Editorial:
     - Brian Hetherington

A New Myth for our Times: The Joan Bodger Memorial Lecture, presented April 2, 2006
     - Dan Yashinsky

Of Elves, Glaciers and Waterfalls: An Exploration of Icelandic Folklore
     - Brian Hetherington

Person of the Year
-    - B.J. McCabe

Lest We Forget: A Story for Telling
    - Bruce Carmody

Buzz  
    - Jay Pitter

The 29th Toronto Festival of Storytelling: Highlights

Seemingly-fragile wisps of carmine-flowered thyme poke out from pockets in the lava and blow in the wind. Glaciers, so small and pure white in the distance, emerge as vast yet dirty when close up and are so large you can almost lose sight of anything brown or green when hiking on them. Stand full of awe on a rocky plateau where all around you is nothing but rock and mountains and no plants above two centimetres in height. Walk through the twisted green distortions of moss-encrusted lava fields or through misty rock outcrops, misty not from fog, but from the superheated waters gurgling out of the ground. Waterfalls and steam vents seem to outnumber the trees. This is Iceland. It is into this landscape that the sagas and folktales of Iceland are set. It is no wonder that the landscape plays such an important part in the folklore of this country.