Iceland Traditions
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Q can someone tell me about the tradition of last names in Iceland?
A Icelandic names differ from most Western family name systems by being patronymic (and sometimes matronymic) in that they reflect the immediate father (or mother) of the child and not the historic family lineage.
Iceland shares a common cultural heritage with the Scandinavian countries of Norway, Sweden and Denmark with its crown dependency the Faroe Islands. Icelanders, however, unlike other Scandinavians, have continued to use their traditional name system, which was formerly used in all of Scandinavia; it has also been re-introduced in the Faroe Islands. A well-known example is Leif Ericson, son of Erik the Red. The Icelandic system does not use family names. A person’s surname indicates the first name of the person’s father (patronymic) or in some cases mother (matronymic).
Some family names exist in Iceland, mostly inherited from parents of foreign origin, while some are adopted. Examples of notable Icelanders who have an inherited family name are former prime minister Geir Haarde, football star Eiður Smári Guðjohnsen, Icelandic actress Kristbjörg Kjelld, actor Magnús Scheving and film director Baltasar Kormákur Samper. Before 1925, it was legal to adopt new family names; one Icelander to do so was the Nobel Prize-winning author Halldór Laxness. Since 1925, one cannot adopt a family name unless one explicitly has a legal right to do so through inheritance.[1]
First names that have not been previously used in Iceland must be approved by the Icelandic Naming Committee (Icelandic: Mannanafnanefnd) before being used.[2] The criterion for acceptance of names is whether or not they can be easily incorporated into the Icelandic language. First, they must contain only letters found in the Icelandic alphabet and second, they must be able to be declined (that is, modified according to their grammatical case).
For example, a man named Jón Stefánsson has a son named Fjalar. Fjalar’s last name will not be Stefánsson like his father’s; it will become Jónsson, literally indicating that Fjalar is the son of Jón (Jóns + son).
The same practice is used for daughters. Jón Stefánsson’s daughter Katrín would not have the last name Stefánsson; she would have the name Jónsdóttir. Again, the name literally meaning “Jón’s daughter” (Jóns + dóttir).
In some cases, an individual’s surname is derived from a parent’s middle name instead of the first name. For example, if Jón is the son of Hjálmar Arnar Vilhjálmsson he may either be named Jón Hjálmarsson (Jón, son of Hjálmar) or Jón Arnarsson (Jón, son of Arnar). The reason for this may be that the parent prefers to be called by the middle name instead of the first name; this is fairly common. It may also be that the parent’s middle name seems to fit the child’s first name better.
In cases where two people in the same social circle bear the same first name and the same father’s name, they may be socially distinguished by their paternal grandfather’s name, e.g. Jón Þórsson Bjarnarsonar (Jón, son of Þór, son of Bjarni) and Jón Þórsson Hallssonar (Jón, son of Þór, son of Hallur). Although this method is uncommon (as middle names are normally used), such tracing of lineages can easily be seen in the Sagas.
Source(s): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icelandic_name
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The Wikipedia article from which the text above was quoted has undergone some modifications since it was given as a response to a question posed around December 16, 2010.
This will be my first post in this new version of Thai-Iceland.com that I am rebuilding entirely from scratch after feeling myself with no option but to sever ties with my former web host; for in the process of doing so, I abandoned my website’s entire database.
I typically spend several weeks working on a post, and the end result is never by any means complete, but I have to stop at some point. It is nothing for my posts to exceed 30,000 words; but I could easily double or even triple that figure. However, if I did not call a halt when I do, then a single post would take me two or three months to finish…and even then, it would not truly be complete, for there is no end to the amount of material one can find on almost any given topic.
Anyway, I am laying the foundation for this inaugural post on November 1, 2020. I am not expecting the publication date to be too much before the end of the month, but we shall see!
So let’s begin.
National costumes image adapted from Minjasafnid.is
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Tue Oct 27, 2020 ─ tor.com
Tordotcom Publishing is thrilled to announce the next novella from Sarah Tolmie, Aurora and Rhysling award-winning poet and author of The Fourth Island. All the Horses of Iceland is a compact historical saga that traces the imagined descent of the Icelandic horses along a Viking trade route, melding folkloric and magical traditions along the way. …
https://www.tor.com/2020/10/27/book-announcements-sarah-tolmie-all-the-horses-of-iceland/comment-page-1/
Looking for weird traditions? Try spending a year in Iceland!
Back to Blog. The population of Iceland may be just shy of 350,000 people, but that hasn’t stopped the humble nation from developing a rich and diverse cultural heritage that inspires travellers from across the globe.
Each year, Icelanders are involved in numerous celebrations and traditions which make this captivating country even more special. …
https://www.islandshotel.is/blog/10-of-the-most-unusual-icelandic-traditions
October 23, 2020 ─ Louder
Icelandic post-rockers Sigur Rós will release orchestra album Odin’s Raven Magic in December
Icelandic post-rockers Sigur Rós have streamed their brand new single Dvergmál . … The work, which draws from the band’s deep roots in both orchestral and choral traditions, will be released on Krunk, via Warner Classics, on December 4. …
https://www.loudersound.com/news/sigur-ros-stream-brand-new-single-dvergmal
15 Dec 2014 … What are your holiday traditions? I just read about an awesome ritual that I’d love to adopt…
In Iceland, books are exchanged on Christmas Eve, and you spend the rest of the night reading. People generally take their books to bed along with some chocolate. How cozy and wonderful does that sound?
(More fun facts: Iceland publishes more books per capita than any other country, and new books are typically published only during the Christmas season—the frenzy is called Jólabókaflóð, or the Christmas Book Flood.) …
https://joannagoddard.blogspot.com/2014/12/what-are-your-holiday-traditions.html
Iceland‘s East Fjords are one of the country’s most little-known and spectacular areas. Discover the magic of the region here.
Furthermore, it’s rural culture is fascinating and there are a wealth of places where you can witness how historical traditions and folklore continue to play a role in daily life. …
https://guidetoiceland.is/nature-info/the-ultimate-guide-to-iceland-s-east-fjords
Icelanders have several unique holidays and celebrate the more common ones in special ways. Many of the festivities are related to ancient Norse traditions, while others tie in to the Christian calendar, even though nowadays most Icelanders celebrate these events in a secular way. In addition to the traditional holidays listed here, numerous festivals take place throughout the year.
Twelfth Night
6 January is celebrated as the last day of Christmas. The occasion is marked by various fireworks displays and bonfires. …
https://www.iceland.is/the-big-picture/people-society/traditions
October 28, 2020 ─ News Now Finland
Finns won for literature and music in the annual awards, which was held virtually on Tuesday night due to coronavirus restrictions.
This year’s awards were due to have been presented in Iceland but because of the coronavirus situation the event was moved online instead. …
The judges said Lucander’s work evoked the traditions of Finnish-Swedish artist and author Tove Jansson “but with a completely new expression full of original perspectives, line drawings, colour choices, and character design.” …
https://newsnowfinland.fi/finland-international/finnish-artists-scoop-three-nordic-council-prizes
9 Dec 2016 … CC BY 2.0 Steve Bissonette Book lovers will want to adopt this lovely holiday tradition, which melds literary and holiday pleasures into a single event.
Icelanders have a beautiful tradition of giving books to each other on Christmas Eve and then spending the night reading. This custom is so deeply ingrained in the culture that it is the reason for the Jolabokaflod, or “Christmas Book Flood,” when the majority of books in Iceland are sold between September and December in preparation for Christmas giving. …
https://lisaandherworld-lisah.blogspot.com/2016/12/the-beautiful-icelandic-tradition-of.html
Wednesday, Jul 29, 2020 ─ CHVN Radio
A town with one of the largest populations of Icelanders in the world is sharing its culture virtually this summer.
Gimli’s annual Icelandic Festival of Manitoba regularly sees tens of thousands of people participate in person during its festivities.
“The whole idea of being together with your family, celebrating your roots, celebrating your heritage is a really nice feeling,” Jenna Baholij, President and Marketing Chair of Icelandic Festival of Manitobal says. …
Boholij says residents still follow many of the traditions that were brought from Iceland, including closing shops to enjoy a coffee break with friends. …
https://chvnradio.com/articles/gimlis-icelandic-festival-reaching-across-the-globe
Amazon U.S. • Cultural Traditions in Iceland (Cultural Traditions in My World)
Iceland is a country full of unique traditions–some stemming from its Norse heritage and others from religious observances. Readers will learn about the interesting cultural traditions of Iceland, from distinctive food festivals to family traditions, as well as holidays connected to traditional myths and stories. Topics also include Icelandic celebrations of familiar holidays such as Easter and Christmas.
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- 100 и более фактов об Исландии [100 and more facts about Iceland ─Google Translate]
May 26th, 2013 ─ Turbo
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1. Исландия одна из самых малонаселенных стран в мире, тут проживает около 320 тысяч тысяч человек, а до второй мировой войны население страны составляло всего 50 тысяч. …
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1. Iceland is one of the least populous countries in the world, there live about 320 thousand people, and before World War II the country’s population was only 50 thousand. … ─Google Translate
https://masterok.livejournal.com/1002646.html
30 October 2020 ─ British Vogue
Vogue rounds up the best cookbooks of all time, from Nigella Lawson’s ‘How to Eat’ to Julia Child’s ‘Mastering the Art of French Cooking’ and Samin Nosrat’s ‘Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat’. …
And for those who are already familiar with the Italian and French traditions? …
A former pastry chef at St Johns, the frozen treat evangelist has travelled everywhere from Iceland to Brazil to study ice cream making – and while some of her flavour combinations are more unusual than your average Madagascan vanilla, just put yourself in her expert hands and follow each recipe precisely. …
https://www.vogue.co.uk/arts-and-lifestyle/article/best-cookbooks
30 Dec 2019 … Discover some of Iceland´s unique traditions, including why they have 13 Santa Clauses while the rest of the world has only one.
