammates Gather in Banff
Twenty-three Icelandic Roots volunteers and five family members are in Banff celebrating the Icelandic National League's Convention...
May 14, 20233 min read
Interesting Icelanders
A monthly feature profiling an interesting person of Icelandic birth or ancestry found in the Icelandic Roots database. This is the first...
Apr 30, 20232 min read
Snorri Scholarships 2023
Introducing six Snorri scholarship recipients that will be travelling to Iceland this summer for a life-changing cultural experience....
Apr 30, 20233 min read
Ode To Iceland
2022 Snorri participant Jessica Drake wrote the following poem to commemorate her experience in the Snorri program. She then set the poem...
Apr 28, 20231 min read
Snorris, Samtals and New Podcasts
Two members of Icelandic Roots' new Podcast Team dropped into Judy Dickson's most recent Samtal Hour and shared what they've been working...
Apr 16, 20232 min read
What is an Icelander?
Editor's Note: This speech was delivered by Sigfús Haukur Sigfússon, Snorri West 2022 participant, to the INL Iceland convention on...
Dec 25, 20223 min read
Experience of a Lifetime
-By Owen Roberts The Snorri Trip was an experience of a lifetime. From the moment I stepped onto the Icelandair flight in Toronto, it...
Dec 11, 20222 min read
Could You Be A Snorri?
2022 was a banner year for the unique collaboration between North American Icelandic groups and Iceland. Known as the Snorri Program, ...
Nov 10, 20222 min read
My Journey
By Brian Borgford She had just celebrated her tenth birthday and was alone, on a six-thousand-mile journey to join her widowed father in...
Nov 10, 20222 min read
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