The Icelandic Connection
When I was younger in my drinking days I would spend a lot of time talking about my unified theory of the Icelandic Connection. Briefly it goes like this.
Icelanders are not happy until they find an Icelandic Connection to any event or person in history… ever. No matter what comes up, Icelanders will go to any length to connect Iceland and/or Icelander to said event or person. I usually tagged to the idea that the theory will be “proven” when we can place an Icelander on the Titanic and to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
So this is the theory. I think this tendency of Icelanders stems mostly from deep rooted inferiority complex. It seems to be a sport among journalists to try to dig up these connections. This is nothing new and certainly is not unique for only Icelanders. But with a tiny nation of barely 300+ thousand souls the “connections” usually go from comical, to far fetched to sometimes absurd.
Here though, on this blog I am not going to be focusing on that. Mostly I’m thinking of making this a feature of things I come across that connect to the things I am interested in.
Let’s connect the dots 
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