Month: November 2016

Snorrilaug and the Ganges

In 2014 I visited Reykholt as part of a sort of saga pilgrimage. Here is the hot pot known as Snorrilaug, or Snorri’s Bath. It...

Skallagrim’s Horse

In the middle of a small park in a small town not far from Reykjavik, there is a grass-covered mound. No fence protects it from...

Weekends

Remember the line from a Primus song that goes, “Funny thing about weekends when you’re unemployed. They don’t mean so much, except you get to...

Snorri Sturluson

I once stood among a group of writers at a talk presented by then-Icelandic President Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson. He said that we would notice Iceland had...

New Releases

I didn’t have any government work in October, so it felt like a slow month. But when it comes to content marketing and features writing,...