#Icelandic writers

[onenakedfarmer]

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Anthology POEMS OF TODAY FROM TWENTY-FIVE ICELANDIC POETS

Selected and translated by Alan Boucher

[yourdailyqueer]

Guðbergur Bergsson

Gender: Male

Sexuality: Gay

DOB: 16 October 1932  

Ethnicity: White - Icelandic

Occupation: Writer, translator, teacher

[lazytownpoint]

NEW Interview with LazyTown Head Writer, Mark Valenti!!

Hey All!

To celebrate LazyTown's 20th Anniversary, Mark Valenti hit the air with a NEW Audio Interview Cosmik Laila (LTP / CLCI) did with him at SlackRadio.org - Here's the YouTube version!

Go Go LazyTown!

[illwynd]

fuck, it is so much fun writing in bastard kalevala metre

[penofglen]

Northern Lights in the City: When the Sky Danced Above London

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Hey there, stargazers and dream-chasers! Did you catch the celestial dance party in the sky this weekend? The Northern Lights, nature’s own light show, graced our UK skies, and let me tell you, it was a sight to behold—even with London’s neon glow trying to steal the spotlight! Now, I know what you’re thinking: “Aren’t those headlines just a bit of sensationalism?” You know the ones, claiming…

[theshatterednotes]

Icelandic author Gunnar Gunnarsson

[mamadoc]

After finishing my Snowed In story and before returning to my Catch story, I took a little time away from writing and went to Iceland with my 12 year old son. I told a few people I would post pictures of our trip. So here you go (this is part 2):

Snorkeling in 34 degree glacial run off waters in the Silfra Fissure. The European tectonic plate is on the left and the North American tectonic plate is on the right. This is the only place in the world that you can go in between two tectonic plates like this. Very cool.

Thingvellir National Park

Even the little streams had such amazing blue water. Sooo beautiful.

Watching a geyser go off

Gulfoss Waterfall.

Our bubble hotel way out in the Icelandic wilderness.

My son looking out from the infinity pool of a geothermal hot spring spa onto the North Atlantic.

We did an amazing 7 step ritual here with a hot spring, cold pool, sauna, rain room, full body scrub, steam room, cool shower, and then back to the hot spring. My skin felt AMAZING afterward.

And then we flew home and I reread my Catch of a Lifetime story on the plane, so I could starting writing for it again! Ha!

Such an amazing trip. We LOVED it.

[wordswithloveee]

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

[higherentity]

[scotianostra]

October 12th 1929 saw the birth of Magnus Magnusson, writer, broadcaster and quiznmaster in TV programme Mastermind.

Aye ah know he wasn’t born in Scotland but -I’ve started so I’ll finish!

Magnus was born in Reykjavík but grew up in Edinburgh, where his father, Sigursteinn Magnússon, was the Icelandic consul. Magnus’ Icelandic name at birth was Magnús Sigursteinsson, but in Scotland his family adopted British naming conventions and from childhood he used his father’s patronymic as a surname. Living in Joppa, he was educated at the Edinburgh Academy and was in the school’s marching brass band. So to those saying he’s not Scottish, he did live almost his entire life here.

After graduating from Jesus College, Oxford, Magnusson became a reporter with the Scottish Daily Express and The Scotsman. He went freelance in 1967, then joined the British Broadcasting Corporation, presenting programmes on history and archaeology as well as appearing in news programmes.

He retained his academic connections, however, and was  Lord Rector of Edinburgh University from 1975 to 1978 from 2002 served as chancellor of Glasgow Caledonian University.  The Magnus Magnusson Fellowship, an intellectual group based at the Glasgow Caledonian University, was named in his honour. Magnusson’s books included I’ve Started so I’ll Finish, a memoir of his years on Mastermind, and Scotland: The Story of a Nation.

Magnus of course is most famous for the quiz show, Mastermind, it was originally broadcast late on a Sunday night and was not expected to receive a huge audience. In 1973 it was moved to a prime-time slot as an emergency replacement for a Leslie Phillips sitcom, Casanova ‘73, which had been moved to a later time following complaints about its risqué content. The quiz subsequently became one of the most-watched shows on television. Magnusson was famous for his catchphrase “I’ve started so I’ll finish,” which was also the title of his history of the show. The original series was also noted for the variety of venues where filming took place—often including academic and ecclesiastical buildings. The last programme of the original series was filmed at St Magnus Cathedral in Orkney.

