Lögberg-Heimskringla - 19.07.1985, Blaðsíða 2

2-WINNIPEG, FÖSTUDAGUR 19. JÚLI 1985
Tales My Amma Told Me
By Indiana Sigurdson as told to
Thora (Jakobson) Delaguis.
SHIPWRECK
There was once a sea captain liv-
ing in Iceland. He was out on his boat
one evening on a fishing trip. These
trips sometimes lasted for many days
until a good catch was made and the
men slept on board the boat at night.
In that part of the ocean the waves
were calm and all the men were rest-
ing. The captain left the boat idling
and decided to go down to his bunk.
He could not sleep a wink, so for
some reason, he decided to turn on
the wireless radio.
As he rested, listening to the radio,
he heard a voice name a certain boat
with which he was familiar, and say
that the boat was in trouble. The
voice sounded urgent and said that
all the men aboard would die if help
were not sent. The voice told the ex-
act location of the ship, the name of
the ship, and the number of people
on board. It sounded urgent and
again repeated the call for help. This
News from Western Canada
Canadian Icelandic Horse Federation
Robyn Hood and Phil Pretty have
33 Icelandic horses on 80 acres just
west of Edmonton. Because the
winter has been pretty long and cold,
the horses have not had much work
since October and are enjoying a
rather long break.
Shortly after Christmas, Robyn
sold Jonaton to Dr. Hett and his
family in Edmonton. Jonaton is a
7-year-old grey gelding who was one
of the first Icelandics born on Robyn
and Phil's farm, which was then in
Guelph, Ontario.
Another horse, Torfi, a very pretty
dapple grey was born in Edmonton
5 years ago. He is being worked with
now and has a new owner also liv-
ing in Edmonton. Both horses live at
Robyn and Phil’s.
Two horses have gone to Harald
Dickenson in Logan, Iowa. One is
Pasca, a 15-year-old chestnut mare
and the other is Vafi, a chestnut
gelding who came from Iceland 3
years ago.
In the beginning of February Phil
and I took these horses to Winnipeg
and from there they went on to Iowa.
It was a long windy drive with blow-
ing snow all the way, but the horses
didn’t seem to mind too much, espec-
ially Vafi who would be used to this
in Iceland.
At the end of May, Ofeigur and
Frida leave on an even longer trip to
Healy, Alaska.
We are getting ready for a busy
summer. If the weather ever co-op-
erates we have 3 young horses to
start; Torfi, Fjosa and Reddi. There
will be made shows this summer,
starting with a stallion show in Alix
in April, then 2-gaited Horse Shows
including competitions for Icelandics
in June. Following is the Calgary
Stampede, Edmonton Klondike Days,
the World Championships for Icelan-
dic Horses in Sweden and then
Equitana at Spruce Meadows in Cal-
gary in September.
Klondike Days in Edmonton has in-
vited us to participate in the "Chal-
lenge of the Breeds" from July 23-27.
One horse from a minimum of 8
breeds, gets picked to perform in 6
different classes which are: 1. Barrel
racing; 2. Western Pleasure; 3. Eng-
lish pleasure; 4. Trail Class;
5. Hunter Class; 6. Roadster in Har-
ness. We will take Valur, my 15-year-
old white gelding who has been
shown quite a bit in the last few
years. We still have to work on a few
details with him, but expect him to
do pretty well and be a good repre-
sentative for the breed. It should be
lots of fun.
One of the original Icelandics,
Haeringur, better known as Oehme,
had to be put to sleep because he had
cancer of the intestines. Oehme was
one of the horses from the Great Am-
erican Horse Race. He was very dif-
ficult in Germany, but changed a lot
living in Canada. He was always the
unquestioned leader of the herd and
a real character. We used him in
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August 11-17 — Scandinavian Pavilion, St. James Civic Centre, 2055
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Sept. 14 — Icelandic Hecla Tour Weekend.
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some demonstrations and parades
and he could tölt forever without get-
ting tired. He was 21-years-old when
he had to be put dwn and he will be
missed not only by us but the horses
as well.
Robyn has been giving several
T.E.A.M. clinics in Alberta and at the
last one before we started everybody
was talking about the Icelandics. I
was surprised to hear people discuss-
ing the tölt, who have never even
seen an Icelandic horse. It was fun
to meet Matt Olafson, who has done
a lot of translating from Icelandic in-
to English for the Newsletter. At least
we were not the only ones walking
around in Icelandic horse shirts —
Matt had his on too.
Christine Schwartz
man was a very good captain and
well known for his fairness and kind-
ness. Immediately he decided to help
the ship which was in trouble.
Quickly he roused his men and
they started to sail to the location
mentioned by the voice. The captain
decided to call to Reykjavík to find
out more about this boat. The ships'
control office told the captain that
there was a boat in that general area
and the name was the one mention-
ed by the voice on the wireless radio.
However, no one had heard anything
about a call for help from this boat.
No one knew that there was any
trouble with this boat at all.
The captain was puzzled but con-
tinued to look for the ship. As their
boat approached the location given
by the voice, they soon saw the
stranded ship. It was helpless, the
engine had been destroyed and the
radio was damaged. All the men
were praying and called out to the
captain as they saw his ship coming
near.
The captain saved ten men by
following the directions given to him
on the radio. However, the ship's
radio had been damaged and they
had been unable to call anyone. The
ships' control office did not have any
idea that this bóat was in trouble and
as far as anyone knows, there was no
broadcast on the radio. It still re-
mains a mystery how the captain got
his message.
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