Lögberg-Heimskringla - 03.12.2004, Blaðsíða 1

LÖGBERG-HEIMSKRINGLA

Lögberg stofnað 14. janáar 1888
Heimskringla stofnaA 9. september 1886
SameinuA 20. ágást 1959

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Friday 3 December 2004 • Number 23 / Númer 23 • Föstudagur 3. despr
Publication Mail Agreement No. 40012014, PAP # 8000
118th year/ 118. Árgangur
ISSN 0047-4967
In This Issue
PHOTO: STEINÞÓR GUÐBJARTSSON
Destination:
Iceland
Come to the land of ice
and fire, and meet both
native Icelanders, and
adopted ones, like Canadian
ambassador Richard Tétu
/ starting on page 2
PHOTO: STEINÞÓR GUÐBJARTSSON
Making contacts
Almar Grímsson, Presi-
dent of the INLof Iceland,
talks about how relations
between Iceland and North
America can grow / pages 8,9
PHOTO: STEINÞÓR GUÐBJARTSSON
A life in Iceland
Of Icelandic descent
himself, Canadian Mark Wil-
son emigrated to Iceland in
the 1980s. Now he considers
himself more Icelandic than
Canadian / page 10
PHOTO: STEINÞÓR GUÐBJARTSSON
Jouraey to Hofsós
Christal Speer of Ten-
nessee was drawn to Iceland
by old family portraits, and
was a special guest at the
opening of “Silent Flashes”
/ page 12
INL Iceland brings about 150 -
200 new L-H subscribers a year
PHOTO: MORGUNBLAÐIÐ
Iceland in the spotlight
Recently the sixth season of the CBS reality show “The Amaz-
ing Race” kicked off with a two-hour premiere in which teams
of two contestants travelled from Chicago to Iceland for their
first set of challenges. The series was taped last summer and it
is estimated that 12.1 million people in the U.S. watched the
two-hour premiere, according to Pétur Óskarsson, Iceland’s
TVade Commissioner in New York and one of the two man-
in ‘The Amazing Race’
agers of Iceland Naturally. After arriving in Keflavík, the con-
testants drove to Seljalandsfoss waterfall and then to Vatna-
jökull, Europe’s largest glacier, where they spent the night in
tents. Towards the end, the teams were instructed to drive to
the Blue Lagoon, the most visited site in Iceland. From there
the Scandinavian tour continued in the next episode and again
Iceland was in the spotlight.
Steinþór Guðbjartsson
Reykjavík, Iceland
The Icelandic National
League of Iceland has decid-
ed that everyone who partici-
pates in the tours to North
America organized by the
INL will receive a subscrip-
tion to Lögberg-Heim-
skringla in the package.
Almar Grímsson, President
of the INL in Iceland, esti-
mates that about 150 to 200
people will take part in the
tours next year and they will
all be added to the list of sub-
scribers.
The INL in Iceland is
organizing three trips next
year. One will be to
Utah in conjunc-
tion with the cel-
ebrations there
in June com-
memorating
the 150th
anniversary of
the Icelandic
settlement of
Spanish Fork. In
the beginning of
July a tour has been
organized to North Dakota,
Manitoba, Saskatchewan and
Alberta. The annual historical
tour to Wisconsin, Minneso-
ta, North Dakota and Mani-
toba will be in the
end of July with
the celebrations
in Mountain
and Gimli in
mind.
A 1 m a r
Grímsson
says that the
INL wants to
prepare the par-
ticipants before
the trips as well as
possible. iíLögberg-Heim-
skringla keeps people in
touch with the ‘Icelandic’
settlements and the inhabi-
tants living there and there-
fore it is important for our
participants to get the paper
regularly,” he says.
Earlier this year, the Leif
Eiriksson Icelandic Club of
Calgary bought subscriptions
to Lögberg-Heimskringla for
all of its current paid-up mem-
bers. Norðurljós, the Icelandic
Society of Edmonton, soon
followed suit, and now the
INL of Iceland has decided to
take the same step. The deci-
sion of the three clubs means
about 500 new subscribers to
Lögberg-Heimskringla.
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