Dr. Birna Bjarnadóttir will be this fall’s Beck Lecturer at the University of Victoria while serving as a visiting professor at the university during the fall semester. Birna is a research specialist in the Faculty of Languages and Cultures at the University of Iceland and was previously the chair of the Department of Icelandic Language and Literature at the University of Manitoba from 2003 to 2015...

Lögberg-Heimskringla is pleased to present the winners of this year’s Íslendingadagurinn Poetry and Short Story Contest. Each year, the Icelandic Festival of Manitoba invites submissions of previously unpublished poems and short stories in three age categories: Junior (12 and under), Intermediate (13–18), and Open (adults)...

On July 5th, I was privileged to be the first speaker/presenter at the initial Kvöldvaka (Evening Wake) held at Engimýri in Riverton, Manitoba. For those who don’t know much about the history of New Iceland – from Boundary Creek all the way north to Hecla Island (Mikley) – this includes the Icelandic settlement towns of Gimli, Hnausa, Arnes, Riverton, and Finns. This reserve was given by the government of Canada to the Icelandic settlers who arrived in 1875 and 1876. The small group and the large group...