In our fourth episode Iceland News talks to the very genial Bob Cluness – a Scotsman living in Iceland. He’s been there since 2007 after marrying an Icelander. We talk about life, the kreppa, a volcano and learn how to get started with the Icelandic music scene. Cluness works for prosthetic limb company Ossur by day. By night he’s also writing for the Reykjavik Grapevine and his new blog: The Reykjavik Sex Farm.

In our third episode, Iceland News talks to Guðrún Helga Sigurðardóttir.
She runs her own mountain climbing business from Reykjavik, Mountainclimbing.is. Guðrún Helga is also a freelance journalist who had an opportunity to fly into the ash cloud to report on the recent volcanic eruption.
Guðrún Helga maintains a blog: Travels in Iceland

 
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In the second episode of the Iceland News podcast we talk to the director of Iceland’s music history museum, Bjarki Sveinbjornsson.
We find out about what the museum does and means for the country as well as finding out about Sveinbjornsson’s many trips to North America to record Icelandic music history there.
 
 
 

In our first episode Iceland News talks to Carrie Simmons. She’s a Canadian of Icelandic descent and she’ll be returning to Iceland for the first time this summer to run in the Reykjavik marathon. We find out what it’s like to grow up in Canada with such a background and her trips to Gimli, Manitoba, as a youngster (home to the largest concentration of people of Icelandic ancestry outside Iceland).

In the second and final part of our interview with Jackson Crawford, Iceland News moves away from Star Wars to find out more about Crawford’s background. READ PART ONE HERE.
Saunders: How did you come to settle on Icelandic and Old Norse as an area of study?
Crawford: Well, I could tell that in a pretty long story, and I’m not sure how long of a story you want. I’ll try to keep it short. I was a dinosaur kid, interested especially in how dinosaurs evolved. When it came time to decide …

Jackson Crawford is a 24-year-old American studying Old Norse and Icelandic in Wisconsin. His post, Tattúínárdœla saga: If Star Wars Were an Icelandic Saga, has been making sounds right across the Internet. Jim Saunders caught up with Crawford in part one of a two part interview.

Saunders: Can you tell me a little bit more about how you came to write the post?
Crawford: It actually started with a really brief Facebook exchange with a colleague, Ben Frey. When I first joined Facebook 2 or so years ago, I wasn’t really …

-Sturla Sighvatsson (second from right) at REVA car signing agreement.
*** Read part one of this interview here.
IN: How is the program going right now? Do you already have charging posts out in the cities? How’s the roll-out going for that?
Sighvatsson: We will start the roll-out next year (2010). We are still in the design phase. First of all we set out and visited companies both in the US and the UK. They were building charging stations and offering them at point of sale to customers. But we quickly found …