How much do we inherit from our ancestors? One winter, Kári Gíslason travelled to Iceland to find his own answers. Hear about the adventures of one man who went back into the records and deep into the remote countryside of his family’s past looking for Viking poets, medieval authors, and the uncertain genetics of creativity.

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How much do we inherit from our ancestors? One wi…