Hraun á Skaga is a small family farm located on the northernmost tip of the Skagafjördur peninsula in north Iceland, just under the Arctic Circle. Icelanders know Hraun á Skaga for its weather station reports announced on public radio, and for a rare visit by a polar bear in 2008 who had drifted over from Greenland. For a century now, however, a mainstay for the farm on this geologically young lava land has been the gentle practice of eiderdown collection, along