HeyJaredIceland Substack
Icelandic culture Substack: history, archaeology, food, literature… if you are tired of the usual puffin and viking bullshit, this is the place for you!
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Iceland’s Forgotten Songs (opens the original)
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Contemporary Icelandic music is heard, performed, played and loved around the world, but far less is known about the country’s older musical traditions. Folk music, whose origins are often difficult to trace, is enjoying a revival and rediscovery, while other forms have been almost forgotten. Much of the medieval Gregorian chant composed in Iceland was lost after the Reformation, though splendid examples survive, including the Office of the Hours of Saint Þorlákur. Another part of Iceland’s musi
Icelandic Is Learnable. Proving It Should Be Easier. (opens the original)
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Scribes and Writing in Late-Medieval Iceland (opens the original)
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Iceland can’t read (opens the original)
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Stöð (opens the original)
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