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I went to Iceland again this year, and there was so much I wanted to write about it and never got around to. Likewise, there...

My mom is really into genealogy, and when I was a kid, we always had to stop at old graveyards to look for our ancestors....

  Obviously, this house and its attendant church are much more recent constructions than the house that Egil Skallagrimsson built. But this is Egil’s Farm....

  “Once during winter, there was a ball game at Borg. Egil and Thord played against Skallagrim, who grew tired and they came off better....

When I drove across the bridge, I was so busy looking for oncoming traffic I almost missed the sign: Hvitá On the other side, I...