Vordur
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© 2004-2005 Icetips Software
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Vordur is a word taken from Icelandic. The Icelandic spelling is Vörður which means a guard, keeper, protector, watcher, etc. The Vordur software protects and guards the information about your software installs.
The picture that we have chosen to use in Vordur to represent the guard is an image of Leifur Eiriksson who was the first European to discover America in the early 11th century.
Statue of Leifur Eiriksson in front of Hallgrimskirkja Cathedral
©2002 Arnor Baldvinsson
The statue in the picture was given by the United States to the people of Iceland in 1930 on the thousand year anniversary of the Icelandic parliament, Althing. It stands tall in front of the Hallgrimskirkja cathedral in central Reykjavik.
The background on the top of the About window is a tiled image that was cut out of a picture taken on Christmas Day 2004 in Port Lavaca in Texas.
View east out to the Bay of Mexico from Port Lavaca on Christmas Day 2004. The moon hovers over the horizon.
©2004 Arnor Baldvinsson
In Icelandic, Vörður is also the plural of Varða, which means a cairn - a mound of rocks used as landmarks or as a memorial.
Prophetess grave memorial cairn in East Iceland between Reydarfjordur and Eskifjordur
©2004 Arnor Baldvinsson
Why Icelandic? The owner of Icetips Software and the developer of Vordur is Icelandic.
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