Category: 1000 Words

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...

Graveyards

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....

Egil’s House

  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....

Brákarsund

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

Opportunity

    You can’t tell from this photo – or any of the dozen others I took at this spot – but the fish are...