Icelandic culture is packed with fascinating traditions. …
From Sheep Round-Up to Rotten Skate: A Guide to Icelandic Traditions · Þorrablót (Thorri feast) · Sólarkaffi (sun coffee) · Bolludagur (cream bun day) …
https://theculturetrip.com/europe/iceland/articles/7-traditions-unique-to-iceland/
October 29, 2020 ─ Aerospace Journal
The busy lifestyle of the occupied population and change in eating traditions of a consumer has enlarged the demand for instant and convenient food products, which is foreseen to drive the growth in the frozen pizza market. … Ajinomoto Co. Inc., Kraft Foods Group and Unilever PLC, McCain Foods, Iceland Foods Ltd, …
https://aerospace-journal.com/coronavirus/347066/frozen-pizza-market-industry-outlook-growth-prospects-and-key-opportunities/
9 Dec 2018 … Iceland is a ‘hot’ spot for tourists, but did you know about Jolabokaflod or The Christmas Book Flood. Read on. Add this to your knowledge of Scandinavian book traidtions, Easter Norwegian reading tradition – Paskekrim. But this one in Iceland involves chocolate! …
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https://mysteryreadersinc.blogspot.com/2018/12/iceland-holiday-book-tradition.html
Mar 10, 2020 ─ IcelandReview
The term ‘Icelandic sweater’ (Icelandic: íslensk lopapeysa) is now a legally protected product name, having received a Designation of Origin status today from the Icelandic Food and Veterinary Authority. The Icelandic hand-knitted wool sweater is a traditional Icelandic garment. By receiving a Designation of Origin, the sweater becomes the second product name to receive such legal protection in Icelandic, following in the wake of Icelandic lamb meat. […]
The application stated that the sweaters are an original design unique to Iceland, which has origins in Icelandic knitting- and pattern traditions from the middle of the 20th century. …
https://www.icelandreview.com/business/hand-knitted-icelandic-sweater-receives-protected-status/
27 Apr 2019 … Ties to old traditions and superstitions are strong in Iceland even some that seem normal in Iceland that might look strange to an outsider.
Icelandic Traditions, Customs & Habits That You Might Find Strange · Thorrablot – the festival of ram testicles, shark & hard liquor · The Icelandic Over the Top 3-Day Food Fest · Sheep Roundups · The Icelandic Naming System …
https://www.icelandtravel.is/blog/how-do-you-like-iceland-icelandic-traditions-customs-and-habits/
Dec 6, 2019 ─ Reykjavík Grapevine
How was Yule celebrated? We asked Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson, the head chieftain of the Ásatrú Society how the pagans celebrated the holidays. …
Christmas lights and traditions bring much-needed warmth to the cold Icelandic winters. But before Christianity arrived in the country, Icelanders were pagan. We asked Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson, the head chieftain of the Ásatrú Society—a pagan religious group that honours the Old Norse pantheon—how the pagans celebrated the holidays.
https://grapevine.is/news/2019/12/06/ask-a-pagan-chieftain-how-was-winter-celebrated-before-christian-traditions/
9 Dec 2015 … Each year at this time, Iceland celebrates the winter season with an unusual and most excellent literary tradition, Jolabokaflod (which translates as the “Christmas Book Flood”.) In Iceland, the very best Christmas gift to give and receive is a book. This has been the most sought after present for decades.
Kristjan B. Jonasson, president of the Iceland Publishers Association explains;
“The culture of giving books as presents is very deeply rooted in how families perceive Christmas as a holiday.” …
https://fallenstarstories.blogspot.com/2015/12/jolabokaflodthe-icelandic-tradition.html
23 October 2020 ─ Daily Maverick
Jodetert is neither a tart nor made by Jews but it is layered – like life. …
Letting it stand overnight in the fridge for a day to let the cookie layers soften is a method not typical of our cake baking traditions. …
Canadian food writer Kristin Olafson Jekyns’s book The Culinary Saga of New Iceland: Recipes from the Shores of Lake Winnipeg documents the history and culinary traditions of immigrants from Iceland who settled in North America at the end of the 19th century. …
https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2020-10-23-putting-the-jew-back-into-jodetert/
Iceland Culture image from http://worldculturepeople.blogspot.com
3 Aug 2020 – Maria Does Things
The Book Flood
I learned about this tradition one year when I was researching Icelandic Christmas traditions. Books and reading are a large part of the Icelandic culture. Leading up to Christmas many books are published and books sales increase drastically. Every Christmas Eve, Icelanders must receive a new books and chocolates to take to bed with them. … https://www.npr.org/2012/12/25/167537939/literary-iceland-revels-in-its-annual-christmas-book-flood#:~:text=But in Iceland, …
https://mariadoesthings.com/2020/08/02/3-fun-facts-about-iceland/
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May 21, 2020 ─ The Dallas Morning News
‘The Museum of Whales You Will Never See’ is an engaging travelogue.
Dallas author’s book chronicles Iceland‘s modern tradition of small, oddly specific museums. ‘The Museum of Whales You Will Never See’ is an …
If you don’t have a subscription to this news site allowing you access to the article, then you are going to find yourself paywalled. ─Garnet Barcelo
https://www.dallasnews.com/arts-entertainment/books/2020/05/21/dallas-authors-book-chronicles-icelands-modern-tradition-of-small-oddly-specific-museums/
Iceland‘s holiday traditions celebrate religious holidays, food and drink, and the country’s independence day.
Fasching, or Carnival, and Kinderzeche, or the Children’s Party, mark historical events with traditional costumes, revelry and parades. Whether you want to attend …
Unable to find any trace of “Fasching” at the given web page, I researched further and found that the actual article dealing with that specific festival relates to an entirely different article and web page titled Traditional Festivals in Germany in 2018 located elsewhere at the same website. ─Garnet H.G. Barcelo
https://traveltips.usatoday.com/holiday-traditions-iceland-16065.html
28/10/2020 ─ HuffPost UK
… footprint without scaling back on our favourite traditions. … of Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Marks and Spencer, and Iceland are all putting out their …
Don’t bother trying to access this article if you’re not prepared to accept Verizon Media’s demand that you first accept their cookies. What was doubly irritating to me is that the webpage URL had changed to https://consent.yahoo.com. Nevertheless, I did access the article by utilizing Google’s temporary cache of it that can be found (for a limited time) here. The article had nothing to do with Iceland the country, incidentally. ─Garnet H.G. Barcelo
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/eco-christmas-in-a-covid-year_uk_5f86c499c5b6c4bb5471700d
19 Dec 2019 … Iceland is a ‘hot’ spot for tourists, but did you know about Jolabokaflod or The Christmas Book Flood . Read on. Add this to your knowledge of Scandinavian book traditions, Easter Norwegian reading tradition – Paskekrim. But this one in Iceland also involves chocolate! …
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https://mysteryreadersinc.blogspot.com/2019/12/the-christmas-book-flood-iceland.html
Dec 24, 2019 ─ Metro
The Icelandic trend of giving and reading books on Christmas Eve is exactly what our modern times need. …
Whether it’s family members opening their gifts in size order, a clementine in a stocking, or an annual watching of The Muppets Christmas Carol, we all have our festive traditions that are an absolute must-do.
But this year we invite you to start a new one, borrowed from the people of Iceland.
https://metro.co.uk/2019/12/24/jolabokaflod-icelandic-christmas-eve-tradition-11955362/
Iceland is rich with vibrant culture and a love of folklore. Learn everything you need to know about the unique traditions of Iceland in our travel guide.
A land of otherworldly landscapes and shimmering northern lights, Iceland’s natural wonders are well established among adventure travellers but there is more to Iceland that what nature has bequeathed. The country’s ancient heritage and quirky folklore blends with a modern culture of food, craft beer, and a love and respect for the outdoors.
https://www.discover-the-world.com/destinations/iceland-holidays/your-guide-to-icelands-culture-and-traditions/
Aug 5, 2020 ─ Jewish Telegraphic Agency
These popular, Nordic butter cookies are so easy to make, too.
Her book documents the history and culinary traditions of immigrants from Iceland who settled in North America at the end of the 19th century.
https://www.jta.org/2020/08/05/food/icelandic-jewish-cookies-a-dessert-with-a-fascinating-story-to-tell
27 Oct 2010 … Check out the awesome back-story on Skyr , the ingredient that rocked today’s recipe…
After spending several days combing the web for Icelandic recipes with no inspiration, I randomly picked up the November issue of Food and Wine magazine while sitting in the dentist’s office. …
https://whatscookinginyourworld.blogspot.com/2010/10/day-73-icelanda-new-twist-on-tradition.html
September 23, 2020 ─ Bloomberg
The ironclad homes of Iceland‘s capital city may be unorthodox, but the innovative buildings have kept residents warm and dry for more than century.
Many earlier houses are plain, but later examples show trappings of the more elaborate “Swiss style” popular across Scandinavia around 1900 — essentially a lavish chalet-esque makeover of existing traditions that might feature hand-carved wooden trimmings, or a more self-consciously romantic roofline. …
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-23/the-history-of-reykjavik-s-iron-and-wood-homes
In this volume Chris Callow provides a critical reading of the evidence for changes in Icelands socio-political structures from its colonisation to the 1260s when leading Icelanders swore oaths of loyalty to the Norwegian king.
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Понедельник, 10 Февраля 2020 [Monday, February 10, 2020]
The Jaw harp (also referred to as a Jew’s Harp) isn’t a harp and has no historic association with Jewish traditions. Iceland remained remote and maintained the language of the Vikings almost unchanged up to the current day, though there isn’t a solid evidence of any unbroken musical traditions.
https://www.liveinternet.ru/users/madsen_roberson/
Find out what National Holidays are celebrated in Iceland. Read our complete guide to holidays and traditions celebrated here. Find out more.
Read on for a complete guide to Icelandic holidays and the traditions surrounding them.
