God of Wednesday

Along the west coast of Iceland, beneath the great glacier Snaefellsjokull, is a magical riding trail uncovered only at low tide. This r...

The Knight is the last piece I place on the imaginary chessboard in Ivory Vikings , my biography of the Lewis chessmen--though it could ha...

When some people go to Iceland for the first time, they want to see it all. In seven days they drive the entire Ring Road, bagging all the...

Earlier this week the president of Iceland, Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, traveled to Cornell University in Ithaca, NY to present the Order of t...

In late July, with the help of America2Iceland --and you, if you're game--I'm going to recreate my favorite scene from my first ...

Even her friends call her "peculiar."  Her Facebook pages (yes, she maintains several) are littered with selfies taken in the ...

This week I'm leading my second tour for America2Iceland , this one with a theme borrowed from my first book, A Good Horse Has No Colo...