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,...

What Egil Saw

This is the view from the hill above the house that is built on the sight of the farm where Egil Skallagrimsson lived a thousand...