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https://guidetoiceland.is/history-culture/icelandic-traditions-holidays-dates
31 Jan 2020 … If you follow any travel accounts on social media, chances are that your feed has been flooded by beautiful shots of Iceland’s pristine landscapes. From snow-capped mountains to sprawling glaciers, Iceland has drawn in millions of travelers who hope to see and experience its rugged and wild landscapes.
In fact, Icelanders are a fascinating people, with an interesting history and rich cultural traditions! Let’s dive in and discover 9 of the most intriguing and interesting Icelandic traditions (which we bet you didn’t know about!). …
https://www.acanela.com/blog/9-intriguing-icelandic-traditions
Dec 20, 2018 ─ HowStuffWorks
HowStuffWorks learns about the Icelandic tradition of jólabókaflóð or the Christmas Book Flood. Iceland is the most book-loving country in the world. … On Christmas Eve, Icelandic families traditionally settle down to a cozy night of exchanging gifts of books and reading. It’s all part of jólabókaflóð or the Christmas Book Flood.
When families in Iceland gather on a crisp Christmas Eve, there are several important traditions to observe. First comes a hearty Christmas meal (smoked lamb, fermented and pickled fish, all washed down with a questionable cocktail of malt beer and orange soda), followed by Christmas mass at 6 p.m. sharp and then, of course, the books. …
https://people.howstuffworks.com/culture-traditions/holidays-christmas/cozy-icelandic-christmas-tradition-youll-want-to-steal.htm
13 Dec 2011 … Postcards & stamps. Places that you haven’t ever seen, or that you’d like to see them again. World comes to your home, beautiful and surprising.
After two postcards with more or less active volcanoes, behold I received from Iceland a totally different picture, more earthly and more friendly (thanks a lot, Sigga). On the back writes this: “The turf church at Árbær farm dates from 1842. …” …
https://worldcometomyhome.blogspot.com/2011/12/0070-iceland-turf-church-at-arbr-farm.html
Aug 28, 2020 ─ IcelandReview
The committee overseeing the sheep roundup in the West Iceland municipality of Borgarbyggð has applied for an exemption to the gathering ban rule for this year’s réttir, RÚV reports. The committee is requesting that 150 be allowed to participate in each farm’s roundup. Under current gathering restrictions, no more than 100 people would be permitted to take part. […]
The COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting safety measures have had no less an effect on the sheep roundup this year than it has on all other annual traditions and festivities. …
https://www.icelandreview.com/society/gathering-ban-exemption-requested-for-annual-sheep-roundup/
Traditions, new and old, are what makes holidays so special. Eating a chocolate Easter egg at Easter, or blowing out the candles on your birthday are the things that take a celebration from nice to festive. Christmas, being the most important holiday of them all in Iceland, is so laden with traditions, it takes us more than a month to cover them all.
Aðventa
The Advent begins on the fourth Sunday before Christmas and marks the official start of the Christmas season! …
https://www.whatson.is/icelandic-christmas-traditions/
Jan 24, 2019 ─ Iceland Magazine
With the introduction of Christianity in Iceland in the year 1000, old heathen feasts and celebrations were replaced, or intertwined, with Christian ones. However, many of these old customs were revived during Iceland’s struggle for independence from Denmark in the 19th century. Now, Icelanders celebrate both the old and the new – and so can you. Here’s an introduction to some of Iceland’s many winter feasts.
The tradition was lost soon after Icelanders converted to Christianity.
During Iceland‘s struggle for independence from Denmark in the 19th century, young Icelanders studying in Copenhagen decided to revive the old custom of Þorrablót. …
https://icelandmag.is/article/heres-your-introduction-old-icelandic-winter-traditions
10 Dec 2014 … Christmas is a time of respectful worship of the birth of Christ. And presents.
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But not everyone enjoys Christmas as we in America do. …
Every Christmas, Grýla and her sons come down from the mountains: Grýla in search of naughty children to boil in her cauldron and the boys in search of mischief. …
https://scooterm.blogspot.com/2014/12/christmas-traditions-in-iceland-welcome.html
Mar 2, 2020 ─ Daily Hive
Quaint and cultured, Iceland‘s capital is the embodiment of the competing narratives of the small country, as tourism is changing its image at home.
No point in Iceland‘s capital city of Reykjavik is higher than the pointed steeple of Hallgrimskirkja Church. …
Iceland is steeped in its history, deeply revealing the traditions and remnants of its past. …
https://dailyhive.com/mapped/reykjavik-iceland-tourism-travel-flyover
Yule Lads in Dimmuborgir image from http://blog.grubmarket.com
6 Dec 2019 * The Travel Bug Bite
People in Iceland celebrate the holidays by gifting and reading books for Christmas! It is a long tradition that keeps the magic of reading alive. …
They teleport you to worlds that do exist and those that don’t. Nothing is impossible in a book. People in Iceland understand the magic of reading and the holidays. So they combine the two by gifting and reading books for Christmas!
“93% of Icelanders read at least one book a year compared to 73% of Americans, so it comes as no surprise that Iceland ranks as the third most literate country in the world (Finland and Norway take the top two spots, according to this study).”…
Read it Forward
Follow TheTravelBugBite for more Christmas traditions from all over the world!
Reading Books for Christmas! …
http://thetravelbugbite.com/2019/12/06/reading-books-for-christmas/
Jun 3, 2019 ─ BBC News
The Ásatrú faith, one of Iceland‘s fastest growing religions, combines Norse mythology with ecological awareness – and it’s open to all.
The blót had been organised by the Ásatrú Association of Iceland, a pagan faith group that is currently one of the country’s fastest growing religions, having almost quadrupled its membership in a decade, albeit from a low base of 1,275 people in 2009 to 4,473 in 2018.
http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20190602-how-iceland-recreated-a-viking-age-religion
Icelanders are proud of their Viking heritage and Icelandic language and take great care to preserve their traditions. Modern Icelandic remains close to the Old Norse spoken in the Viking Age. Until the Christianization of Iceland, many traditional Viking beliefs were strongly held, remnants of which remain today. According to a 2005 New York Times article, the majority of Icelanders either believe in elves or are unwilling to rule out their existence. There are a number of accounts of roads that have been re-routed and building plans redesigned or abandoned to avoid disturbing rocks where elves are said to live. …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_of_Iceland
October 28, 2020 ─ Pledge Times
The awards ceremony planned for Iceland was canceled due to the corona. …
According to PN’s award justification, the concert “uniquely combines natural musicality, impressive craftsmanship and a tireless exploration of the traditions of classical music”.
That article seems to have been removed, so the link is no longer valid. NewsNowFinland.fi announces a similar result in an article published on the same day: Finnish artists scoop three Nordic Council prizes. ─Garnet H.G. Barcelo
https://pledgetimes.com/awards-finnish-artists-won-the-jackpot-up-to-three-prizes-out-of-five-to-finland-from-the-nordic-council/
18 Feb 2020 … One little Seattle family’s adventures in parenting, traveling, hiking, gardening, beekeeping and chicken herding.
Today, the tradition continues. Iceland has an unusually high literacy rate and a healthy publishing industry: each year a free catalog is distributed to all home with a list of every published book. …
https://chrisandsonja.blogspot.com/
Nov 25, 2019 ─ Reykjavík Grapevine
This year Icelanders saw a record number of books being published. From poetry to fiction to children’s books, it was an overall great year for the written word, RÚV reports. …
In one of Iceland‘s traditions, Jólabókaflóð, or the “Christmas book flood”, families gather around on Christmas Eve to be gifted new books. If you want to bring this tradition to your home, check out our list for last year’s best English-translated Icelandic literature. …
https://grapevine.is/news/2019/11/25/nerd-alert-2019-was-the-year-for-icelandic-books/
Find out what National Holidays are celebrated in Iceland. Read our complete guide to holidays and traditions celebrated here. Find out more.
Read on for a complete guide to Icelandic holidays and the traditions surrounding them.
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https://guidetoiceland.is/history-culture/icelandic-traditions-holidays-dates
Oct. 28, 2020 ─ New York Magazine
The best gifts for retirees, including The New Yorker Print Magazine, 1-Year Subscription, The Economist Subscription, On Bullshit by Harry G. Frankfurt, Apple iPad Air, Cuddl Duds Fleecewear Stretch Lounge Pants and Kamaka HF-2L Concert Long Neck. … Including cooking classes, wine clubs, and erotic literature. …
Bioeffect’s star ingredient is barley, which is grown in a geothermal greenhouse in Iceland. …
These are led by female immigrants, most of them 50 or older, with a deep knowledge of their culture’s unique food traditions.
https://nymag.com/strategist/article/best-retirement-gifts.html
6 Apr 2012 … Helene knitting on the top of the new mountain Magni born from the eruption of Eyjafjallajokull (you can’t sit too long, it’s still hot!)…
As a matter of fact, many Icelanders think I’m half Icelandic with French origins! My focus on Icelandic knitting traditions is both a genuine interest I have in knitting, the history of knitting in general and everything Icelandic in particular, and it has quite spontaneously become my specialty. …
https://knittingrobin.blogspot.com/2012/04/interview-withhelene-magnusson.html
Dec 20, 2019 ─ CTV News
From hiding brooms to parading around with a mare’s skull, CTVNews.ca takes a look at Christmas practices that many Canadians may find odd, unusual or downright creepy.
