Posts Tagged ‘Iceland 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.…