
While their mother is dying in the modern Gimli, Manitoba hospital, two young children are told an important tale by their Icelandic grandmother about Einar the lonely, his friend Gunnar, and the angelic Snjofrieder in a Gimli of old.

as Einar the Lonely / Minstrel

as Gunnar

as Snjófridur

as Amma

as Granddaughter

as Grandson

as John Ramsay

as Pastor Osbaldison / Patient

as Lord Dufferin

as Fish Princess

as Gunnar's Strolling Companion / Gimli Maiden

as Dying Mother

as Angry Husband

as Angel

as Angel with Mustache

as Sigvalda Sigurdsdottír

as Valdimar / Gimli Manfolk

as Gravedigger #1

as Gravedigger #2 / Highlander

as Elfa Egilsdóttir / Nurse / Gimli Maiden

as Nurse

as Nurse

as Nurse

as Nurse

as Nurse / Gimli Maiden

as Nurse

as Gimli Manfolk / Patient

as Gimli Manfolk

as Gimli Manfolk

as Gimli Manfolk

as Gimli Manfolk

as Gimli Manfolk / Bleeding Patient / Highlander

as Gimli Manfolk

as Gimli Manfolk

as Gimli Manfolk

as Gimli Maiden

as Gimli Maiden

as Gimli Maiden / Dancer

as Gimli Maiden