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  • Abe Yanofsky plays chess at the Manitoba Open Chess Championship in 1984. Following a victory against Mikhail Botvinnik in 1946, Yanofsky was invited to play at a special tournament in Reykjavik, Iceland, where he played against and inspired future chess star Fridrik Olafsson.

    Chess has linked Gimli and Reykjavik since 1880s

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  • Iceland's Consul General Atli Ásmudsson and his wife Thrudur Helgadóttir standing in front of the Jón Sigurdsson statue at the Manitoba Legislature grounds. Sigurdsson was an Icelandic patriot and statesman who helped Iceland gain independence.

    Leaving home, and going home

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Icelandic sheep on Clayton and Wendy Kunzelman�s Interlake farm: �They look like something from a fairy tale.�

    Icelandic settlers of the ruminant persuasion making inroads here

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  • Vínarterta, a prune layer cake

    Towering torte

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  • Filmmaker-writer-editor Caelum Vatnsdal: '(Guy Maddin) always maintains that if you have one little drop of Icelandic blood, it enriches or pollutes -- depending on your perspective -- the rest of your blood, and you're therefore Icelandic no matter how infinitesimal the amount.'

    Icelandic Canadians are in the arts because they're artistic

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  • The 1920 Winnipeg Falcons --  winners of the first ice hockey Olympic gold medal.

    Golden boys

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    A biased and snarky list of things Icelandic (and non-Icelandic)

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  • Filmmaker Guy Maddin is helping to create the new Icelandic mythologies.

    Icelandic-Canadian literature as 21st-century sagas

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  • U of M strengthens historic bond

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    The subject of Icelandic language, literature and culture is taught in more than 100 universities worldwide. Of all the programs ...

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