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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.

Iceland News is providing updates and coverage of Iceland’s new, and more serious, volcanic eruption from its Twitter account and Facebook fan page.
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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).

If you follow news out of Iceland and you’ve not heard of the volcanic eruption of the past few weeks then what rock have you been living under?
There’s not a minute goes by within a new tweet about it.
And they keep on flowing.
English language media in the country (The Reykjavik Grapevine, Iceland Weather Report and Iceland Review) have jumped on the volcano bandwagon to varying degrees. While most have provided great coverage (The Iceland Weather Report), I’d argue Reykjavik Grapevine has come out on top. Just watch out for Ice …

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 …