About Birna Bjarnadottir BIRNA BJARNADOTTIR is acting head and chair and Graduate head and chair in the Department of Icelandic Studies at the University of Manitoba. Books by Birna Bjarnadottir The Young Icelander The story of an immigrant in Nova Scotia and Manitoba by (author) Johan Magnus Bjarnason introduction by Birna Bjarnadottir My Parents Memoirs of New World Icelanders edited by Birna Bjarnadottir & Finnbogi Gudmundsson