The Icelandic
Community Newspaper
Community Newspaper
Established
1886
1886
Lögberg-Heimskringla
Telling the stories of the Icelandic people — in print, online, and aloud.
Built in 1916 by the hands of the community itself, the hall opens its doors again after three years of work — and the names behind it still echo.
Minerva Hall will celebrate the grand opening of its newly renovated and expanded facility on Thursday, June 11, at 6:30 p.m. The improvement project was launched three years ago, and the open house will mark its completion after much hard work.
The original Minerva Hall was built in 1916. Several men of the community helped to raise it, but the main carpenters were Simbi Josephson and Mundi Narfason. Before events, it was Elli Narfason who lit the Coleman lanterns and started a fire in the barrel stoves to ready the hall.
After electric lights were installed, it was a teenaged Raymond Sigurdson who lit the fires. For years, Oli Narfason plowed the snow from the driveway and the parking lot, season after season.
Each story read aloud — on the page, or in your podcast app for the drive, the walk, or whenever reading isn't easy.
A retired biologist from Georgia traces an unlikely path into Icelandic literature — by way of a 19th-century French archive.
Actor and writer David Jón Fuller on Iceland, the stage, and finally putting the book that was always inside him onto the page.
From the Westfjords to Winnipeg — the paper reflects the diversity of Icelandic culture across more than a century.
Short, cinematic retellings of the sagas and the settler journeys — carrying the oldest Icelandic voice in North America to an audience that's never picked up the paper.
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