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Inside this week:
Aliegiance to a new land.............................page 2
The 1990 farm and rural Circle Tour of lceland............4
An offer he couldn’t refuse...............................5
Board backs book..........................................7
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Lögberg
Heimskringla
The Icelandic Weekly
Lögberg Stofnað 14. janúar 1888 Heimskringla Stofnað 9. september 1886
102. Árgangur Föstudagur 27. april 1990 Númer 15
102nd Year Friday, 27 April 1990 Number 15
lcelandic
Coast Guard rescues pilot:
The coast guard’s helicopter recently
rescued the pilot of a twin-engine Cessna
404 Titan aircraft that had made a
forced landing 25 miles northwest of
Reykjavík.
The pilot was ferrying the plane from
the US to Europe, but after one engine
stopped, and running outof fuel, the pilot
had to ditch the aircraft. Four minutes
later, he was safe aboard the coast
guard’s helicopter and ín hospital after
iess than fifteen minutes.
According to Director of Civil Avíation
Pétur Einarsson, approximately 2.CD0
small aircraft stop over in lceland annu-
ally on their way between Europe and
North America. In recent years, an air-
craftfrom the Directorate of Civil Aviation
has on dozens of occasions had to come
to the assistance of pilots in trouble,
while quite a few have crashed at sea.
Courtesy of News From lceland
Equestrians meet:
Many guests are expected to ar-
rive in lceland in connection with the
country’s. equestrian event
(Landsmót) in Vindheimamelar
(Skagafjörður), at the beginning of
July this summer.
Many have booked fares with
Flugleíðir (The lcelandic Airlines) in
addition to at least one charter flight,
arriving in Akureyri from Switzerland
with approxímately 1BO visitors.
Erotic Árt:
Last month, Gallery Borg in
Reykjavík opened an exhibition of
erotic art by lcelandic artists. Ac-
cording to Úlfar pormóðsson, the
gallery’s curator, this is the first
exhibition of this sort ever held in
lceland. He felt confident that the
exhibition would serve both the spiri-
tual and sexual life of the nation.
^ The exhibition was well attended^
porrablót in Toronto
First day of
summer at Seikirk
The I.N.L. chapter “Brúin”, hosted a social
evening in Selkirk, April 19,1990, to mark the
first day of summer. Although a major cele-
bration in Iceland, it has almost been forgot-
ten by the Icelanders here. Brúin is the only
chapter that has kept this tradition alive year
after year and the President Jack Bjornson, is
already looking forward to a centennial cele-
bration three years from now.
The program featured a reading by Trica
McKay, “a Summer is a-coming”, screening
of Bill Valgardson’s film “Capital”, some
musical selections by Kerri Jefferson and
Trica McKay,and a greeting from the I.N.L.
President Neil Bard^l. The program wound
up with a rousing sing-a-long by Oli Narfason.
The refreshments prepared by the ladies
were superb and much visiting went on over
coffee as friends from Winnipeg, Gimli and
Selkirk met.
Well done Selkirk.
Submitted byS. Roed
On March 31st, about 210 members
and friends of the Icelandic Canadian
Club of Toronto came together to cele-
brate their Icelandic heritage with
porrafood, music and dance. Guests
came from Hamilton, Oakville, Co-
bourg, Orono, Guelph, Bracebridge,
London, Parry Sound and Orangeville,
and we were honoured to have Joan
Eyolfson Cadham and her husband,
Jack, come from St. Anne de Bellevue,
Quebec. Joan, who is a regular con-
tributor to the Lögberg-Heimskringla,
read an article she had written on
Spring, and a piece out of Independent
People by Halldór Laxness. The de-
scription by Laxness of Iceland during
a time of extreme poverty and scarcity
of food made us all appreciate even
more the feast we had just enjoyed.
Although we didn’t have singed
sheeps’ heads or decomposed shark
meat, organizers Steven Isleifson and
Bill Hurst had the buffet tables groan-
ing under the wight of hangikjöt,
rúllupylsa, skinka, kæfa, lax, síld,
mysuostur, lífrapylsa, flatbrauð, and
salads. After succumbing to the temp-
tation of overeating, we all joyfully
lined up for the wonderful desserts
for, after all, who can resist vínarterta,
pönnukökur, ástarbollur and kleinur!
Raffle prizes were drawn and our
oldest member, Sveina Dahl, 93, was
asked to pull the winner for the Ice-
landic sweater. By amazing chance,
Stella Kerff Hansen, the only member who
wore her lcelandic costume, standing with
Don Gislason, past president.
Joan Eyolfson Cadham reading.
Tom Einarson, president of The lcelandic Canadian Club of Toronto, standing by
microphone. Sveina Dahl presenting raffle prize to granddaughter, Wendy Moore.
David Scarth, vice-president, with wife
Sandra and members of his family.

she pulled a ticket bought by her
granddaughter, Wendy Moore, and
much laughter ensued about the draw
being fixed!
After the feast, John Erlendson’s
band Sphere kept everyone hopping,
including our youngest guest, 1-1/2
year old Elsa, daughter of Carol Klas-
sen and Stefan Fridriksson from
Orangeville.
porrablót has become a time for
families and friends to have a joyful
reunion and it is usually the only time
our out-of-town members are able to
partake of our Club’s activities. It was
a great success this year and we hope
everyone will come back in 1991.
Submitted by Maraya Yurko
Elsa Fridriksson, 1-1/2 years old.
(Isn’t she endearing?
She was stiil dancing at 10 p.m.)