These photos are two panoramas stitched together from a number of photos taken at Stykkishólmur. This is the port in Iceland where people are ferried across Breiðafjörður (Eng. Broadfjord) to the Vestfirðir (Eng. Westfjords). This was a day trip so we didn’t get a chance to take the ferry, but we had a wonderful meal at Narfeyrarstofa. If you are ever in the area, I highly… Read More »Stykkishólmur Panoramas
**Deadline extended until the end of October** The Association for the Advancement of Scandinavian Studies in Canada (AASSC), The University of Manitoba, and the Medieval & Modern Project invite titles and abstracts for a special themed section of Scandinavian-Canadian Studies, which will focus on the reception of Fóstbræðra saga. By discussing the saga itself alongside Halldór Laxness’ modern retelling, Gerpla, it will combine papers in… Read More »Call for Papers: Special Section for Scandinavian-Canadian Studies
La.cuna’s Flagship Piece: A Conversation with Ayahuasca An excerpt: “The two stroke engine howls as we push the aluminium contraption along the wide brown tumultuous flow of the Amazon River. We are going with the tide and everything about today is leading me towards the jungle, Ayahuasca and the unknown. I wonder if the dolphin is a sign of good things to come: a spray… Read More »A Conversation with Ayahuasca
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October 2014 I graduated from an MA programme at the University of Iceland in Icelandic Literature. I focused my efforts on medieval Icelandic literature. The result was my thesis on the influence of a particular part of Latin based education on vernacular writing in Iceland. Dialectica (En. dialectic, Ice. þrætubók) is a part of the foundation of the medieval European school, called the trivium (En.… Read More »MA Thesis
Paul Langeslag of the .septentrionalia. project was kind enough to thank me on the site home page for my contribution to the project. I provided some cleaned up and OCR’d versions of four of their files, mostly related to the Prose Edda. The files are fully searchable, though of course some OCR errors do still occur. The pdfs I produced are also easier to read… Read More ».septentrionalia. Recognizes My Contribution