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 …

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Icelandic Saga Database
Sagas of the Icelanders
“The Icelandic Saga Database is an online resource dedicated to the digital publication of the Sagas of the Icelanders — a large body of medieval literature which forms the foundation of the Icelandic literary tradition. The sagas are prose histories describing events that took place amongst the Norse and Celtic inhabitants of Iceland during the period of the Icelandic Commonwealth in the 10th and …

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

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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 …

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Iceland News spoke to Kara Schuster, co-chair for the 2010 INL convention in Toronto, who gave us her side of what’s to come.
Saunders: How did you get involved with the Icelandic community in Canada?
Schuster: My uncle once sent me the link to the Toronto newsletter and we didn’t really know anything was going on here. And then they had the Snorri program… it’s an exchange program where you go to Iceland for six weeks and meet quite a bit of your …