Lögberg-Heimskringla - 09.05.2003, Blaðsíða 5

Lögberg-Heimskringla • Föstudagur, 9 Maí 2003 • page 5
FRÉTTIR • NEWS
The Icelandic Association of Utah Donates
to History Center in Spanish Fork
PHOTO COURTESY OF DAVID ALLAN ASHBY
Richard Johnson (right) presenting photograph to Tom
Richardson (left)
David Allan
Asliby
Spanish Fork,
Utah
The Icelandic Association
of Utah donated a framed
photograph of the some of the
Icelandic Emigrants to Utah to
the Family History Center in
Spanish Fork, Utah. Icelandic
Association president Richard
Johnson presented the photo-
graph to Tom Richardson,
director of the Family History
Center. The collection of pho-
tos is part of the exhibit “The
Road to Zion ” at the Icelandic
Emigration Centre in Hofsós,
Iceland.
The exhibit has a display
of artifacts telling the story of
the early Icelandic emigrants
that joined the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints and
emigrated to Utah.
The exhibit tells of the
travels of the Icelanders to
Utah where they settled among
the Mormons. It reveals that
between 1854 and 1914 more
than 400 Icelanders moved to
Utah. It is a story of the first
Icelandic emigrants who jour-
neyed over sea and land. It is a
story of their life and of their
life and of their descendants to
the present.
Various information and
artifacts came from Utah
among which is a replica of
Bertel Thorvaldsen’s Christus.
Smaller replicas are found in
many Mormon homes. Also at
the exhibit, there is a golden
statue of the Angel Moroni
who appeared to Joseph Smith
and is a symbol of the Church
of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints. In Fraendgardur beside
the exhibition is a genealogy
center, library and an apart-
ment for scholars.
The exhibit “The Road to
Zion ” was opened at Hofsós on
July 3rd, 2000 by President
Olafur Ragnar Grímsson.
Sixty members of the Icelandic
Association of Utah were pres-
ent at the opening of this
exhibit.
Hlaut viðurkennningu Náttúrulækningafélagsins
Received a Recognition from the Naturopathic
Association
The herbalist, Ásta
Erlingsdóttir, received a
recognition for many years
of working with herbs
The herbalist, Ásta
Erlingsdóttir, received
recognition from the
Naturopathic Association in
Reykjavík for the year 2003.
Ásta received the recognition
for her wofk as a herbalist for
many decades.
Ásta Erlingsdóttir has used
Icelandic herbs to enhance
peoples health and many have
received a cure for their ill-
nesses through help from her.
Among her herbal cures are
healing balms that cure
swelling and herbal drinks.
Ásta Erlingsdóttir was
born July 12, 1920 at
Haukaland in Reykjavík, in the
Wetlands. She studied under
her father, Erlingur Filippsson,
and he studied with his mother.
This knowledge has been in the
family for centuries and she
has taught her children the
craft.
For years, Ásta has painted
with watercolors she has creat-
ed from lcelandic herbs. She
held an exhibition of her art in
1987 at the occasion of the
publishing of the book Ásta,
the herhalist.
PHOTO COURTESY OF SHERRY CROWTHER
Four students at .the Lester B. Pearson College of the
Pacific near Victoria BC adrnire the set of the Complete
Sagas of the Icelanders that was presented to the college
last March lst by Heather Alda Ireland, Honourary Consul
General for Iceland in British Columbia. From left to right,
the students are Mersiha from Kosovo, Udochukwu from
Nigeria, Melina from Serbia and Kamila from Philippines.
Pearson College, attended by a select group of 200 teenage
students from all over the world, is one of ten United
World Colleges dedicated to promoting international
understanding through education. The beautifully bound
five-volume set of forty sagas and forty nine shorter tales
was the first complete English translation of the sagas, the
product of some thirty translators from seven countries.
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