Author: Lawrence Millman
A Cure For Whatever Ails You
Let me begin with a confession: sales of my books don’t pay the rent, so I’m obliged to lead plant and…
One Man’s Miracle
Möðrudalur, one of the most isolated farms in Iceland, lies under the icy nipple of Mt. Herðubreið in the northeastern…
In The Giant Redwood Forests Of Iceland
Can the Icelandic Forest Service restore the nation’s long-lost tree cover?Visitors to Iceland seem to have no interest in the…
The Last Emperor Of Atlantis Was An Icelander
Karl Kerulf Einarsson, aka Dunganon, aka the Duke of St. Kilda, aka Emperor Cormorant XII of Atlantis, was both an…
Cemetery Erections
Beatrix Potter could not find the courage to draw one. Charles Darwin’s daughter Etty destroyed all the specimens she could…
Grímsey: Hanging Out On The Arctic Circle
“You’re spending five days on Grímsey?”, a Reykjavík friend asked me in astonishment. “But there’s nothing to do there.” ”Precisely…
Grímsey: Island Of Chess Players
Willard is not your typical Icelandic name, but until a few decades ago it was a not an uncommon name…
Tangling With Tupilaks
A kayaker friend who’d just returned from East Greenland told me a very strange story. He said that a tupilak…