Category: Iceland

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...

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...

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....