To further add to Magnus’s credentials for being a Scot he married Glasgow lass Mamie Ian Baird and they had 5 children together, including Reporting Scotland presenter Sally.

On 12th October 2006, his 77th birthday, Magnusson was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Magnusson mordantly noted that “This has to be one of my worst birthdays ever”. His condition forced him to cancel a string of public appearances. He died on 7 January 2007.The Aigas Field Centre a nature centre near Beauly has a building named in his honour.

In 2014 an auction sold off a lot of his belongings for the Scottish based Balmore Trust, a fair trade charity which sells fairly-traded goods in its shop The Coach House and supports projects in Africa, India and the west of Scotland.

Magnus Magnusson, Icelandic by birth Scottish through choice. Anyone still not convinced of his Scottish & Proud credentials, check out this quote from the man “I have got the best of both worlds; growing up in Edinburgh and now living outside Glasgow.”

Scotland is a welcoming country and have a rich culture which comes from all round the world, with his writing and knowledge Magnus brought so much to our country

Magnus Magnusson  is buried in Baldernock Churchyard, East Dunbartonshire.

My favourite of the pics is the younger Magnus on Calton Hill, Edinburgh, the colour of The Hotel in the background, is how I remember it having been the window cleaner there before it had a full restoration in the late 80′s. The black and white pic is when he was installed as Rector of Edinburgh University, among the other pics are Magnus in his robes as Chancellor of Glasgow Caledonian University.

[loustellaperry]

Photos from the Sky Lagoon in Kópavogur, Iceland, accompanied by a small entry from my travel journal.

27 June 2023

I feel like I can start again. I feel like I get a fresh start at life. Everything’s new. Every hellish time I’ve ever had, God has righted with this trip. Everything is bliss. I sat by the water and wrote poetry in my head and realized nothing’s bad.

Loustella Perry

[only-when-i-write]

[photo: Flashback Spring 2021]

The volcano I spend spring 2021 with, writing a now published novel (woop), drinking ridiculous amounts of tea and having countless movie nights, is hours away from erupting again. The webcams on the Reykjanes peninsula close to Reykjavik in Iceland are live.

I am way to emotional in my cortison induced state but hell did I miss you and our quiet mornings together.

[l11ll]

тнιηкιηg αвσυт вנσяк

[lara1hope]

Everyone interested in fantasy novels stop what you're doing!

Hi my name is Lara Hope and I'm a small writer currently writting a fantasy book named "Margygr" that will come out on Wattpad at an unknowed date🥲

This book will be about nordic mermaids inspired by Norse mythology and I need your help writting it!

-I'm trying to gatter as much knowledge as possible about sea creatures living around Iceland and Greenland or in the Arctic Ocean in general.

-I'm also looking to learn about Norse mythology (any subject on it) since I have the idea of another book also inspired by that.

-And finally I'm looking to find out about Icelandic traditions during the Christmas period (if you do any special things etc...) and if there are some fishermens among you guys how herring fishing works😭

Thank you for your time, if you have anything to share with me on these four topics, don't hesitate to let me know in the comments!

[fawnwelt]

Of Iceland and the steps you took in Rome

I’m waking up and my hands are full of summer’s heat and I’m taking down the world you hung up on your wall because it reminds me of the second country I left

the one whose cairns are made of dandelions where the air smells like clear soda and fresh laundry and arctic sulfur and lupine roads stretch out into horizon lines like the arms of god

and I come home and I say “home” and it makes those liminal grey corners feel so warm and later, strawberry, buck, and grain moonlight passes through returning those four letters to the shape of me, subtly changed

small thoughts of missing, none of loss, not yet smoothing over that one just gently peeling corner unpacking the everything that travels and comes h*me with you

[writteninmagic]

Want to read something new? I wrote a novella for Wattpad.

There are many forgotten worlds and stories…none greater than the tale of The Oilisdatter family from The Volga River Valley.

In a Vikings & Little Mermaid mashup, A Crack In The Sky is the first fantasy novella in a tale reminiscent of the Icelandic sagas. This novella follows the story of the Oilisdatter family's fight for survival amongst clan politics, grief, magical deals with sea witches, and a neutrality oath between neighboring clans who are brimming on the edge of a geopolitical trade war.

Trigger warnings: violence, gore, slavery, colonialism, war, death of a parent, PTSD, survivors guilt blood, gore.