Iceland‘s Yule Cat … Caga Tio, or “defecating log,” is a tradition from the Catalan region of Spain, where families create a character out of log, which then sits on the dining room table. … Iceland‘s Gryla and the 13 Yule Lads.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/lifestyle/scary-christmas-a-look-at-the-world-s-most-unusual-creepy-and-odd-holiday-traditions-1.4726583
- Коренные малочисленные народы Таймыра, их традиции [The indigenous peoples of Taimyr, their traditions ─Google Translate]
Saturday, September 13, 2014
http://old.taimyr24.ru/about/index.php?SECTION_ID=122ELEMENT_ID=649
Начало присоединения Сибири к России относится к концу XVI века. В XVI веке Сибирь как новый край Русского государства управлялась Посольским приказом, а с 1599 г. – приказом Казанского дворца, в ведении которого к началу XVII в. …
The beginning of Siberia’s accession to Russia dates back to the end of the 16th century. In the 16th century, Siberia as a new region of the Russian state was governed by the Ambassadorial Order, and from 1599 by the order of the Kazan Palace, which was in charge of the beginning of the 17th century. …─Google Translate
https://alicefaway.livejournal.com/57584.html
Dec 30, 2019 ─ IcelandReview
Icelandic New Year’s Eve parties are notorious for their ill-advised combination of copious quantities of alcohol and ample access to explosives. Yet amidst the pollution and chaos of the night, every party has a distinct, hour-long lull. The reason is the TV comedy special Áramótaskaupið, which has satirised the top news stories of the year with skits and songs since its debut on radio in the 1940s.
Iceland‘s New Year’s Eve Comedy Tradition. Words by Kolbeinn Dalrymple … It is no exaggeration to say that Áramótaskaupið is an indispensable national tradition. According to Gallup, about 75% of the population watched the show as it aired last year with 98% of TV sets that were on at the time tuned to the national broadcaster RÚV. …
https://www.icelandreview.com/magazine/laugh-out-the-old-aramotaskaup/
9 Dec 2019 … Christmas traditions in Iceland are an inseparable part of Icelandic history. Learn what Christmas traditions Icelanders cannot miss and how the Christmas traditions spirit is spread all around!
Puffins are an integral part of Icelandic summer. Do you know these cute little sea birds? If you never saw Puffins, our blog Puffins in Iceland is right for you! …
https://grayline.is/blog/christmas-traditions-in-iceland
Mar 25, 2020 ─ IcelandReview
1989. The Berlin Wall comes down. Seinfeld starts its run. Minesweeper is released. Coming to America is one of the most popular movies. And on March 1, Iceland lifts its ban on beer.
It wasn’t until 2006 that the first Icelandic microbrewery opened. … After spending the better part of the century without beer, Iceland‘s brewers had a unique opportunity – to mould a brewing tradition from scratch.
https://www.icelandreview.com/society/oh-hoppy-day/
11 Mar 2015 … comenius Ecole Saint Gilles Hennebont, Falkenhausenschule Kehl Şcoala Bucureşti, SCEIP Picacho Cádiz SWIERADOW GARDASEL Akranes, Limassol
Before, Easter had a big religion meaning and a lot of traditions. Grandparents guarded the celebrations with a hawk-eyes and maked sure that everybody behaved in a proper way, especially the kids. …
https://comenius2015.blogspot.com/2015/03/easter-in-iceland_11.html
Dec 20, 2019 ─ ChristianityToday.com
The bizarre myths of “Jól” fail to offer the hope and joy of the true Christmas story.
As a tradition, Icelandic children place their shoes in their window sills for the 13 days leading up to Christmas for the Yule lads to leave either a small treat in the shoes for good behavior or a potato for bad. …
https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2019/december-web-only/iceland-christmas-myths-jol-christian-story.html
18 Jun 2014 … The quirks and traditions of weddings are charming and unique in every region of the world. Even among the states, a California wedding is much different than a Virginian one. Steeped in traditions reaching back through history, weddings today are influenced by the lifestyles and beliefs from centuries past.
Iceland, the North Atlantic island surrounded by towering glaciers and home to many volcanoes, is not exempt from the past’s effect on national wedding traditions. …
https://invitationsbyajalon.com/blog/a-wedding-in-iceland/
Updated 18 Sep 2020 ─ Business Live
Icelandic seafood marketing campaign is making waves and the UK’s seafood capital is keen to capitalise
A spokesperson said: “In Iceland this Fishmas tradition comes but twice a week where Icelandic friends and families dine on some of the world’s finest seafood. …” …
https://www.business-live.co.uk/retail-consumer/grimsby-wishing-could-fishmas-every-18947038
22 Nov 2012 … The Jólakötturinn or Christmas Cat, from Iceland, is an evil black cat that lives in the mountains with the mother of trolls, Grýla, and the father of trolls, Leppalúði.
The ginormous cat’s sole purpose in life is to eat children (and adults, some say) that do not get a new piece of clothing before Christmas.
To encourage children to work hard, their parents told the tale of the Yule Cat, saying that Jólakötturinn could tell who the lazy children were because they did not have at least one new item of clothing for Christmas, and they would be sacrificed to the Yule Cat. …
https://isitweird.blogspot.com/2012/11/worlds-weirdest-christmas-traditions.html
Jun 25, 2020 ─ Universe.byu.edu
Every Thursday the Daily Universe compiles positive, uplifting stories. This weeks stories include the continuation of certain baseball traditions and a student who ran a half-marathon on campus.
Bjarki Robertsson, an 11-year-old from Iceland, participated in a virtual basketball camp put on by the Golden State Warriors in Oakland, California. …
https://universe.byu.edu/2020/06/25/good-news-thursday-baseball-tournament-traditions-continue-virtual-camp-allows-for-global-participation/
Image from Árborg Is a Worth the Visit: https://icelandictimes.com
4 Dec 2019 – Bromide Books
Discover a nice tradition from Iceland that will make you curl up in a cosy blanket this winter. …
In the native country of Björk, of beautiful volcanic landscapes and auroras borealis –Iceland– takes place a nice tradition celebrated every year.
Jolabokaflod, “Yule Book Flood”, arrives with the winter holidays and is preceded by the arrival of BOKATIDINDI, the official catalog of all the new books published in Iceland, because, eat that!, the Iceland Publishers Association distributes a free catalogue of books to every Icelandic home every year. …
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https://bromidebooks.com/2019/12/04/jolabokaflod/
Feb 26, 2020 ─ Reykjavík Grapevine
Today is Ash Wednesday to the Catholic world at large. In Iceland, this day is Öskudagur, and has little to do with fasting or religion anymore. …
The roots of Öskudagur are decidedly Christian, although the traditions around this day have taken different twists and turns over the generations. …
https://grapevine.is/news/2020/02/26/oskudagur-is-today-heres-everything-you-should-know/
17 Jul 2018 … From 13 Santa Clauses to a day for only eating pastries, Iceland has a rich and fascinating culture. Here is a list of interesting aspects of Iceland!
Iceland‘s Culture, Traditions, and Customs
Summarizing an entire’s country’s identity in one blog post is nearly impossible to do. The cultural aspects, traditions, and customs laid out above are a small-scale representation of what makes Iceland, well, Iceland. …
https://www.iamreykjavik.com/icelands-culture-traditions-customs
Apr 23, 2020 ─ Floornature.com
Read ARKÍS Architects was founded in Reykjavik in 199 making a name for themselves with a quality-based approach.
The perfect book for a virtual tour of Iceland, in the search for an architecture that grows from a love of Icelandic traditions and landscapes, with a contemporary twist. …
https://www.floornature.com/blog/natural-elements-arkis-architects-15426/
2 Oct 2016 … Violent tales of blood feuds, traditions, family and character. A strong literary tradition still thrives in modern Iceland. and Icelandic authors publish more books per capita than in any other country in the world. …
Friendship and other connections are very important, and many people who are referred to by kin terms are not genealogically related
https://worldculturepeople.blogspot.com/2016/10/iceland-culture.html
Dec 18, 2019 ─ The Guardian
Playful Christmas fun, or sinister, skin-crawling horror? You decide
Gryla and the Yule Cat (Iceland)
According to Icelandic Christmas folklore, this black cat belonged to the half ogre/half troll Gryla. Photograph: Akron Beacon Journal/Tribune News Service via Getty Images
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/dec/18/the-seven-most-terrifying-christmas-traditions-around-the-world
8 Dec 2017 … Learn all about Iceland‘s cultural traditions and customs during the holiday season. Share this article:
It’s all about tradition
Advent begins on the fourth Sunday before Christmas and marks the official start of the Christmas season in Iceland. …
https://icelandnaturally.com/article/icelandic-christmas-traditions/
Dec 18, 2018 ─ BBC News
According to a 2007 study by the University of Iceland, an estimated 62% of the nation believe that the existence of elves is more than a fairy tale.
Ákadóttir’s story is hardly unique. Iceland is a country riddled with stories of elves (smaller, human-like creatures with pointy ears), ‘hidden people’ (interdimensional human-like beings, called huldufólk in Icelandic) and fairies (if you’re thinking Tinkerbell, you’re not far off). …
http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20181217-the-elusive-hidden-people-of-iceland
1 Jan 2018 … Read Like Iceland!!
The article, Iceland Celebrates Christmas Unlike Any Other Country in the World by Glen Leibowitz, is about Iceland‘s tradition of giving books at Christmas. I want to wrap all Icelanders in a huge hug. Their tradition, that began as the result of import shortages during WWII, is still practiced today. In fact, Iceland resident, Christopher Norris, wants to spread their tradition to the world, “We believe that reading books is a life-enhancing activity, made even more special by the memories associated with receiving gifts of books from loved ones. …” …
https://thelitalliance.blogspot.com/2018/01/a-tradition-of-giving-books.html
Jan 10, 2020 ─ Times of India
The Christmas Book Flood hits the country right before Christmas, with book sales spiking from the month of September till the rundown to Christmas. More on Times Travel. … If a book lover could choose an ideal country to spend their lives, it would be Iceland, a nation that publishes more books per capita than any other country. As per the records, there are five books published for every 1000 readers in Iceland. Thus, there is little wonder in the fact that Iceland was hit by Jolabokaflod, or the Christmas Book Flood. Of course, nobody is complaining about being hit by the flood this time! …
In fact, a good number of Icelanders spend the Christmas eve reading.
Iceland hit by ‘Christmas Book Flood’!
