Icelandic Gifts
Viking Treasures carries an assortment of products imported from Iceland. Stop in today to find the perfect Icelandic gift.
Our Icelandic items include: flags, windsocks, decals, key chains, lapel pins and books. Our books on Iceland include: ‘Journey Through Iceland’, ‘Iceland: a True Book’, ‘Insight Guide to Iceland’, ‘The Ice Horse’, ‘Escape from the Vikings’, ‘Viking Age Iceland’, ‘Njal’s Saga’, ‘The Saga of Icelanders’, ‘The History of Iceland’, ‘History of Scandinavia’, ‘The Great Scandinavian Baking Book’ and two CDs, ‘Sissel Northern Lights’ and ‘Skandia: A Definitive Collection of Traditional Nordic Rhythms’. We also have a dishcloth embroidered with an Icelandic flag/Viking helmet design. Included in our selections of Viking jewelry are reproductions made by Tennung Design of Sweden based on Thor’s hammer from Fosse, Iceland.
Come into Viking Treasures to learn more about Icelandic culture and history.
Leif Erikson Day is observed on October 9th to honor Leif Erikson (son of the Norwegian, Erik the Red) who sailed to North America, in the year 1000, landing on the coast of Labrador and continuing south to ‘Vinland’. There is a monument of Leif Erikson in Reykjavik, Iceland that is inscribed; “Leifr Eiricsson* Son of Iceland Discoverer of Vinland The United States of America to the people of Iceland on the one thousandth anniversary of the althing AD 1930”. An althing was an annual assembly held to discuss laws and sort out problems (a type of ancient parliament) that every free man on Iceland could attend. It was established AD 930.
To check out some Icelandic history a little closer to home, go to see the statue of Leif Erikson in Humboldt Park, Chicago.
*Leifr Eiricsson is the spelling used on the monument in Reykjavik. More common spellings include Leif Erickson or Leiv Ericson.
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