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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
Celebrating Valentine’s Day
Celebrating Valentine's Day in Iceland
Jan 314 min read
Perpetual Sunlight, Seamless Bonds
By Magna Goodman, Snorri 2024 Editor's Note: If you are interested in joining the Snorri Program in 2025, the application deadline is...
Jan 38 min read
Endless Summer Sun, No Winter Fun
A summer in the Arctic in the Gwich’in community of Fort McPherson.
Jul 20, 20242 min read
Leaving for Iceland
The Icelandic Roots Writers Group used an exercise to create a dialogue between two people planning to emigrate. By Gay Strandemo Sogne...
Mar 27, 20242 min read
Nineteenth Century Education in/of Iceland: A Journey of Learning for Pliny Miles - 1852
By Brian Borgford “In fourteen hundred and ninety-two, Columbus sailed the Ocean Blue.” People of a certain age will remember the little...
Mar 15, 20243 min read
Iceland: An Outsider's View (1845)
by Brian Borgford “I must confess that I found the character of the Icelanders in every respect below the estimate I had previously...
Feb 29, 20243 min read
Icelandic Writers Retreat 2024
Scholarship applications for the 2024 Iceland Writers Retreat are available and being accepted through October 31st. The Iceland Writers...
Oct 1, 20231 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
Cue up the Icelandic Roots Podcast
Three 2022 Snorri Experience participants have joined forces to produce upcoming Icelandic Roots podcasts and have already released their...
Apr 16, 20232 min read
RIFF
The Reykjavík International Film Festival Becky Byerly-Adams If you are a cinema buff and are in Reykjavík between September 29th to...
Oct 2, 20224 min read
A Roots Road Trip
When most people visit Iceland they head to Reykjavik and take day trips to the Golden Circle and the South Coast as far as...
Sep 20, 202215 min read
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...
Sep 4, 20223 min read
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...
Jun 5, 20222 min read
Connecting landscape to literature in Dalasýsla
If you are interested in connecting events that took place in the Icelandic saga literature to the physical landscape of Iceland, then...
Jan 26, 20224 min read
The Deuce & the Dagurinn: Old Parties for a New Generation
North American Icelandic Heritage Festivals
Jul 17, 20213 min read
On the Set of Valhalla Murders
by Þórdís Edda Guðjónsdóttir *no plot spoilers* When I watch a movie or a TV show I often pay attention to the things that are in the...
Oct 23, 20202 min read
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