With a reading culture and traditions like that, Reykjavík was named as a UNESCO City of Literature in 2011. …
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/travel/destinations/iceland-hit-by-christmas-book-flood/as73184866.cms
In this volume Chris Callow provides a critical reading of the evidence for changes in Icelands socio-political structures from its colonisation to the 1260s when leading Icelanders swore oaths of loyalty to the Norwegian king.
Chris Callow’s Landscape, Tradition and Power critically examines the evidence for socio-political developments in medieval Iceland during the so-called Commonwealth period. The book compares regions in the west and north-east of Iceland because these regions had differing human and physical geographies, and contrasting levels of surviving written evidence. Callow sets out the likely economies and institutional frameworks in which political action took place. He then examines different forms of evidence – the Contemporary sagas, Landnámabók (The Book of Settlements), and Sagas of Icelanders – considering how each describes different periods of the Commonwealth present political power. Among its conclusions the book emphasises stasis over change and the need to appreciate the nuances and purposes of Iceland’s historicising sagas.
- Вся правда о современных сванах [The whole truth about modern Svans ─Google Translate]
Thursday, January 17, 2019
Что-то я совсем переехала на фэйсбук.
Если меня еще кто-то там не нашел, ищем по имени Ksenia Svaneti Parjiani
Но не в этом дело. Сейчас я активно зазываю людей к нам в Сванетию кататься на лыжах. Много где публикую информацию, иногда даже через чур. Чувствую себя спамером. Ну да ладно. Дело опять же не в этом. …
traditions in svaneti. travel to svaneti. Trekking.
Something I completely moved to Facebook.
If someone else has not found me there, we are looking for Ksenia Svaneti Parjiani
But that’s not the point. Now I am actively encouraging people to come to us in Svaneti to ski. I publish information in many places, sometimes even too much. I feel like a spammer. Anyway. Again, this is not the point. … ─Google Translate
https://svaneti.livejournal.com/209094.html
Jul 17, 2020 ─ Ancient Origins
Iceland may have been discovered before it was settled, but Viking Hrafna-Flóki of Norse sagas and the “Vikings” TV show is seen today as the first settler. …
Iceland is a large Nordic island country, and one of the most sparsely populated nations in Europe. This remote island is known for its iconic North Atlantic climate and somewhat inhospitable nature. But it is also known for its rich history and a strong Norse and Viking heritage, which has been well preserved to the present day in the Icelandic culture, language, and traditions. And one of the most interesting aspects of the Iceland‘s history is its discovery and settlement by the Norse people, supposedly beginning with the explorations of Viking Hrafna-Flóki Vilgerðarson . …
https://www.ancient-origins.net/history-famous-people/viking-hrafna-floki-0013995
Iceland is a beautiful country with intriguing landscapes, delicious seafood, and hot springs. Learn more about Iceland culture and traditions with AFS.
Iceland offers a combination of intriguing landscapes from rugged coastlines, glaciers, and hot springs to geysers, volcanoes, and lava deserts. Eleven percent of the country is covered in glacial ice and is surrounded by water. The land is plateau with mountain peaks, and ice fields, with a coastline marked by fjords, which are deep inlets carved by glaciers. It’s no wonder that much of Iceland’s culture and traditions revolve around enjoy outdoor activities like swimming in hot springs, skiing, horseback riding, and of course–looking up to enjoy the spectacular aurora borealis—the Northern lights! …
https://www.afsusa.org/countries/iceland/
Nov 6, 2019 ─ Mental Floss
Jólabókaflóðið, Iceland‘s long-running Christmas tradition, involves books, bed, and chocolate—all our favorite things.
To take advantage of the tradition, most hardback books published in Iceland come out in the months leading up to Christmas, when Icelanders will be purchasing them for friends and family. …
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/566643/christmas-book-flood-icelands-literature-loving-holiday-tradition
22 Apr 2014 … Iceland is a country where dream fires burn among the ice, along with the geysers and volcanoes. Most Icelanders believe in dreams and follow their guidance to a degree that is remarkable among modern Western societies. …
We can track Iceland‘s dreaming traditions back through the Eddas and the sagas. In a classic study, Dreams in Old Norse Literature, G.D.Kelchner found 530 dream references in old Icelandic literature. …
https://mossdreams.blogspot.com/2014/04/iceland-is-dreamland.html
Aug 7, 2020 ─ KFTV
Nuuk-based Polarama Greenland working on ‘Kalak’, the new film from Isabella Eklöf.
Four Icelandic and Greenlandic producers have joined forces to launch a new production, co-production, production service, and casting company called Polarama Greenland. …
Not only in terms of landscapes and locations but especially Greenlandic talent – and of course the great Greenlandic storytelling traditions that we’re only just now seeing transformed to the screens.
https://www.kftv.com/news/2020/08/07/iceland-greenland-producers-join-forces-for-one-stop-shop-in-greenland
26 May 2017 … This article looks at Icelandic funeral traditions and is part of a series that highlights how different cultures care for their dead.
An Icelandic funeral usually follows Christian traditions and is held in a church.
Icelandic people don’t practice embalming, so they only do small makeup and cosmetic procedures to prepare the deceased. …
https://frazerconsultants.com/2017/05/cultural-spotlight-icelandic-funeral-traditions/
Dec 9, 2019 ─ Papermag
In contrast to blissful summer days full of psychedelics, bralettes and Tinder “festival mode,” Iceland Airwaves is held mid-fall in Reykjavík, when it’s 30 degrees by nightfall. At Airwaves, you’ll spend a lot of time peeling off sweaters as you enter crowded bars. … Iceland Airwaves turns Reykjavík’s already thriving scene into a puffer jacketed music lover’s fantasy.
Iceland Airwaves began in 1999 as a one-day party in an airplane hanger, thrown by industry folks to put global eyes on Icelandic talent. …
Thanks to Bjork, Sigur Ros, Jón Leifs and the Norse settlers who migrated to Iceland in the Middle Ages, the country is known for its black metal, neo-classical and art rock traditions — which Iceland fetishists would questionably tell you are inspired by the bleak weather and isolated landscape. …
https://www.papermag.com/iceland–airwaves-2019-2641556047.html
22 Jan 2012 … We went into Soho last night with Nathan’s friends, Thorinna and Karl; an Icelandic couple who performed in the Rocky Horror Show with Nathan many years ago. …
I was particularly thrilled to hear about Icelandic Christmas traditions, where there are actually 13 different Santa Claus figures, who separately visit children in the 13 days running up to Christmas. Children leave a shoe by the window, and every morning another little gift appears within. …
https://pepysmotet.blogspot.com/2012/01/mums-gone-to-iceland.html
Oct 26, 2020 ─ ReelChicago
The full schedule was announced for Facets 37th Annual Chicago International Children’s Film Festival (CICFF37) one of only two Academy Award-qualifying international children’s film festivals in the world.
VALHALLA (Denmark/Norway/Sweden/Iceland, 2019, ages 11+) in which two Viking children–Røskva and Tjalfe and the gods Thor and Loki–embark on a journey to save Valhalla from the end of the world; …
TOGETHER TIME (animation; ages 8-10), examining family ties, bonds, and traditions across generations; …
https://reelchicago.com/article/37th-annual-chicago-international-childrens-film-festival/
Image from https://www.jazztour.ru
9 Nov 2019 – My Visit Iceland
Iceland is known for its well-preserved culture. Its traditions has also had the same treatment. The country consists of approximately 340,000 inhabitants so it’s no surprise to see that it has crafted unique traditions that exist to this day. The following are traditions unique to Iceland:
Thorrablót and Thorramatur
During the Nordic week of Thorri beginning January up to February, locals feast on what they call Thorramatur as a tribute to the old culture. …
https://jimmyhawk35.wordpress.com/2019/11/09/traditions-that-are-unique-to-iceland/
Gasadalur waterfall in Vagar, Faroe Islands
Jan 22, 2020 ─ Luxury Travel Advisor
A bike tour across the Faroe Islands is a great way to experience the scenic splendor and unique cultural melange – if you can handle the terrain. Read more.
Rewarding, for the Iceland-meets-New Zealand scenic splendour, and the unique cultural melange: though officially part of Denmark, the Faroes has its own flag, traditions and language.
https://www.luxurytraveladvisor.com/europe/it-s-iceland-meets-new-zealand-exploring-europe-s-most-epic-archipelago
3 Feb 2020 … Every country enjoys sweet public holidays, days when nobody needs to rush to work or school. What are Icelandic only Public Holidays and traditions?
Summardagurinn Fyrsti has been a national holiday in Iceland since 1971.
Puffins are an integral part of Icelandic summer. Do you know these cute little sea birds? If you never saw Puffins, our blog Puffins in Iceland is right for you! …
https://grayline.is/blog/icelandic-public-holidays-and-traditions
Mar 2, 2020 ─ The Guardian
The health benefits of the Mediterranean diet are well known – but have you considered fangotherapy, uitwaaien and fika?
Iceland: fish. Oily fish such as capelin are key to the Icelandic diet.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2020/mar/02/from-siestas-to-saunas-the-10-european-wellbeing-traditions-everyone-should-try
In Iceland, books are exchanged as Christmas Eve presents, then you spend the rest of the night in bed reading them and eating chocolate. …
Marjorie at 13:31. Share. ‹ › Home · View web version. About Me. My photo. Marjorie: A blog with a mix of in depth share with thought provoking material to the frivolous. …
웃 웃 웃 웃 웃 웃
https://cupofteasharecare.blogspot.com/2018/12/christmas-eve-tradition-in-iceland.html
Feb 24, 2020 ─ Iceland Monitor
Today, Icelanders celebrate bolludagur, or “Bun Day.” …
The tradition of celebrating “Bun Day” just before the beginning of Lent is believed to have originated in Denmark. …
https://icelandmonitor.mbl.is/news/culture_and_living/2020/02/24/today_is_bun_day/
10 Dec 2019 … Iceland is known for having some of the most unique and cherished Christmas traditions in the world – and Icelanders are deeply committed to maintaining and celebrating them throughout the holiday season.This year, we’re bringing you an inside look into what it’s like to celebrate Christmas in Iceland. Check out this video for a glimpse at the food, traditions, drink and more that make up a truly Icelandic Christmas.
