According to folklore, a Gaelic-speaking warrior queen called Aud was among Iceland's earliest settlers. Her story is central to an emerging theory that Scottish and Irish Celts played a far bigger role in Iceland's history than realised. A book by Thorvaldur Fridriksson, an Icelandic archaeologist and journalist, argues that Gaelic-speaking Celtic settlers from Ireland and western Scotland had a profound impact on the Icelandic language, landscape and early literature. Lês en sjoch ...
Dat boek sûnder ein, de krante: wat en wêr soene wy wêze sûnder de útdragers fan it nijs? De tiisdeis foar de krystdagen hear ik jûns om sân oere de doarbelle. Ik rin de gong yn, doch de lampen oan en meitsje de foardoar iepen. Twa minsken: it tichtst by de doarbel in famke fan in jier of tsien. Skean efter har in man. It famke jout my it winskkaartsje fan de krante. Der ûntstiet tusken ús trijen in koarte konversaasje, dy't ik hjir efkes sa goed mooglik rekonstruearje moat. 'Het Haarlems ...