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New series celebrates Iceland's greatest female icon
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New series celebrates Iceland's greatest female icon

"I am not planning on breastfeeding the nation". LFI #138

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Mar 19, 2025
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Góðan daginn!

Yesterday I finished watching the Icelandic mini-series Vigdís, based on the life of Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, Iceland’s first female president, who was also the first democratically-elected female head of state in the world.

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I lived abroad in 1980 when Vigdís was elected, and was at an age where I probably wouldn’t have paid much attention an…

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