Gudmundur Gudjonsson lay an agonising ten meters from the woman he wanted to rescue. He could go no further. In front of him was an impenetrable web of collapsed concrete and twisted metal.

Both of them were inside one of Port-Au-Princes’ largest supermarkets, the Caribbean Market. The once four storey building, in the wake of a 7.0 magnitude earthquake,  had flattened like a pancake to no more than three metres high. The woman’s voice, as if from behind a door, made its muffled movement towards Gudjonsson’s ears.

“Please don’t go, please don’t go,” it pleaded. “Stay with me and talk to me.”

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 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 …

Iceland News talked to Sturla Sighvatsson of Northern Lights Energy to find out more about electric cars in Iceland and their 2012 initiative.

- On the streets of Iceland next year? CREDIT

2012 – New Beginning, announces the arrival of the electric car. Our goal is to implement a system in Iceland, which will enable the Icelandic public to convert their whole fleet, in to electric cars.

IN: How did you come to start the 2012 initiative separate Icelandic New Energy?
Sighvatsson: One and half years ago we decided that it was time …

Iceland News spoke to residents of Icelandic descent living in London, Ontario, Canada. This is part one of a multi-part series telling their stories.

INEWS: I’m listening to Icelandic folk music… it’s a song called Draumalandith… in English… that’s dreamland… and it’s the favorite song for one London resident of Icelandic-descent. Here I am in her suburban home… listening to Draumalandith… listening to her story of maintaining her heritage.

Ardath: My name is Ardath Valdise-Finnbogason-Hill, which is a mouthful and always has been for people who have met me for …