Eirik

Ironically, it was not the disappearance of the Norse Greenlanders that intrigued me, but the powerful image of the pagan seeress, Thorbjorg, giving prophecy in Eirik’s Saga, one of the Vinland Sagas that recounts the establishment of the settlements.

Judith Lindbergh - An interview with author 2010

There were bone tools and spindle whorls carved by hand, occasionally bits of cloth, the single partition in Eirik the Red’s byre that was actually made of a whale’s shoulder blade, all illustrating the settlers’ daily experience and industry as no broad survey could.

Judith Lindbergh - An interview with author 2010

Eirik Johnson for The Wall Street Journal Craigie On Main: Food & Wine magazine named Tony Maws one of the best new chefs in America, and his burger one of the country's top 25.

The Brainy New England Metropolis 2011

The germ of her character came from an actual artifact, a runestick found in Narsaq, Greenland, not far from where Eirik the Red’s homestead once lay.

Judith Lindbergh - An interview with author 2010

Photographs by Eirik Johnson for The Wall Street Journal Liberty Hotel: If jail is bad, why does this prison-turned-luxury hotel feel so good?

The Brainy New England Metropolis 2011

The feeling was unquestionable, as I walked alone through volcanic scree in the shadow of the Snaefellsjokull glacier in Iceland or sat on the ruined edge of the longhouse that had once been Eirik the Red’s home.

Judith Lindbergh - An interview with author 2010

The stone wall that Eirik built begins there, running down in the direction of the white house, and then left.

favorite quote | clusterflock 2009

Still, there was nothing more transforming than actually standing in my characters’ footsteps, in the middle of the tiny horseshoe shaped outline of Thjoldhilde’s church overlooking Eirik the Red’s longhouse ruins in Greenland.

Judith Lindbergh - An interview with author 2010

Those who worship symbols will be titillated by the fact that Oxen Island appears at fi rst to be E-shaped, E for Eirik, but it is not, and Oxen Island did not quite fi t Eirik.

favorite quote | clusterflock 2009

It is logical enough from the various mentions in the sagas: that Einarsfjord was originally settled by a chieftain named Einar, that Einarsfjord is the location of the farm Gardar, and that Freydis Eiriksdatter, Eirik the Red’s illegitimate daughter, married a man called Torvard primarily to inherit the vast, prosperous homestead Gardar.

Judith Lindbergh - An interview with author 2010