Note: Most Icelandic names comprise a given name plus a patronymic (ending –son or –dóttir) that indicates family origin but usually changes with each generation. Inverting these seems unhelpful so, while Charles Lindbergh appears at “L,” John Thorbjarnarson will be found under “J” rather than “T.” Italic page references lead to full-page illustrations; “n” refers to one of the numbered endnotes (indexed only very selectively) after page 324.
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A
accidents, fishing
acidity see ocean acidification; pH scale
Activ of London, (schooner)
agricultural inefficiency
Air Ground Rescue Team (FBSR)
aircraft / air travel
emissions in a wider context
“flight shame” (flygskam)
Grandma Hulda’s enthusiasms
Keflavik dance performance
as symbolic of progress
wreck on Vatnajökull glacier
Alaska
alphabets, evolution
Althing see parliaments
aluminium industry
anacondas
animal feed
Anna Rún Tryggvadóttir
Anní Ólafsdóttir
Anthropocene era
apartment at Ásvallagata
apathy and fatalism
as protective philosophy
public apathy and paralysis
apocalypse and “apausalypse”
aragonite
Arinbjörn Hersir (trawler)
Arnar Thórisson (photographer)
Arndís Thorbjarnardóttir (Grandpa Björn’s sister)
Árni Einarsson (conservationist)
Árni Kjartansson see Grandpa
Árni Árni Magnússon Institute for Medieval Studies.
Arrhennius, Svante
Attenborough, David
Audhumla (mythical cow)
author’s vision of
the Dalai Lama on
in Icelandic mythology
insight shared with Gudmundur Páll Ólafsson
possible links with Hinduism
author’s mother see Kristín Björnsdóttir
B
Backman, Edda Heidrun
Balbo, Italo
Baldvin Einarsson
banking collapse (2008)
basalt, promise for carbon sequestration
beauty, in landscapes
belief systems, collapse
Bergsöe, Jonas, Captain
Berlin Wall
Bhagavad Gita
Bíldudalur altarpiece
biodiversity
bioluminescence
bird species
chickens
eider ducks
frigate birds and pelicans
gannets and terns
geese
the great auk
sea eagles
starlings
Björn Thorbjarnarson see Grandpa Björn
Bogezi, Carol
Book of Settlements
Brahmaputra, River
brain coral (Diploria labyrinthiformis)
Buddhism
in China and Tibet
Dhammapada: The Way of Truth
interconnectedness
investigatory techniques
Mount Kailas significance
reincar...