For more info on all things Iceland visit: https://icelandnaturally.com/ …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bb2tPCyZMmA
Dec 6, 2019 ─ Mental Floss
We all know about the typical American Christmas trappings—Santa, the tree, fruitcake, etc. But what about traditions elsewhere in the world that might seem a little strange?
Traditions like the Swedes watching the same Donald Duck cartoon each year, the Japanese devouring KFC, or Austria’s “bad Santa,” Krampus? … Iceland has its own frightening Christmas figure, the Yule cat, which lurks in the snow and waits to devour anyone who has not received new clothes to wear for Christmas. …
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/609619/unusual-christmas-traditions-around-world
Iceland Attractions Iceland Winter Traditions Iceland Tours Iceland Winter Traditions Iceland, Travel Guide … Visit Iceland, iceland tours, travels, holidays, what to do, travel, trips, travel, guide, attractions, vacation, sightseeing, activities, destination
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https://iceland-trips.blogspot.com/search/?q=Iceland+Winter+Traditions
Feb 5, 2020 ─ Gourmet Traveller
An 11-seat restaurant destined for a Michelin-starred future, a heritage coffee house, and North African food cooked with Icelandic ingredients – Ragnar Eiríksson shows us around Iceland‘s capital.
In a past life, Ragnar Eiríksson was at the helm of Dill, Iceland‘s first Michelin-starred restaurant and an operation that zeroed in on the ingredients and food traditions of North Iceland.
https://www.gourmettraveller.com.au/travel/destinations/where-to-eat-in-reykjavik-18225
Amazon U.S. (paperback)• Iceland (Bradt Travel Guide)
This new, thoroughly updated fifth edition of Bradt’s award-winning Iceland guide remains the most in-depth guide available to one of the few countries in the world that has no mosquitoes, no ants, no Starbucks and no MacDonalds. Featuring honest, practical information from an author who has repeatedly visited the country over twenty years and is familiar with its language, history and culture, Bradt’s Iceland has won the Lowell Thomas Award (the highest travel writing award available in the United States) and provides more context for individual places than any other guidebook, plus frank, investigative hotel and restaurant reviews that hide nothing.
This latest edition covers everything you would expect, from the Northern Lights to snow mobiling, dog sledding, visiting West Fjords, Iceland’s remotest corner, and the Laugavegur trail, Iceland’s most famous 5-day trek. New developments covered include the merging together of different Nature Reserves and National Parks under the ‘Vatnajökull National Park’ banner, better infrastructure throughout the entire country, new hotels, restaurants, bars and geothermal spas, and more tour companies offering a wider variety of activities. For Reykjavik, there has been a complete update of the city’s nightlife, restaurants, hotels, swimming pools and festivals, while other new features include fuller coverage of East Iceland, visiting hot springs and spas, 4X4 adventures in the Icelandic Highlands, plus more details of how and where to experience Iceland’s amazing wildlife. Bradt’s Iceland also offers the most detailed maps of any guidebook.
Based on 20 years of personal and business travel, exploration and adventure all around the country, the guide is exhaustive, well-researched and comprehensive, featuring a year-round approach to travelling in Iceland in line with the development of the local tourist industry to offer attractions beyond the normal summer season. As a contributor to National Geographic, and a frequent host for tours to Iceland, Andrew Evans explores some of the remotest corners of the country regularly. He continues to lecture about the country to high-end tour groups, as well as the National Geographic Society and Smithsonian Institution. His guide is exhaustive, allowing travellers to make informed decisions, to go anywhere and explore anything.
- Великие катастрофы Норвегии – Фотография, море, путешествия [Norway’s great catastrophes – Photography, sea, travel ─Google Translate]
25 июл, 2014 [July 25, 2014]
Для многих Норвегия самая красивая страна. Вместе с тем, едут туда еще и потому, что любое путешествие по Норвегии считается самым безопасным. Там все настолько хорошо организовано и предусмотрено, что даже сложно представить что там может случиться с туристами. Однако, если посмотреть на историю Норвегии, то можно найти немало фактов, что далеко не всегда это была спокойная и безопасная страна. Несколько катастроф, оставивших значительный след. …
iceland. instagram. international boat show.
For many, Norway is the most beautiful country. However, they also go there because any trip to Norway is considered the safest. Everything there is so well organized and provided that it is even difficult to imagine what could happen to tourists there. However, if you look at the history of Norway, you can find many facts that it was not always a calm and safe country. Several catastrophes that left a significant mark. … ─Google Translate
https://oksa-sun.livejournal.com/369191.html
Dec 18, 2019 ─ GlobeNewswire
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Dec. 18, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — EnWave Corporation (TSX-V:ENW | FSE:E4U) (“EnWave”, or the “Company”) announced today that has signed a royalty-bearing commercial license agreement (the “License”) with Responsible Foods ehf (“Responsible Foods”) to produce Radiant Energy Vacuum (“REV™”) dried snacks and ingredients using premium Icelandic raw materials. …
The snacks are based on healthy authentic clean natural Icelandic ingredients rooted in centuries of Icelandic Viking traditions. The company is revolutionizing snacking using the proven exclusive EnWave drying technology in combination with its Icelandic ingredient and exclusive formulations. …
https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2019/12/18/1962236/0/en/EnWave-Signs-Commercial-License-Agreement-with-Responsible-Foods-in-Iceland-and-Receives-Purchase-Order-For-REV.html
25 Dec 2012 … Icelanders are voracious readers. Books have been the Christmas gift of choice in this small nation for decades. The annual “Book Flood” tradition begins with a publisher’s catalog in every mailbox.
It’s a national tradition, and it has a name: Jolabokaflod, or the “Christmas Book Flood.”
“The culture of giving books as presents is very deeply rooted in how families perceive Christmas as a holiday,” says Kristjan B. Jonasson, president of the Iceland Publishers Association. …
https://www.npr.org/2012/12/25/167537939/literary-iceland-revels-in-its-annual-christmas-book-flood
Dec 22, 2018 ─ Quartz
Book lovers around the world should channel the spirit of jólabókaflóð.
The Nordic nation of some 350,000 people observes an annual holiday tradition known as jólabókaflóð, or the Christmas book flood. Even in a time of smartphones and dwindling book sales, books remain the country’s most popular Christmas gift. …
https://qz.com/quartzy/1496786/iceland-has-the-best-holiday-tradition-for-bookworms/
16 Jan 2018 … Given the genetics of Iceland and the nature of the people who settled it, it’s possible that a large percentage of the first women on Iceland were taken there as slaves. …
But based on the mitochondrial DNA, which is only passed down in the female line, we know that over half of the female settlers were Celtic, meaning they came from Ireland, Scotland, and the northwestern islands of Britain. …
https://all496.blogspot.com/2019/12/viking-sex-slaves-dirty-secret-behind_2.html
Dec 3, 2019 ─ InsideHook
Eimverk Distillery is working to put Icelandic whisky on the map. And its secret weapon: sheep poop. … Related: is sheep dung the new peat? Flóki. Flóki’s single malt whisky embraces the unexpected traditions of Iceland. Eimverk Distillery… Iceland might not be the first country that comes to mind when you think of notable whisky. But a quick glance at a map or atlas can be revealing. On one side of Iceland are Scotland and Ireland; on the other, the United States and Canada — whisk(e)y powerhouses all. Think about it long enough and the question turns on its head: perhaps it’s stranger that Iceland isn’t more known for its whiskey. […]
https://www.insidehook.com/article/booze/will-the-next-great-whisky-come-from-iceland
Iceland has a long and fascinating history of folklore, traditions, and superstitions. Since the dawn of time, Icelanders have been relaying fantastical tales of extraordinary encounters and celebrating unusual traditions.
Modern-day Iceland has all of the technology and knowledge of the 21st century, but these long-held traditions and tall tales still bubble beneath the surface, creating a melting pot of unique customs and culture that can only be found on this beautiful island. …
https://www.icelandontheweb.com/articles-on-iceland/iceland-travel-blog/nanar/5025/icelandic-folklore-and-traditions
Feb 3, 2020 ─ Reykjavík Grapevine
Ásatrúa Pagans received aid from an unexpected source. Religious leaders in Thailand donated thousands of euros to the temple.
From Iceland — News — Ásatrú Pagans Receive Foreign Aid … lights and traditions bring much-needed warmth to the cold Icelandic winters. “The gods are doing their work in a mysterious and inspiring way,” Pagan Chief Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson told Vísir.
https://grapevine.is/news/2020/02/03/asatrua-temple-nearly-complete/
27 May 2011 … This looks interesting.
Here’s the blurb from Chaosium’s site :
MYTHIC ICELAND
by Pedro Ziviani
MYTHIC ICELAND brings to life the world of the Icelandic Sagas and fairy tales.
The Nordic and Celtic peoples settled Iceland in the 9th century coming from lands with rich traditions of folklore, where the mythical and supernatural are part of daily life. …
https://akraticwizardry.blogspot.com/2011/05/mythic-iceland-for-brp.html
Dec 19, 2018 ─ SBS
The world is embracing Iceland‘s jolabokaflod Christmas Eve tradition, where friends and family give books as gifts, then settle in for a night of reading, often with a cup of hot chocolate.
