Einar Ragnarsson Kvaran

During his childhood the family moved to Gimli, Manitoba, Canada and then to Árborg, where his father was the minister of the Unitarian Church from 1930 to 1933 and the publisher of the Icelandic newspaper Morgunblaðið.

[7] In 1952 Einar was employed by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and was posted to Sri Lanka (at that time, "Ceylon") where his fourth son was born.

When Steve Nawrocki, director of the program "said goodbye to Meals on Wheels drivers Einar and Clara Kvaran," he wondered "how many volunteers it would take to replace them.

Before he died Einar requested that some of his ashes be spread in the Hvalvatn area, where he spent summers as a youth serving as a fishing guide and a horse handler.

[12][13] Einar published a series of articles entitled Our Ancestors about significant Icelanders of the past, populating it with figures such as "Killer Glumur", "Unnur the Deepminded", "Olafur Peacock", "Ulfur the Cross-eyed", "Thorstein the Handsome", "Thorkell Badmouth" and Ketill the flat-nosed.

In the introduction to the Our Ancestors series Einar describes it as not "a history of Iceland" but "more like a family photo album from which most of the snapshots have been lost".