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Minneota celebrates
Icelanders Marking 150 years of settlement

Gunnlaugur Petursson settled onto his land in Westerheim Township, Lyon County, Minnesota, on July 4, 1875, marking the start of the Minneota Icelandic Settlement. He wasn’t the only Icelander to arrive at that time, just the first Icelander (and his family) to homestead...

The Njáls Saga Tapestry
Another stop on its journey

In the town of Hvolsvöllur, South Iceland, a community of just under 1,000 people live in this area that is connected to the country’s most famous saga. Surrounded by outstanding landscapes, they wake up each day to amazing views and to a history never forgotten by them. Or for that matter, by any Icelander. But the project to hand-embroider a 90-metre-long tapestry depicting Iceland’s most famous saga – the Saga of the Burning of Njál – was conceived in this small village...

The Golden Jubilee
A year of two celebrations

There were effectively two Icelandic celebrations in Manitoba a century ago. What we know today as the Icelandic Festival of Manitoba, which was still held in Winnipeg at the time, went ahead as usual in River Park on August 3, 1925, drawing some 2,000 participants. (You can read a contemporaneous account of the event in the previous issue of Lögberg-Heimskringla.)...

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