Posts Tagged ‘Hofsós’
Connect Newsletter Fall 2025 Releases
CATCH UP ON SUMMER EVENTS! The Fall 2025 edition of the Connect is now available on the INLUS.org website. We have stories from across North America and Iceland for you to explore. The North American Icelandic community has been busy celebrating major milestones (Minneota, we see you!) and listening to Icelandic choirs singing in North…
Read MoreA Snorri West Participant Experiences an Icelandic Roots Success Story
Note: The Snorri West program brings Icelanders 20 – 30 years of age to North America for a four-week summer trip. The 2025 program application deadline is Monday, February 17. The cost for the 2025 program will be USD 3000. To learn more, go to the Snorri.is website. By Jody Arman-Jones, Co-Director Snorri West…
Read MoreINLUS Webinar – Icelandic Emigration Center
INLUS Webinar on Vesturfarasetrið, the Iceland Emigration Center The Icelandic Emigration Center, Vesturfarasetrið, was a dream of its founder, Valgeir Thorvaldsson, when he looked at the sleepy Northern Iceland village of Hofsós in 1990. Hofsós was a historic trading village and was the region where the first historic European settler to North America, Thorfinnur Karlsefni resided.…
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