If the idea of settling in for the night with a good book and a drink – a hot chocolate if it’s cold, a glass of something chilled if it’s hot – sounds like heaven, then Iceland’s Christmas Eve Jólabókaflóðið (roughly, “flood of books”) tradition is for you. Iceland has always been a country of booklovers, and while the rate of book buying and publishing has settled a little from the dizzy heights of years past, jólabókaflóðið, or jolabokaflod, remains a popular tradition. …
https://www.sbs.com.au/food/article/2018/12/19/icelands-book-and-chocolate-tradition-perfect-way-spend-christmas-eve
Christmas Rejuvenation at Iceland: https://tkwsdmc.com
17 May 2020 – Movie Makers Guide
In recent years Iceland has been gaining a higher profile in the international film industry. Internationally acclaimed actors and directors have been working in Iceland with highly skilled local crews.
Located in the middle of the Atlantic, Iceland has active volcanoes and geothermal hot springs in numerous places around the country. …
Film-in-Iceland is a project run by Invest in Iceland Agency, an independent agency of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce. Main emphasis is to introduce Iceland as an interesting location for foreign film makers and the possibility of applying for reimbursements of 12% of the costs incurred in the production of films and television programs in Iceland. …
https://moviemakers.guide/film-in-iceland/
November 9, 2020 ─ ATV Today
Film-in-Iceland is a project run by Invest in Iceland Agency, an independent agency of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce. Main emphasis is to introduce
Celebrities and social media stars across the UK have joined in the newly invented Icelandic tradition of ‘Fishmas’, a twice weekly culinary celebration that heralds the Nordic country’s glorious bounty, now available at Waitrose. …
https://www.atvtoday.co.uk/161914-fish/
10 Dec 2019 … Every country has its own sets of Christmas traditions and Iceland, of course, has its own. They mostly revolve around food and books. And fireworks. So, check out this fun list of Iceland Christmas traditions. … See Iceland Christmas traditions here!
You can take part in these Icelandic traditions by buying fireworks from the ICE-SAR, we work with them if you get lost in the wilderness!
https://www.bluecarrental.is/blog/christmas-traditions-in-iceland/
Tue Oct 27, 2020 ─ tor.com
Tordotcom Publishing is thrilled to announce the next novella from Sarah Tolmie, Aurora and Rhysling award-winning poet and author of The Fourth Island. All the Horses of Iceland is a compact historical saga that traces the imagined descent of the Icelandic horses along a Viking trade route, melding folkloric and magical traditions along the way.
Everyone knows of the horses of Iceland—wild, and small, and free—but no one really knows their story. …
https://www.tor.com/2020/10/27/book-announcements-sarah-tolmie-all-the-horses-of-iceland/
22 Dec 2015 … CC BY 2.0 Steve Bissonette
Katherine Martinko ( @feistyredhair)
Living / Culture
December 21, 2015
Book lovers will want to adopt this lovely holiday tradition, which melds literary and holiday pleasures into a single event.…
Icelanders have a beautiful tradition of giving books to each other on Christmas Eve and then spending the night reading. This custom is so deeply ingrained in the culture that it is the reason for the Jolabokaflod, or “Christmas Book Flood,” when the majority of books in Iceland are sold between September and December in preparation for Christmas giving. …
https://nylibrariansmeetup.blogspot.com/2015/12/the-beautiful-icelandic-tradition-of.html
Oct 14, 2020 ─ CBC.ca
If you ask most people if something smells fishy, they’ll be able to give you a straight answer. But those with a certain genetic mutation might not know what the heck you’re talking about.
Icelandic researchers say some people have a genetic variant that makes the most pungent fish smell pleasant …
Those traditions have carried into modern cuisine, much to Stefánsson’s chagrin. …
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-the-tuesday-edition-1.5760379/don-t-mind-the-smell-of-fish-it-could-be-in-your-genes-1.5761940
15 Sep 2020 … Páskar (Easter in Icelandic), is a time that Icelanders like to relax and spend time with family. Their Easter holidays start with Maundy (Holy) Thursday. Most businesses close, but cinema’s tend to stay open throughout the holiday. Icelanders often leave town around Easter for a short break.
Like the Westerners, Icelandic children receive chocolate Easter eggs from parents and grandparents. …
https://www.tripcreator.com/blog/icelands-easter-traditions
3 November 2020 ─ Daily Mail
Frozen retailer Iceland, which has stores across the UK, reported a surge in sales of turkeys last week, with more than 4,000 customers snapping up the festive treat before Halloween.
Shoppers rush to stock up with Iceland selling 4,000 turkeys a week and Waitrose reporting festive food sales up by 280% …
In a nod to returning traditions, M&S’ Nativity Advent Calendar is currently the third most popular choice, with sales up over 86 per cent on the same period last year. …
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/food/article-8906359/Shoppers-buying-Christmas-dinners.html
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November 04, 2020 ─ TravelPulse
More than 100 new voyages open for bookings on November 11, 2020.
—Explore the unique cultural traditions and great outdoors of Alaska with glacier trekking, helicopter flightseeing and Go Local tours, plus more voyages cruising Hubbard Glacier with twelve convenient departures from Seattle, Vancouver, or Los Angeles of seven, nine, 10, 11, 12 or 13 days …
—Explore the best of New England, the Canadian Maritimes, Greenland, Iceland, the Norwegian Fjords, Baltic capitals, wine countries of France, Spain, and Portugal plus the Azores in one epic 46-day voyage with the supreme convenience of sailing roundtrip from New York City aboard Insignia …
https://www.travelpulse.com/news/cruise/oceania-cruises-launches-summer-2022-europe-and-america-voyages.html
Amazon U.S. • Traditions and Continuities: Alliteration in Old and Modern Icelandic Verse
Traditions and Continuities – Alliteration in Old and Modern Icelandic Verse, is a lucid and authorative treatment of Old Icelandic alliterative metre, and of the subtle changes it underwent as the language evolved into later and modern Icelandic. It falls into four sections, beginning with an exhaustive account of the mechanics of alliteration and their development up until the present; a review of the development of research into the subject; the author’s own research into the nature of alliterative verse, with special attention to complex phenomena such as vowel alliteration, s-clusters an hv-alliteration; and final section summarizing the main conclusions.
Written by a scholar and poet, this is an essential handbook for the English-speaking research student in the subject.
Feb. 15th, 2011 – From Russia with love- soul, traditions, cuisine
This kind of art is not very popular in the modern world. Now if you want to be popular you have to express yourself, to create something that nobody else did.
But I always preferred this type of art- so called ‘”photo-realism”- I loved this word when I have heard it first time. …
New Year traditions
thanks for this post. today I’ve found out your amazing blog when discussing with my Russian friend about Russian jam. i really like your blog. about this post, i love the last lines the most haha.…
https://snowymelodie.livejournal.com/22536.html
November 9, 2020 ─ Flux Magazine
words Al Woods
Whether you’re an avid traveler with an aim to visit every country in the world, or just someone who wants to knock a few things off their bucket list when they pile up a few extra vacation days – there are some spots in the world that simply everyone should see at least once. …
On one hand, there are the old traditions of Japan and its culture, whether hidden in small alleys in generational shops, or on the outskirts of the city in temples. …
Iceland is a beautiful place where nature really did some of her best work.
https://www.fluxmagazine.com/top-spots-that-are-worth-visiting/
4 Sep 2019 … Want to learn more about the Vikings in Iceland, bun day, wives’ day and other Icelandic traditions? Click here!
Iceland‘s Viking heritage meant a significant number of Icelandic traditions and beliefs is grounded on Norse mythology. However, due to the Christianisation of Iceland during 1000 AD, a lot of this heritage was lost. …
https://www.atak.is/blog/our-guide-to-icelandic-traditions
Iceland is investing millions to make tourism better in the future.
With international leisure travel pretty much at a standstill, Iceland is using its pandemic downtime to make some major upgrades to its tourist infrastructure. … Dia de los Muertos traditions with adjustments for COVID-19 safety; …
https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/iceland-is-using-its-pandemic-downtime-to-improve-its-roads-parks-and-natural-wonders/ar-BB1a4GmQ
Iceland is a special place with an array of holiday traditions that are as unique as the island its self. In Iceland, the Christmas festivit…
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Nov. 9, 2020 ─ The New York Times
For the Indigenous communities who herd the animals, safeguarding dying culinary traditions isn’t merely about eating but about protecting a longstanding way of life. …
Three years ago, just before the reindeer spring migration, he and his colleagues filed a 161-page report on food security and sovereignty with the Arctic Council, an intergovernmental forum established in 1996 to address issues of environmental change, whose members include representatives from native peoples and the eight nations with borders that extend above the northern tree line: Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, the Russian Federation, Sweden and the United States. …
Taking the microphone, Oskal said, “The food traditions of Arctic Indigenous peoples are probably among the least explored in world cuisine.” …
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/09/t-magazine/reindeer-arctic-food.html
20 Sep 2019 … Every country has its own Christmas traditions. In Iceland, almost the entire population celebrates Christmas and the holidays are for many Icelanders the most significant and most exciting time of the year. As early as mid-October you will begin to see Christmas advertisements from local stores, and at the end of November, you will start to hear Christmas songs on the radio.
Advent is the beginning of the Church Year for most churches in the Western tradition and Iceland as well. It begins on the fourth Sunday before Christmas Day, which is the Sunday nearest November 30 and ends on Christmas Eve. …
https://classiciceland.com/icelandic-christmas-traditions/
Nov 10, 2020 ─ Book Riot
If you can’t wait for winter’s snowy days, dark nights, and bleak landscapes, check out these books set in cold places.
They are set in Greenland and Iceland and Antarctica, in the bleak cold of a tide-locked planet, in snowstorms and chilly forests and tiny northern towns. …
But after her mother dies, her father brings a new wife home from Moscow, and she doesn’t believe in the old traditions.
https://bookriot.com/books-set-in-cold-places/
2 Dec 2018 … While giving books is not unique to Iceland, the tradition of exchanging books on Christmas Eve and then spending the evening reading is becoming a cultural phenomenon… a relaxing and charming tradition, even more so when it’s cold and snowing outside. …
Historical novels, romance, fantasy, science fiction, mystery, suspense, thrillers, westerns, young adult, memoirs, dream analysis, self help, authors
https://bwlauthors.blogspot.com/2018/12/under-christmas-tree-by-j-s-marlo.html
Jolabokaflod sounds like the best way to spend the holidays.
