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Lögbergl
eimskrmgia
The lcelandic Weekly
Lögberg Stofnnö 14. janúar 1888
Heimskringla Stofnaö 9. september 1886
Inside this week:
Power from lceland............................2
Food traditions thrive........................3
Out of the Glacier............................5
A chance to help out.........................14
Magnus Eliason...............................15
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106. Árgangur
106th Year
Publications Mail Registration No. 1667
Föstudagur 30. október 1992
Friday, 30 Oc tober 1992
Númer 38
Number 38
lcelandic
News
Another
queen!
■ Here we go
again, another
lcelandic beauty
queen has won
yet another inter-
national beauty
contest.
This time it
was 19-year-old
Pórunn Lárusdóttír, from Reykjavík, who
was chasen Miss Scandínavia and the
best model, at the competition in Vasa,
Finland, this September.
Lárusdóttir, who came in third ín the
Míss lceland contest, said her winning
was that much sweeter because it came
as a complete surprise to her,
Lárusdóttir worked as a model this
last summer ín Milano, Italy. She is now
apparently in the process of deciding
wliether to go into the fíeld of medidne
oracting. Hermother, Sigriður Þorvalds-
dóttir, is an actress, and also a former
Míss lcelandl It seems líke this might be
the family trade.
Courtesy ofNews From lceland
lcelandair - Reduced
fares on North Atlantic
routes:
■ ln response to specíal offers by over-
seas carriers lcelandair now plans to lower
itsfares.
SAS, Swíssair and KLM began the cur-
rent round of price cuts by offering dis-
counts on flíghts to the U.S.
The manoeuvre prompted a volley of
cuts as high as 30% on advance-sale tick-
ets at U.S. carriers Delta, Continental,
TWA and American. This move will press
the companíes’ performance even more
as passenger numbers contínue to
dedine in the wake of the U.S. recessíon.
According to daily MQrgunblaðið,
lcelandair North America regional direc-
tor Sigfús Erlingsson said his company
would offer customers a travel package
similar to that of Delta. He said that regu-
lar fares would not decrease, and that the
reduced fares on North Atlantic routes
were specíal offers.
"There are stricter mles for these fares,
a tighter limit on seat numbers and pre-
determined closing day for ticket sales ...
listed fare príces do not change per se,"
Erlingsson said.
Reports by Reuters indicate that Delta
will cut fares on advance-purchase tickets
this autumn and winter by up to 30% with
the lowest fare U.S. $448 on routes from
New York to Berlin, Amsterdam,
Frankfurt, Paris, and other European
cities.
Courtesy of News From lceland
Why we reach oui
This is the third annual edition
of Outreach, a special issue of
Lögberg-Heimskringla pro-
duced in co-operation with the
Icelandic National League. As well
as some of the news and features that
you regularly get in Lögberg-
Heimskringla, it contains a number
of reports and messages from the
various chapters and members of the
INL about what sort of activities and
projects they have been SSSSSS
involved in during the pre-
ceding year.
The purpose of Outreach is
two-fold. It is hoped that by
producing this expanded ver-
sion of the paper once each
expense.
The reward for all this — or at
least the hoped for reward — is that
if the INL gets a few more members
out of it, and Lögberg-Heimskringla
gets a few more subscribers, then
both organizations have a little extra
strength to pursue their objectives.
And that is what it is really all
about and also why it should directly
concem you, because both organiza-
or the Icelandic Natíonal League are
not aJI you would like them to be right
year and sending it to both nOWf thmk ábout howmuch bettGT recent, is the Department of
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they could be once you
have just stepped off the plane and
are still settling in. Many
of you will fall somewhere
in between.
All of us, however, have
one common interest —
holding on to and main-
taining the culture, the heritage and
the language, if we can, that is so
precious to us and which is the only
thing that enables us to maintain an
mmmmmm identity in the vast and het-
erogenous society that is
North America.
That identity, that culture,
that heritage, that language,
rest on three fundamental pil-
lars. The first, and the most
the membership of the INL
and the subscribers of L-H,
the league will be able to
enlist more members from
the ranks of Lögberg-
Heimskringla, and the paper
will be able to recruit more
subscribers from the ranks of
the Icelandic National
League.
Consequently, at the end
of each message from the
member of associate organi-
zations of the INL published
in this issue, you will find
information on how to join a
chapter in your area.
Elsewhere in the paper, you
will find the inevitable and
ubiquitous subscription form
for Lögberg-Heimskringla,
which we thoughtfully pub-
lish each week so that you
will have the opportunity to
begin subscribing, renew
your subscription, and, if you
are so inclined, to make a
small — or large — donation,
to help ensure the survival of the
paper.
There is a lot of work that goes
into this edition of the paper, work
done by the various representatives
of the INL groups who prepare the
reports and by the staff and board of
directors of L-H.
Because the issue is — this year —
twice the size of a normal issue,
there are more stories that have to be
prepared, more copy to be edited,
more work to be processed by the
magic fingers of Barbara Gislason
through the computers of Keystone
Graphics, and of course, more
Reykjavlk: Where it all began.
tions have no other purpose than to
attempt to' maintain and enhance the
Icelandic culture and heritage among
people of Icelandic descent in North
America. So far Western Icelanders
have done a pretty good job of that
— better, indeed, than we were sup-
posed to do when the first Icelanders
came here more than 100 years ago.
Some of you reading this — at least
those of you who have been able to
plough through it this far (please per-
severe; there’s a pitch coming up) —
may be fourth or fifth generation
Canadians or Americans. Others
may be immigrants from Iceland who
Icelandic at the University of
Manitoba, a jewel created
solely through the efforts and
financial support of Westem
Icelanders and Icelanders
themselves. The second is
the Icelandic National
League, which, for almost
three-quarters of a century
has represented our interests
in both North America and
Iceland. The third I would
argue — and there .will be
some who may want to dis-
pute this; if so, let us hear
from you — is Lögberg-
Heimskringla. L-H is the
oldest so-called ethnic news-
paper published in Canada;
probably one of the oldest in
all of North America. Over
the years it has flourished
and it has occasionally fal-
tered. Often that depends on
the editor and the staff.
Always, however, it depends
on you, and the same is true
for the Department of
Icelandic and the Icelandic National
League, and the myriad other organi-
zations — too numerous to mention
— that struggle constantly to keep
our culture alive. So as you browse
through this issue, as I hope you will,
keep this thought in mind: these are
organizations worthy of your sup-
port, because if they go there will be
little left to hold onto.
And remember this, too: If
Lögberg-Heimskringla or the
Icelandic National League are not all
you would like them to be right now,
think about how much better they
could be once you get involved.