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How the genetics of Iceland reveals its female Irish roots in story and song.
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. Buckley asks what is the legacy of that biology and what are the physical, cultural and aural traces of that relationship?
PRESENTER LINDA BUCKLEY WITH ORGANIST ARNHILDUR VALGARÐSDÓTTIR