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Click on the picture to watch a video of the 18th century turf farm Glaumbaer in the peaceful countryside in Skagafjördur, north Iceland. The clip was made by Bent Sørensen and Berit Møller who shot a series of videos during their trip to Iceland in 2010. They can be viewed on their YouTube channel. Copyright: Bent Sørensen and Berit Møller.
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Located just 40 minutes by car and six minutes from Keflavík International Airport, Sandgerdi (“Sandy Hedge”) is a growing town of 1,700 with a storied history and loads to see. Read this special promotion about the hidden secrets of one of Iceland's most charming seaside villages.
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No polar bears were discovered during a special search mission by Coast Guard helicopter TF-LIF yesterday in Hornstrandir in the northeastern West Fjords and on Skagi peninsula in northwest Iceland where the previous two polar bears swam ashore.
“They combed the area from Adalvík, to Hornstrandir and Saudárkrókur but a white teddy tail was nowhere to be found,” a duty officer at the Coast Guard told Morgunbladid. “The only thing they reported to have seen was a light horse on Skagatá, but that may have been a joke.”
The Hornstrandir ranger was onboard the helicopter. The Coast Guard, the Environment Agency of Iceland and the Icelandic Institute of Natural History organized the search.
The footprints, which Polish tourists discovered in the highlands near Hveravellir and looked like paw prints from a bear, turned out to be from a lone horse. The hoof prints had been distorted in the muddy ground, ruv.is reports.
Polar bears have wandered that far inland before and considering that the Polish tourists had not heard news of the two polar bears that swam ashore in Skagafjördur earlier in the month, police believed it was safer to make sure a third bear wasn’t roaming around Hveravellir.
Click here to read more about the alleged bear prints.
Bryndís Björginsdóttir received the 2011 Icelandic Children’s Literary Award for her book Flugan sem stödvadi strídid (“The Fly That Stopped the War”) on Tuesday, which was also published at the occasion.
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The third annual international music festival Slátur, or Sláturtíd, referencing the making of blood and liver pudding which takes place in Icelandic kitchens at this time of year, kicks off in the capital today and will run through October 3.
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Two large icebergs are currently drifting on the sailing route off the coast of the West Fjords and may prove dangerous to vessels. Chunks of ice have started breaking off from the icebergs which are difficult to pick up on radars. No polar bears have been spotted, though.
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Icelandic composer and bassist Skúli Sverrisson, who boasts a long career abroad, and rising star Sóley, who recently released her critically-acclaimed debut We Sink, will perform at the annual film concert of the Reykjavík International Film Festival (RIFF) in the church Fríkirkjan by the Reykjavík Pond tonight.
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The current issue of the quarterly magazine Iceland Review—out now—includes extensive coverage of the recent volcanic eruption in Grímsvötn, the Icelandic horse, book lovers, the EU membership talks and more. If you subscribe now, you will receive a photo book by IR editor/photographer Páll Stefánsson of the eruptions in Eyjafjallajökull as a gift. Also, all subscribers are part of a draw to win a trip to Iceland. Click here to subscribe to the magazine.
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REVIEWS
The Living Art Museum hosts the annual "Grassroots IX" exhibition, showcasing the works of young Icelandic artists. This year, the eight participants examine the structures of society, demonstrate environmental awareness, contemplate on the freedom and limitations of today's financial and existential crisis, and are unafraid to play with spacial perceptions and new technology.
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To say that Kristín Gunnlaugsdóttir’s latest artwork is striking would be an understatement. Her raw, sexually charged images of naked women, sewn with yarn on fencing canvas, are a shocking departure from her dreamlike, detailed paintings inspired by the iconography tradition. She told Ásta Andrésdóttir the reasons for the drastic change.
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In the exhibition “Tiger Butter” at Reykjavík Art Museum – Hafnarhús, Ósk Vilhjálmsdóttir criticizes both the society’s generally accepted values and the demand for a steady stream of progress. She exposes the tension and anger that has been seething in Icelandic society since the collapse in 2008. The scenario is a ship at an unspecified location and we are all its passengers.
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