Here are some videos of the grandchildren meeting the puppies. Cute all the way around!
The name, Rún, is pronounced Roon. It has the same root as “rune”, the .
How we got Rún is a story in itself.
We met Saevar Leifsson and his wife, Frida Gudmundsdottir, in the United States when they showed up as dinner guests at some friends’ with their 3 young children and an Icelandic sheepdog puppy they had brought over for them. After Sarah had spent a little time with the dog she told Frida that if she ever bred her she would like one of her puppies. A few years later, Frida had one for us: Rún, named after her daughter. Now the sad part. Frida had come down with a brain cancer that outlasted two operations. When we picked the puppy up at their farm in Maryland, Frida asked us to promise to breed Rún so that the bloodline would remain.
Frida is remembered, of course, by us through Rún and her offspring as well as by many others through the Icelandic .
Here Frida is placing Rún for a ride on one of their horses. It has become a tradition with us, too, to put the puppies on our horses so they can get used to each other.
After we left the farm we took a break on the highway. Rún decided she liked her new family.
A little while later, Frida and the family visited Kristján and Johanna with the kids before going back to Iceland. They said bless bless to Rún.
