Although his sister, Vigdís, is a well-known novelist in Iceland, Grímsson, 56, was a private person, who liked to be, as he put it, “without a face”. It was a rental vehicle, which the company said had been hired by a crew member of the Polar Nanoq, Thomas Møller Olsen, a 25-year-old man from Greenland. By the Tuesday, three days after Birna disappeared, the Polar Nanoq was many hundreds of miles away, fishing off Greenland. Since leaving Iceland, Thomas Olsen and his companion from the car, Nikolaj Olsen (a fellow Greenlander, no relation), had seemed their usual selves. With the Polar Nanoq just hours away, the harbour at Hafnarfjörður was sealed off to keep the public at a distance.

Source: The Guardian April 12, 2018 04:52 UTC