Prof. Gunnþórunn Guðmundsdóttir on Storytelling in Ireland & Iceland

MBSS: Podcast 8. Dr. Gunnþórunn Guðmundsdóttir on The Power of Storytelling in Ireland & Iceland. Dr. Gunnþórunn Guðmundsdóttir is Professor of Literature at the University of Iceland, Reykjavik. She's has been a visiting scholar at University College Dublin under its Iceland-Ireland project and for this podcast in the Mother's Blood, Sister Songs series composer and presenter Linda Buckley asked her to explore what links Irish and Icelandic storytelling.  You can find out more about Gunn and her work here uni.hi.is/gunnth/english/ and check out a short video from our interview with her on our website www.mothersbloodsistersongs.com

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How the genetics of Iceland reveals its Irish motherhood; an exploration of the connections between Iceland and Ireland presented by composer Linda Buckley and produced Helen Shaw at Athena Media. Acclaimed Irish composer Linda Buckley has a personal and professional affinity to Iceland and in this radio series she teams up with documentary maker Helen Shaw to trace the connections between the two places. The Icelandic female line goes directly back to gaelic women, mostly taken as slaves, by Norwegian Vikings who settled the land over a thousand years ago. http://mothersbloodsistersongs.com