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 …

There’s an Icelandic version of Google Maps available which is so much better.
It’s part of ja.is and is at http://en.ja.is/kort/.

Great for planning those long Icelandic road trips around route one.
Don’t speak the language? Don’t worry. There’s an English language version.
As it pops up from time to time, here’s further information on the physical Icelandic phonebook.

We received a comment from Ice News in response to one of our posts about volcano coverage. We thought it’d be good to hoist it up for all to see. Thanks for taking the time to respond Alex. Appreciated.

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