History is a fairly new academic subject in Iceland, having first entered into university curriculums in the 1970s. The discipline is a form of intellectual time travel that puts historians in charge of bringing information from past to present – a task made immediately more complicated by the distortion of context. Put simply: history is […]
Wielding Narrative
How Iceland’s storytellers are reshaping the country’s past and present
Words by
KT Browne
KT Browne
Illustrations by
Elín Elísabet Einarsdóttir
Elín Elísabet Einarsdóttir
History is a fairly new academic subject in Iceland, having first entered into university curriculums in the 1970s. The discipline is a form of intellectual time travel that puts historians in charge of bringing information from past to present – a task made immediately more complicated by the distortion of context. Put simply: history is […]
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