Lögberg-Heimskringla - 22.06.2001, Síða 1

Week at a glance
The pros and cons of knitting
Guys! What are you waiting for?
Knitting’s not just for Amma any more
Fighting water erosion
Entrepreneur Mark Myrowich fulfills
dream of running his own company
Friday 22 June 2001 • Number 22 / Föstudagur 22 June 2001 • Númer 22
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Registration no. 08000 Agreement no. 1402161 115th year /115. Árgangur ISSN 0047-4967
Fréttir • News
Ungfrú ísland 2001
Miss Iceland2001
Photo: Morgunblaðið/Halldór Kolbeins
Ragnheiður Guðfinna Guðnadóttir.
Ragnheiður Guðfinna
Guðnadóttir was chosen Miss
Iceland for the year 2001. The beau-
ty pageant took place at Broadway.
Ragnheiður, who is 21 years old, is
from Vestmanneyjar. fris Björk
Ámadóttir is the runner-up and in
third place is íris Dögg Oddsdóttir.
Translated fivm Morgunblaðið by Á. H.
Kristín Rós valin
andlit No Name
Kristín Rós chosen
No Nameface
HE QUEEN OF SWIMMING,
Kristín Rós Hákonardóttir,
has been chosen to be the face
for No Name brand cosmetics for
the year 2001. Kristín has won many
gold medals for swimming and was
noticed for her performance at the
Olympic games for the handicapped
in Sydney last year. She was chosen
as the athlete of the year 2000 for
Reykjavík. Every year a woman is
chosen to be the face for No Name
and among those who have been
chosen in the last few years are
actress Kólbrún Björgólfsdóttir,
vocalist Selma Björnsdóttir, and
actress Ólifía Hrönn Jónsdóttir.
Translated fivm Morgunblaðið by Á. H.
Don Brandt
Horse and rider on Icelandic
stamps are an interesting theme
for a collector, augmented by
stamps which illustrate riderless horses
such as five issued 17 May 2000.
It is often conjectured that
Icelanders would never have main-
tained a foothold on their inhospitable
island, let alone survived, without the
horse: the only form of land transport
for over a millennium—bearing riders
for countless reasons including battle;
transporting turf, stone, driftwood and
other building materials; bringing in the
hay from distant fields; hauling coffins
to the churchyard for burial; and what-
ever else it was asked to do. Always
willingly and eaming the Icelanders’
appellation of most faithful servant.
After a millennium of hard work, it has
Lillian Vilborg
WlNNIPEG, MB
Continued from the last issue.
Fríður Ólafsdóttir, who is an
Associate Professor at the
Kennaraháskóli (University of
Education) in Reykjavík, has pub-
lished two books on Icelandic cos-
tume—one on the upphlutur: íslen-
skur Búningur: Upphlutur á 20 öld
(1994), the costume most commonly
wom, and the one we see most often in
North America; and the other on
men’s wear: íslenskir
Karlmannabúningar 1740 - 1850
(1999), for which she received an
award, from the Bókasafnsjóður
höfunda 2000, worth ISK 275,000.
She hand-bound 1,000 copies of her
last book. Born and raised in
ísafjörður, she attended Kvennaskóli
and Menntaskólinn in Reykjavík, and
settled into virtual retirement, except
for pleasure riding, equestrian shows
and, in some areas, the annual roundup
of sheep in September.
The new stamps show five gaits and
five of the more common color varieties
of which approximately one hundred
are recorded among Icelandic horses.
If you add these five fine-looking
stamps, to your thematic collection,
what should you have altogether? As a
pack animal the Icelandic horse appears
on stamps issued in 1949, 1973, 1982
and 1997, three of which illustrate
hestapóstur, a postman and pack of
horses carrying mail chests across
country. This custom survived in some
isolated areas until shortly after the
Second World War. Also in this catego-
ry is a lovely 1986 souvenir sheet
showing some seventeen horses which
Please see lcelandic horse on page 5
attended university in West Berlin,
where she studied design. She is cur-
rently doing a masters degree in
design at DuMontfort University in
Leicester, England. Her project is a
multimedia CD, with video and text,
in English, on Icelandic wool and
design. She worked as a freelance
designer and spent a period in the
1980s, after she returned to Iceland,
working on costumes in the film busi-
ness before she ended up teaching and
researching fashion and dress in
Iceland.
Kristrún Þórðardóttir was Fríður’s
guiding light. Although she died in
1982, twelve years before Fríður
received her pattems, she was one of
Iceland’s experts in costume making.
Trained in sewing methods by Danish
tailors who came to Iceland in the
early 1900s, she spent a couple of
years sewing for them. She then spent
Please see National Dress on page 6
1) Fet on the 40 kr. stamp is the walk
and the horse’s color is rauðjarpur.
BROKK MwtiJbWf.
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2) Brokk on the 55 kr. is the trot and the
horse’s color is rauðskjóttur.
3) Skeið on the 60 kr. is the pace, a gait
for short distances only. The colour is
bleikmoldóttur.

4) Stökk on the 80 kr. is the canter. The
color is apalgrár.
5) The hard one is saved for last! Tölt on
the 50 kr. is the running walk, used over
even terrain. The colour is móvindóttur.
Demystifying the
Icelandic National Dress
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