Lögberg-Heimskringla - 17.03.1995, Side 1

Lögberg-Heimskringla - 17.03.1995, Side 1
í Lðgberg 1 neimsKrmgia The lcelandic Weeldy Lögberg Stofnaö 14. janúar 1888 Heimskringla Stofnaö 9. september 1886 Inside this week: lceland, Manitoba's Interlake and New lceland are highlighted in this special travel issue of Lögberg-Heimskringla. 109. Árgangur 109th Year jstudagur 17. mars 1995 Friday, 17 March 1995 Númer 10 Number 10 Publications Mail Registration No. 1667 Women in lcelandic dress look down on the plains of Þingvellir on the 50th anniversary of independence. Mseov@riníf ISnw PHOTO COURTESYEIMSKIP By Tom Oleson Under the bright and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me lie, Glad did I live and gladly die And I lay me down with a will. Let this be the grave you carve for me: Here he lies where he longed to be. Home is the sailor, home from the sea And the hunter home from the hill. — Robert Louis Stevenson as they did in the Viking raids on the British Isles and Europe, but they also travelled for adventure, for knowledge and for their honour and their souls. The death of Grettir the Strong was avenged by his brother half-way across the world, in Constantinople, giving him the distinction of being the Icelander avenged furthest from home, and the sagas record several examples of Icelanders making the pilgrimage to Rome to ease the burden on their souls, a burden which, in some cases, was considerable. And we should not forget the great- est travellers of all, the Icelanders who sailed West to discover and settle Greenland and North America. Greenland became a thriving settlement that lasted for several hundred years before the people mysteriously vanished in what Vilhjálmur Stefanson called one of the great unsolved mysteries of the Arctic. Attempts to settle North America appear to have been unsuc- cessful. I say “appear” because we do not know for certain what exactly hap- pened in those centuries. The Vínland settlements we know from the sagas ultimately failed, but there was a vast Arctic, a whole continent, beckoning to the Greenlanders, and Norse ruins have been found in Ungava and may have been found elsewhere in the Canadian Arctic. Cont’d p. 3 here Robert Louis Stevenson “longed to be” was in Samoa, where he had gone in the hopes of curing his tuberculosis and where he died in 1894 at the age of 44. Stevenson was a Scot, a fíne writer and a much-travelled man. Scots in gen- eral are a much-travelled people having spread out all overthe world in the 19th centuiy and this one, but they are noto- rious for feeling a longing for “home”. Nevertheless, Stevenson’s grave is in Samoa, where it has become a shrine for lovers of his novels and poems and a tourist attraction. Icelanders, too, are great travellers and their peregrinations have a long and colourful history. They also experi- ence that longing for home. At one time they were not the most welcome of tourists, with the young men joining up CONTEST FRENZY Who, what, where, when and why. Those are the basic questions that, accor- ding to tradition, journalism is supposed to ask and answer. We here at Lögberg-Heimskringla would like to give you a chance to answer them in a new contest for readers. The who, of course, is who are you? The what is what are you reading (Lögberg-Heimskringla, of course)? The where is where are you reading it? The when is when do you read it (every week, we hope)? And the why is why do you read it, a question to which we anticipate some interesting answers. To make it a little more clear, what we propose is this. You have a picture taken of yourself reading the newspaper. You send it to us telling us who you are and where you are in this picture. It can be a place you would normally read the paper, or you can pick somewhere unusual. The why is optional, but we enjoy hearing those com- ments, too. We will publish the pic- ture and your stoiy — it can be short or long — in the paper and in our special Travel Issue next March we will pick a winner, who will receive a free subscription to Lögberg-Heimskríngla. We think that this will be fun and useful too, allowing readers to know who else is out there, where they are and what they are doing. It will also help us in putting out the paper, as your com- ments always do. So use your imagination, have some fun and get in touch. Let everybody know where says 4-year-oid Katie you are and what you’re reading. Send your entriés to L-H/W-5, care of Lögberg-Heimskríngla. Cont’d p. 24

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