Must be all the Salt Fish

I'm having a glorious time with Asgeir Jonsson's Why Iceland? which  I picked up because I wanted to learn how a country smaller than Anaheim could immure itself in a world-class banking mess. I am learning a bit about Icelandic banking, but my inquiries have also disclosed:

• The poster bad boy of the Icelandic meltdown (yuk yuk) is one Björgólfur Thor Björgólfsson, mercifully called "Thor." His mother is the niece of the once-Bishop of Iceland, and the former wife of the late George Lincoln Rockwell, America's most famous avowed Nazi.

• The prime minister of Iceland is the first (and only?) leader of any nation in a same sex marriage.  

• The first lady (wife of the President) is the daughter of a distinguished family of Israeli/Bukharan Sephardic Jews.

• Okay, so you knew all that. But did you know about this (H/T to my cousin Dave, an 86-year-old boaster).

More about bank failure later.