The Reykjavík Grapevine's Almost Completely True History of Iceland

Season 01: The Alternative History of Iceland

What if Icelanders had settled in North America during the Viking Age? What if Iceland was wiped out by a volcano and the survivors moved to Denmark? What if Iceland had been occupied by the Nazis instead of the Allies? What if the Nordic Countries had united? And what if the economic collapse had been averted?
Listen to historians Valur Gunnarsson and Jón Trausti Sigurðarson talk about Icelandic history as it happened and what could have been.
Produced by Sindri Freyr Steinsson

Season 02: The Last Viking Mystery
What happened to the Viking colony in Greenland, which strangely disappeared after almost 500 years? Join us in a voyage of discovery that takes us from the home of Eric the Red in Western Iceland to the Viking settlement in North America and the frozen wastes of Greenland as we try to solve the greatest mystery the North has even known.

Host

Valur Gunnarsson

Valur Gunnarsson is a historian and writer who grew up on the Viking trail in Iceland, Norway and Yorkshire, England. He is best known for his Bjarmalönd trilogy, which is a historical travelogue through the former USSR, war-torn Ukraine and a dramatic family history in Germany.

Among previous works is the best-selling Örninn og fálkinn, a dystopia about an imagined German occupation of Iceland in 1940, two other novels, a non-fic book of counterfactual history and an album of Leonard Cohen songs in Icelandic.
He worked at the Eastern Vikings department at the University of Iceland and studied in Reykjavik, Helsinki, Berlin, Belfast and the University of East Anglia, He was also the first editor of Reykjavik Grapevine Magazine and has written for the Guardian, Associated Press and Berliner Zeitung. His first book in English is What if Vikings Conquered the World and Other Questions of Icelandic and Nordic History, available on Salka Publishing.

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