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LLö_gbergJ
neimsKringia
The lcelandic Weekly
Lögberg Stofnaö 14. janúar 1888 Heimskringla Stofnaö 9. september 1886
The History of Hallson Church.................3
Grímkell's Story, fifth installment........4, 5
From Halli's Kitchen......................... 6
Upcoming events...............................7
Children's Corner................'............7
108. Árgangur Föstudagur 28. október 1994
108th Year Publications Mail Registration No. 1667 Friday, 28 October 1994
Númer 37
Number 37
lcelandic
The Last Cruise Ship:
■ The last Cruise ship of the sea-
son stopped in Reykjavík harbour
in late September. Seaborn Pride
was the 39th cruise ship this sum-
mer which is the same number of
ships as in I993. In 1992 there were
26 ships. One day aboard Seaborn
Pride costs $700-800. There were
119 Americans aboard during this
voyage.
Iceland Moss:
■ A sure sign of spring in
Hornafjörður, lceland is the
arrival of the arctic tern around
the middle of May. This is also a
signal to Heimir Gíslason and his
wife Sigríður Helgadóttir to get
their gear ready for camping on
the heaths of Jökuldalur and at
Melrakkasiétta through the bright
summer nights, picking 'lceland
Moss'. Then a sure sign of fall is
their return, along with over-
loaded wagons of fresh 'lceland
Moss'. This summer with their
family they picked 3 tonnes of
this delicacy. A lot of work fol-
lows — cleaning and getting the
product to market both at home
and abroad. Heimir says that
people are often surprised with
the variety of ways this food can
t>e used. For example, it is very
9ood to add a handful of 'lceland
l^loss' to your cocoa or choco-
late. Those who have been lucky
enough to pick up some 'lceland
Moss'- in lceland can try this by
boiling a handful of 'lceland
l^loss' in some water and then
adding chocolate or cocoa and
some syrup.
GUNNUR ISFELO
J
ICELANDIC STATE PARK:
Historíc Church Resurrected
Freparation worlt has begun at
soon-to-be site of the
Hallson Church, at Icelandic
State Park in North Dakota.
The ground has been excavated for
a partial basement and work has
started on the foundation. When this
preliminary work is completed, the
church will be moved to its new loca-
tion near the Interpretive Centre at
the state park.
The farewell service for the
Hallson church was held Sunday,
Oct. 9 at 2 p.m. in anticipation of the
building’s removal from its original
location.
For the past several years, plans
have been afoot and money has been
raised to move the church to the park
where it would join the other buildings
at the Pioneer Heritage Centre.
The farewell service was a service of
Holy Communion with Pastor Bradley
Edin preaching. Following worship,
coffee and dessert were served in the
hall next to the church.
The Hallson church was built in
1897, eleven years after the organiza-
tion of the congregation. Hallson was
part of the old Mountain Lutheran
Parish for most of the past century.
When the Mountain Parish was reor-
ganized as Pembina Hills Evangelical
Lutheran Church in 1984, the congre-
gation dissolved and most of its mem-
bers joined Pembina Hills. Worship
services have been held at the church
on a regularly scheduled basis up to
the present time.
Curling in lceland?
by Dr. Tom & Sophie Wallace
Seattle
hy not? This
was asked in
February ‘91 by
two ex-Mani-
tobans. No sooner did they.
ask the question, than they
were asked to pursue that
very project under the title,
“Curling Ambassadors” to
Iceland for thé World
Curling Federation.
That year the world’s
curling play downs were to
be held in Winnipeg. The
spark was lit! We said,
“We’ll try.”
Rapid communications
assured us we could stay
with relatives. In late
February we were on our
way to set up hasty meet-
ings, show videos, demon-
strate on artificial outside
ice with two rocks which we
had carried with us.
The Icelanders were
impressed and agreed to
join the World Curling
Federation. They were guar-
anteed a three-year loan of
rocks, etc. with instruction
to follow when all was
ready.
The head of the Sports
Federation of Iceland was
Siguröur Magnússon. He
had been very impressed.
The president in Austria
invited him to Winnipeg for
the World’s. There, he
brought the great news that
Iceland would join. Cheers
arose! Now there were 25
countries in the Federation
and curling was eligible for
the Olympics!!! The ultimate
goal was reached!
Sadly, six months later
Mr. Magnússon had a major
heart attack with surgery in
London. We are certain this
caused a severe slow-down
in this program.
Three years have gone by
without any progress.
Finally, we have been told
the building will be up in
1995. Now we are anxious
to pay for the rocks that
have been sitting in
Reykjavílc all this time. New
rocks cost approximately
$700 a pair. There are 32
rocks there.
The curling committee in
Iceland designed a curling
pin, which we had made in
Regina. We have 700. We
decided at our July meeting
in Winnipeg to charge $5
apiece. These pins were first
seen in Gimli at íslend-
ingadagurinn. They are in
Dr. Jonas Johnson’s care
until they will be sold in
Brandon at the 1995
World’s. This splendid plan
came from Stan Oleson in
Glenboro.
Another fund raising
scheme was considered.
Some people might like to
have their name engraved
on a rock handle for $50
Cont’d p. 2