All Things Icelandic
This website makes use
of Icelandic photos, in tribute to the Icelandic background
of both Dr. Barry Whitney and his wife Juliann (nee
Blackmore) --also of Icelandic descent, who has had a distinguished
career in media, including the research and production
of several TV programs and a well-known Icelandic-Canadian
film, A
Saga of Hope, a film about the hardships in the
immigration of her great-grandfather from Iceland to
Canada. Juliann was instrumental in the design and construction
of this new website and directs and edits Dr Whitney's
podcasts (available on this site and on i-tunes).
Barry
Whitney's
ICELANDIC
GENEAOLOGY has
been documented back 2000 years (70 generations) to
a King in Asia Minor, born in the year 20 AD. Included
in the geneaology are some of the original settlers
of Iceland from Norway, Swedish kings and nobility in
England, and many Icelandic priests.
JULIANN WHITNEY's "SAGA
OF HOPE":
A Western-Icelandic film
JÓN LEIFS: Iceland's Greatest Classical Music Composer
BJöRK: Iceland's greatest singer-songwriter
sensation
Iceland
Tourist Board: Official and Informative Site
A
Panoramic view of Rejkavík, seen from the suburbs (slow
loading)
Icelandic Genealogy
Emigration to North America
Icelandic Bible
Icelandic-English
Bible: dozens of languages
Bookmarks
for Iceland: Mega
Resource site
Reykjavik
Iceland weather
ICELAND webcams
BILL BOURNE: Western Icelander (Canadian) singer-songwriter
Daily News from Iceland
Postcards from Iceland
Icelandic National League of North America
Icelandic Canadian Club
of Toronto
† 
Hellnar
Church, Iceland -- Barry and Juliann at sunrise
Mass (2:30am) at the end of the pilgrimage on Snæfellsnes
peninsula, Western Iceland (June 21, 2006)
Snæfellsnes
peninsula in Western Iceland -- © Barry Whitney,
2006
Lava fields
in Northern Iceland near Myvatn (2002)
Barry's Family
Homestead (Eiðsstaðir) in North-cental Iceland
from which his great-great grandfather Benedikt Olafsson
and his family, including Barry's great-grandfather, Jón
Benediktsson, emigrated to Canada in 1874. Alll
photos on this page: © by
Barry Whitney
