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Happy birthday, Iceland! Posted by hulda on Jun 18, 2013
Yesterday on the 17th Iceland celebrated its independence in the usual way: lots of noise, live music everywhere, street art, candy, flags in every form and shape and material, children running around and climbing on absolutely anything and everything they can hold on to, fierce chess matches in the rain, parades, circus shows, the selection…
Loki’s children. Posted by hulda on Feb 20, 2013
“You can choose any text you like, except for poems or song lyrics.” The first translation course that the University of Iceland offers is typically on the first semester of the third year. It takes two years of studying Icelandic before we have gathered enough vocabulary and knowledge on Iceland and its culture to be…
Menningarnótt: music, art and beer. Posted by hulda on Aug 19, 2012
Hulda reporting again from one of the many summer festivals in Iceland, the Menningarnótt (= Culture night). Despite the name it’s actually a whole day celebration starting out at 8 a.m. and continuing through the day and well into the night. Besides that I’m happy to announce that this is exactly the hundredth post published…
Happy Birthday, Iceland! Posted by hulda on Jun 17, 2012
“Hæ, hó, jibbí, jei og jibbí, jei – Það er kominn 17. júní!” In other words, happy Independence Day Iceland and Icelanders! Today’s a big fest downtown that began in the morning and will go on until at least seven p.m. We have been lucky with the weather today, it’s been sunny and warm with…
Street art Posted by sequoia on Oct 21, 2011
Here’s some more street art: (EDIT 15/04/2012: I’ve removed two of the images that were originally in this post) For a while there were big mounds of grass around the immediate downtown area, I have no idea why and I lost my other photos of them. Then white silhouettes appeared on some of…
Graffiti in Iceland Posted by sequoia on Sep 5, 2011
I’m sorry this post is so late, I was having logging-in troubles and I still don’t know what exactly was wrong or how it got fixed. Sometimes what looks like graffiti was actually art commissioned by the business that owns the wall it was painted on. “Wow, what a cool showing is this” (or something…
Knitting in Iceland Posted by sequoia on Aug 14, 2011
If you have any questions or want to see me take photos of/write a post on something, comment and let me know! Wool, fish, and aluminum are Iceland’s biggest exports. Until recently it was only the first two that were available. Icelandic wool is “single ply” which means it is made in one strand, although…