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Let’s go to lceland
By Stefania Morris
“Oh, you decided to go to
Iceland!” she said with excite-
ment.
“Yes, I thought we’d do the
circle tour. It would give us a
chance to see all of Iceland.”
he answered proudly.
“But I want to spend time in
the Haltastaðar district where
my mother was born. I have
heard that the relatives are still
all around there.” she told him.
“That’s interesting for you,
but I want to see all the histori-
cal places. It’s the land of the
Vikings where the great heroes
like Njáll walked, where
Ólafur Peacock brought the
slave or concubine who tumed
out to be all Irish princess, and
where the lovers Gunnlaugur
and Hrafn fought to their
death over the beautiful Helga
the Fair. I even want to see
Snorri Sturluson’s ancient hot
tub.” her husband said.
“You are a typical man!” his
wife snorted, “Always looking
for heroes of war and plunder
rather than great men like the
poets
“Iceland is full of poets. I
wonder how the people eeked
out a living when they spent
their time making verses.” he
huffed back.
The' poetry is what sus-
táined the people when life
was hard. They saw the beauty
in everything around them.”
“What about the long win-
ter when there was hardly any
day?” he asked, “They couldn’t
see much then.”
“That’s when the people
read all those books. Just think
how knowledgeable they were
about the great literature of the
world. They knew all the
works' of Shakespeare. Oh, do
you know that in Shake-
speare’s family crest there was
an Icelandic falcon. Maybe
there was some Icelandic in
Shakespeare. You know those
Vikings got around.” she said
laughing.
“You and your imagination.
Just because it was a falcon on
that crest doesn’t say that it
was an Icelandic one. Next
you’ll be telling me we are
descended from royalty.” he
said shaking his head.
“Oh, we are! The people
who settled Iceland were rela-
tives of the king of Norway so
we are all of royal blood.” she
answered as she held her head
up high.
“Ha! Ha! I think the
Vikings will have mixed the
royal blood up a bit. We are
more likely to be descendants
of pirates. Anyway I’m going
on the circle tour and I will see
all the country.”
“But I want to meet the
people and feel what it is like
to live in Iceland. I want to
know what they think and
dream about,” his wife went
on.
“You meet people on the
circle tour. You get to be like
one happy family for two
weeks.” he tried to tell her.
“This is different because
when you go to Iceland you go
to meet Icelandic people, not a
bunch of Europeans or other
tourists.” she snapped back.
“What do you think you
will see. There are no turf
houses any more,” he asked.
“I know that their house
will be gone, but I’ll be able to
see the stream that flowed by
the house and the lake where
grandma threw out her net and
caught those wonderful trout
that nothing in Canada
equalled.” she added.
“I wouldn’t mind tasting
that trout. Oh, here comes the
nurse.”
“She’ll want to get us ready
for bed now,” she answered.
“We’ll have to continue our
trip to Iceland another day, but
I still want to do the circle
tour,” he assured her.
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