The Icelandic Sagas were first written down in the 13th century and tell the stories of the Norse settlers who began to arrive in Iceland 400 years before. They contain some of the richest and most extraordinary writing of the Middle Ages. Full of heroes, feuds, ghosts and outlaws, the sagas inspired later writers including Sir Walter Scott, William Morris and WH Auden. Melvyn Bragg is joined by Carolyne Larrington, Fellow and Tutor in Medieval English Literature at St John’s College, Oxford; Elizabeth Ashman Rowe, University Lecturer in Scandinavian History at the University of Cambridge and Emily Lethbridge, Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Árni Magnússon Manuscripts Institute in Reykjavík.
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In Our Time: Icelandic Sagas 09 May 13
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Economic Policy Deception | Michael Hudson
Another in the series of interviews on the Renegade Economists radio show (Australia), a wide ranging analysis of the advantages to wealth that money print…
http://michael-hudson.com/2013/03/economic-policy-deception/
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HRT - Otvorena srijeda - Island ; Izlazak iz krize
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Iceland Serves Up Road Salt for Dinner
Iceland has a big issue at hand at the moment.
“Salt”
And it is not about the kind that we sprinkle on food, but the one that we sprinkle on roads to stop the cars from sliding around the ice.
But maybe it is both.
It seems Icelanders have been seasoning their food with industrial or road salt for about 13 years, without realizing it.
Anchor Marco Werman talks to Thora Arnorsdottir, a news editor at Icelandic National Broadcasting in Reykjavík. She has been covering the salt scandal.
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RN Rear Vision - 18 May 2011 - Life after the GFC
The Global Financial Crisis had its roots in the collapse of the US housing bubble, which caused the values of securities tied to US real estate to plummet, in turn threatening the existence of many of the world’s biggest financial institutions. Rear Vision looks at how the aftershocks of the crisis are playing out around the world.
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/rearvision/stories/2011/3211434.htm
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Mótmælafundur á Austurvelli 24. janúar 2009
Mótmælafundur Radda fólksins á Austurvelli 24. janúar 2009
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