Iceland - contnued

 I had been trying to figure out what attracted me abut each country so that I could settle in on a purpose. And the main contenders, though all equal in allure, still lacked one thing, and that was being a frontier, and I just could not escape the idea that despite perfections and great people achieving great things, the important thing to me about ancestry is the stories of those who lived that we can learn, and thereby stand on their shoulders.

The early latter-day saints offer many stories of conviction and endurance and conviction, as does the story of Moses and his pioneer saints, in fact I have often heard Brigham Young likened unto Moses, the thing that is strikingly common is that to actually perfect their way of life escape was required. Is there something to that? I instantly thought of Enya's song about the place of no frontier, even my great grandfather tried to find one in Alaska, huh? why? and there is my answer.

It started for me in realizing commonalities in languages that I probably imagined there, but I knew one thing wanderlust is powerful and I was not wrong in thinking about why. Even the American Indians sought refuge in a frontier, well, maybe there are no more, hence the growing interest in colonizing other habital planets, this is the point I thought again on Iceland.

Maybe being so frigid and isolated by water has kept the population down. technically I would not be undoing anything ancestors fought that I might have. They never lived there, plus, what I can tell from the oral history or Sagas that the population is pretty much half Scottish and half Scandinavian. Love it! Any my perfect little Norway is usually the deceptive enemy, that fit's too.

There is no escaping that life in Iceland would be extremely difficult, but in comparison, it would be sooo much easier than colonizing, let's say, Titan. And maybe, that was a little privy conversation I never heard where my Greatgrandfather decided to try isolation by cold, volcanic location...