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400 years later: reconciliation between Basques and Icelanders

Hól­mavík. El lugar donde se colocará la placa en recuerdo de los balleneros vascos asesinados Photo: Sigurður Bogi Sæ­vars­son
This article was tranlated by Iustrans Truth be told, the reconciliation between Basques and Icelanders took place many centuries ago, as evidenced by the existence...

The North Atlantic, the “Sea of the Basques”, and we didn’t...

Biscayarhalvøya peninsula on the central part of the north coast of Albert I Land, northern Spitsbergen.
They say that a people who forget their history are condemned to repeat it.  We imagine that this sentence refers to negative aspects, because...

The plaques designating Red Bay as a World Heritage Site are...

This article was translated by John R. Bopp There are matters where we get the impression that either we're obsessed or we have a completely different...

A 16th century Basque ship, and UN symbol, will set sail...

logo del programa Patrimonio Cultural Subacuático de la Unesco, con la imagen de la imagen del ballenero vasco San Juan encontrado en Red Bay
This article was translated by John R. Bopp The Windsor Star is a Canadian daily published in the city located just across the strait/border from Detroit. They've just...

An enthralling report on the Basques in Iceland and the “Basque-Icelandic...

Katharina Hauptmann has just published a thrilling article in the Iceland Review about the existence of a Basque-Icelandic pidgin while also discussing the history of...

Basques in Canada: Saint Pierre et Miquelon, 1902-1954-2012: Zazpiak Bat

Bandera de Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon
This article was translated by John R. Bopp Thanks to @ybarralde for tipping us off to this Canadian documentary Director Gil la Roche and journalist Pierre Gauvreau...

The Basque of the Native Americans of the Gulf of St....

This is hardly the first time we've brought up the Basque whalers in Canada, like the time we mentioned the discovery of the oldest...

A huge discovery: a Basque ax, the oldest iron object ever...

Poblado Huron  - Citizen59
This article was translated by John R. Bopp The history of the arrival of non-Hispanic Europeans to the coasts of North America now has to be...

The ‘Pakea Bizkaia’ reaches the Azores, and some of the lesser-known...

After traveling through Newfoundland and Labrador in search of the remains of the Basque presence in their waters, as we mentioned a few days ago,...