fighting over driftwood Interview with Þórunn Þorsteinsdóttir, University of Iceland ; How exactly do arbitration committees work? Arbitration committees were created in 1798 and usually consisted of a local administrative official and the priest. They would come...
I grew up with driftwood Interview with Valgeir Benediktsson, carpenter and craftsman, Árnes ? Could you tell us a little bit about your relation with driftwood? I grew up with driftwood. My parents resettled here when I was a baby, they rented a part of the...
Driftwood was a resource you didn't want to waste Interview with Lísabet Guðmundsdóttir, PhD student, University of Iceland ; What makes this site here at Hvítsandar special? Driftwood has been a very important resource for the Icelandic nation basically since the...
I’m really lucky to be alive Interview with Björn Guðjónsson, Bakkagerði ; How was the driftwood situation here in the past? Nowadays, we only receive very little driftwood here and mostly it’s lousy timber. But in the older days a lot of driftwood came ashore. We...
Origin of the arctic Driftwood Interview with Ólafur Eggertsson, Icelandic Forest Service ? I would like to know more about the archival character of driftwood – what kind of information does it contain? We can find driftwood on all Icelandic beaches; all of it...
