Lögberg-Heimskringla - 19.10.1990, Blaðsíða 1

Inside this week:
lcelandic Coats of Arms by Nelson Gerrard................... page 2
lcelandic Content...............................................3
Centennial Celebration..........................................5
News from lcelandic Canadian Clubs..............................7
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102. Árgangur Föstudagur 19. október 1990 Númer 36
102nd Year Friday, 19 0ctober 1990 Number 36
lcelandic
News
18 eaglets reared:
Eighteen eaglets were reared
successfully in a total of ten nests
last summer, according to the
lcelandic Society for the Protec-
tion of Birds.
Eggs did not hatch or young
failed to survive in another twenty
nests that have been found. Ea-
gles are exceptionally sensitive
during breeding season, and the
loss of eggs and young in the nests
may well be the result of the adult
birds being unduly alarmed or
disturbed. No eagle’s nest should
thus be approáched until the young
are weit grown.
Viking summit:
Vikings gather togive the bishop
an audience in a scene from The
White Viking, a collaborative Nor-
dic film directed by Hrafn
Gunnlaugsson, which is set in the
period when all the Nordic coun-
tries were converted from pagan-
ism to Christianity in the 9th and
10th centuries. Working on a budget
of USD5.5 million, Gunnlaugsson
has begun shooting at various lo-
cations on the southwest corner of
lceland, while three-quarters of the
film is to be made in Norway and
Sweden.
56% of university
students female:
Female students outnumber
their male counterparts in a number
of faculties at the University of
lceland, and make up just under
56% of all students at present.
Roughly 530 female students are
registered in the social sciences
faculty, against218 males, with the
corresponding figures for the hu-
manities department 613 women
against 291 men.
The institution’s engineering
facuity is still dominated by male
students, however, who number
240, compared to only 32 female
students.
<j5ourtesy of News From Icelandj
Skál to Leifur Eiríksson
Knud and Inge Markman receive award
On October 13, the Scandinavian
Centre in Winnipeg put on a banquet
in honour of Leifur Eiríksson. The
ceremony began with a procession,
led by flag bearers carrying the five
Scandinavian flags and honoured
guests entering the hall. The
Scandinavian Choir entertained,
followed by the accomplished alto
Martha Craig, who was accompanied
on piano by Helga Anderson.
The Leifur Eiríksson banquet is
an annual event held in honour of
LeifurEiríksson’s discovery ofNorth
America — long before Christopher
Columbus ever set sail across the
Atlantic. In Leifur’s honour a
longstanding member of the Danish
Club, Mr. Chris Schubert, proposed
and led all in a Viking Skál to Leifur.
Representatives of the federal and
City of Winnipeg
brought greetings
and read proclama-
tions that desig-
nated the 9th of
October, 1990, as
Leifur Eiríksson
Day.
The president ofthe
Scandinavian Cen-
tre, Mr. Magnus
Eliason, spoke
briefly, sayingthat
he felt it needed to
be clarified that to
the best of his
knowledge Leifur Eiríksson had al-
ways identified himself as an Ice-
lander. Magnus’ comments brought
forth a loud applause from the Ice-
landers in the crowd.
During the course of the evening
an honourary award was bestowed
upon Knud and Inge Markman of the
Danish Club. The award will from
now on be known as the Markman
award to be given annually to out-
standing volunteers who have un-
selfishly given hours of their time to
the Scandinavian Centre.
Above: The Scandinavian Choir. Top Right: Helga Anderson and Martha Craig.
Below: Head table
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to its subscribersfor the late delivery
of the last two issues. The problems
that caused the delay were explained
in recent issues — the departure of
Martin Olafson and Harry Smith who
co-ordinated the mailing so efficiently
in the past and the coincidental col-
lapse of the Addressograph machine
that was used to label the papers.
The mailing of the paper is a com-
plicated business. There are many
rules and regulations that have to be
met under a second-class mailing li-
cence for a newspaper such as Lögberg-
Heimskringla. This is compounded
by 'the far-flung circulation of the
newspaper. Lögberg-Heimskringlagoes
to all provinces in Canada, many
states in the U.S., Iceland, Africa
and Asia. Not many wéekly newspa-
pers can claim that wide a geographic
spread anditiscomethingthatmakes
us proud. We will be prouder still
when we have this problem fixed and
you start getting your paper at the
usual time.
The board of directors has been
working full-time under the direc-
tion of President Robert Valdimar
Öleson and Vice-President Gordon
Olafson to develop a new system for
mailing that the paper can afford
and which will work efficiently to
service subscribers in the long term.
At press time, there appeared to be
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