Subject: Re: What were the Icelanders doing there?
From: boyajian@ruby.dec.com (Cisco's Buddy)
Date: 1990-05-25, 00:34
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks,rec.arts.tv

In article <14279@thorin.cs.unc.edu>, hardarso@unc.cs.unc.edu (Kari Hardarson) writes...

} Has anyone seen a higher purpose for putting the Icelandic group in the
} episodes? (They were Icelandic, The songs sung were: Oxar vid ana &
} Nu er frost a froni). My only theory is: There is this Icelandic guy
} named Sigurjon Sighvatsson who is somehow linked to the production of
} these shows. Maybe it's his way of making his presence known, a kind of
} Hitchcock touch. The fact that Icelanders are in an American town to
} make investments is a good one, it so happens that a lot of Icelandic
} contemporary movies and stories are about Americans doing the same thing
} over there. Icelanders on the other hand do *not* have money to spend. 

Possible, but I think not. Recall that in the pilot, they were trying to
sell Ghostwood to a bunch of Norwegian investors, who skipped out when
they heard about Laura's death. Eventually, Jerry scared up some Icelandic
investors. Perhaps he and Ben simply have a thing about Nordic types.

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