God of Wednesday

In the old days, when Icelanders lived in turf houses like this one, how did the children play? The English traveler Alice Selby visite...

A friend who is going to Iceland with me next summer, on her first trip there, gave me Hannah Kent's novel, Burial Rites , last Octob...

Whenever I see an Icelandic turf house, especially from the back, I think of the opening of Tolkien's The Hobbit: "In a hole i...