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.

Kyle McCulloch
as Einar the Lonely / Minstrel

Michael Gottli
as Gunnar

Angela Heck
as Snjófridur

Margaret Anne MacLeod
as Amma

Heather Neale
as Granddaughter

David Neale
as Grandson

Don Hewak
as John Ramsay

Ron Eyolfson
as Pastor Osbaldison / Patient

Chris Johnson
as Lord Dufferin

Donna Szöke
as Fish Princess