That’s exactly how Icelandic people celebrate Christmas each year. This tradition is known as Jolabokaflod, which translates roughly to “Christmas book flood” in English. …
https://uk.sports.yahoo.com/news/apos-time-bring-icelandic-tradition-161607205.html
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25 Dec 2019 – The Randomization
TIL of Jolabokaflod, a Christmas Eve tradition in Iceland where friends and family get together to exchange books and then they all read them together while eating chocolate and drinking cocoa.
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November 2020 ─ E-Flux
As is the case with GynePunk, collective care often derives from and is inspired by various premodern (or non-Western modern, or other-than-modern) traditions and non-patriarchal social structures, some characterized by matriarchal relations, where the sharing of care at all levels of human activity—perhaps extending also to the nonhuman realm—shapes the way people understand and exist in the world. …
Care and its politics have been a subject of concern to the art world, made all the more urgent by the global pandemic. But is it a real concern that can lead to changes in the way we operate in our institutions and working relationships, or is it merely surface level? …
The duo of Libia Castro and Ólafur Ólafsson has been engaged for some years in their project “In Search of Magic – Proposal for a New Constitution for the Republic of Iceland,” working with many groups in Olafsson’s native Iceland to enact collective care for the polis: they have recently concluded a big demonstration-performance that, together with hundreds of citizens, demanded the reconfiguration of the Icelandic constitution. …
https://www.e-flux.com/journal/113/359463/the-bureau-of-care-introductory-notes-on-the-care-less-and-care-full/
7 Nov 2018 … Did you know that there are more sheep in Iceland than double the population? Read on for a little fun education on some of our favourite traditions here in Vik!
Note: Some farmers outside of Vik, keep their sheep down by the roads so as we said in our “Driving in Iceland” blog post, please be careful and beware of these guys running around if they get outside of the fence. …
https://katlatrack.is/keeping-traditions-alive-in-vik-iceland/
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2 November 2020 ─ The Local Europe
Since the onset of the pandemic, the idea of a ‘Nordic unity’ has been difficult to sustain. Why do we speak of Northern Europe as a separate entity and, if these countries are so similar, what explains the divergences in approach to the coronavirus crisis? …
One such category is the Nordic region or Scandinavia (which are not the same, with the term Scandinavia covering Denmark, Sweden and Norway, while the Nordic countries also include Finland, Iceland, Greenland, Åland and the Faroe Islands). …
The divergencies in administrative traditions – which in Sweden resulted in Anders Tegnell and the Public Health Agency being at the helm, whereas in Norway, Denmark and Finland it has been the government primarily taking the lead – can, according to Strang, be linked to historical differences in governance between the Danish and Swedish empires. …
https://www.thelocal.com/20201102/what-unites-and-divides-the-northern-countries
25 May 2012 … I came across an excellent potted history of Icelandic cooking , on the website of the cooking magazine Gestgjafinn and decided to post a link. It was written by Icelandic food and cookery doyenne Nanna Rögnvaldardóttir. Do read it if you are interested in the traditions and influences in Icelandic cookery. …
유 유 유 유 유 유
https://icecook.blogspot.com/2012/05/icelandic-food-history.html
Jun 13, 2020 ─ Winnipeg Free Press
Why do so few people speak Icelandic today? Why do many Icelanders have English names? What is with the Viking statues and the obsession with vinarterta?
These are just some of the questions that L.K. Bertram says visitors from Iceland to Manitoba have asked. In The Viking Immigrants, the assistant professor of history at the University of Toronto attempts to answer these queries and also explores other Icelandic immigrant habits and traditions.
https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/entertainment/books/putting-down-roots-571235662.html
3 Dec 2019 … There are a few odd traditions that can be found during the Holiday Season in Iceland. The whole business of history, myth and religion that got mixed up in the creation of the troll Grýla, her good-for-nothing husband Leppalúði and their mischievous sons the 13 very badly behaved yulelads, not to mention her children-eating cat-monster.
Just to go over the Yule Lads a little bit, what they do andthe order in which they arrive into town from December 12th up until the 24th.
https://www.travelreykjavik.com/blog/christmas-in-iceland-13-bad-santas
November 6, 2020 ─ BBC History Magazine
The longest serving heir apparent in British history, Prince Charles is a royal who has blended tradition with unconventionality. We take a closer look at his life – from his time as a young royal in the media glare and his first steps as the Prince of Wales, to his roles as son, husband and father…
In 1979, when Charles was away fishing in Iceland, he received the news that Lord Mountbatten had been assassinated, an act for which the IRA took responsibility. …
In keeping with more usual traditions of the mid-century, Prince Philip was not in the delivery room during the arrival of his first three children. …
https://www.historyextra.com/period/20th-century/prince-charles-wales-life-marriage-royal-family/
8 Mar 2007 … Because of Iceland‘s northerly location, the sun rises very low over the horizon during the winter. The country has many deep, narrow fjords and valleys where the sun does not rise above the mountains for many weeks during the darkest winter days. …
This tradition is widespread in Iceland, especially in the east and west fjords, but also in some fjords and valleys in the north.
The Sun Coffee is traditionally served with pancakes, cream cake and any other cake you want! …
http://icecook.blogspot.com/2007/03/slarkaffi-sun-coffee.html
Aug 28, 2020 ─ Metro
Thought the elf storyline in Netflix’s Eurovision film was just a bit of fun? Think again. Meet the Icelanders who say elves are very real. … A massive 62% of Icelanders believe elves are more than just a fairytale
For the people of Iceland, this nod to their traditions and beliefs has been welcomed, with plans already being made to build a replica of the movie\u2019s elf-house in the town where it was filmed. …
https://metro.co.uk/2020/08/28/elves-real-apparently-13094117/
Amazon U.S. • Colloquial Icelandic: The Complete Course for Beginners (Colloquial Series)
• A slightly cheaper earlier edition published back in 2001 is still available: Colloquial Icelandic: The Complete Course for Beginners (Colloquial Series)
Colloquial Icelandic provides a step-by-step course in Icelandic as it is written and spoken today. Combining a user-friendly approach with a thorough treatment of the language, it equips learners with the essential skills needed to communicate confidently and effectively in Icelandic in a broad range of situations. No prior knowledge of the language is required.
Key features include:
- progressive coverage of speaking, listening, reading and writing skills
- structured, jargon-free explanations of grammar
- an extensive range of focused and stimulating exercises
- realistic and entertaining dialogues covering a broad variety of scenarios
- useful vocabulary lists throughout the text
- additional resources available at the back of the book, including a full answer key, a grammar summary, bilingual glossaries and English translations of dialogues.
This second edition has been extensively updated and revised throughout, and includes up-to-date cultural information, an enhanced index, an expanded glossary and completely new audio recordings.
Balanced, comprehensive and rewarding, Colloquial Icelandic will be an indispensable resource both for independent learners and for students taking courses in Icelandic.
Audio material to accompany the course is available to download free in MP3 format from www.routledge.com/cw/colloquials. Recorded by native speakers, the audio material features the dialogues and texts from the book and will help develop your listening and pronunciation skills.
By the end of this course, you will be at Level B2 of the Common European Framework for Languages and at the Intermediate-High on the ACTFL proficiency scales.
- Государство Корё (918-1392) [Koryo State (918-1392)]
July 23rd, 2015 – Онлайн-дневник Маккавити [- McCaviti’s online diary]
В течение династии Корё китаизация политической системы продолжалась. В 928 г. в стране были введены государственные экзамены « кваго », что окончательно определило путь развития политической структуры страны как симбиоз чиновничества и аристократии. Власть определялась не правом рождения, а занимаемой должностью и соответствующим ей рангом. …
[4] Choong Soon Kim. Tradition… Р. 36.
[5] Тема пленников вако, равно как и судьба многих корейских ремесленников, вывезенных в Японию в ходе Имджинской войны, до сих пор является одной из болевых точек в корейско-японских отношениях. …
During the Koryo dynasty, the Chineseization of the political system continued. In 928, the state’s “quago” exams were introduced in the country, which finally determined the path of development of the country’s political structure as a symbiosis of bureaucracy and aristocracy. Power was determined not by birthright, but by the position held and the corresponding rank. …
[4] Choong Soon Kim. Tradition. R. 36.
[5] The subject of waco prisoners, as well as the fate of many Korean artisans deported to Japan during the Imjin War, is still one of the sore points in Korean-Japanese relations. … ─Google Translate
https://makkawity.livejournal.com/3459271.html
Sep 14, 2020 ─ IcelandMag
These are what makes Iceland’s arts and culture so special.
Icelanders are extremely proud of their Viking heritage and their Icelandic language. This is why they take their time in preserving their traditions.
https://icelandmag.com/what-is-unique-to-iceland-arts-and-culture/
29 Dec 2016 … Icelandic New Year Traditions from Iceland Rovers
Iceland has a few important New Years traditions that take place over the night of the 31st, and you can get to experience all of it.
Bonfires
The evening doesn’t start with partying: the anticipation of the day leads to the evening time when annual bonfires are lit all around the city. …
https://www.icelandrovers.is/blog/icelandic-new-years-traditions/
November 11, 2020
Four British writers covering the Masters had to get creative with their travel itineraries in order to adher to COVID-19 restrictions
“We looked at the alternatives and came up with three—Iceland, Turkey and Bermuda. …” … A completely unscientific ranking of 10 Masters traditions
https://www.golfdigest.com/story/masters-2020-thanks-to-covid-to-get-to-augusta-the-british-press-had-to-take-some-surprising-travel-detours
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Posted: 11 Nov 2020
English News and Press Release on World about Protection and Human Rights; published on 10 Nov 2020 by UN GA
Finland’s representative, also speaking for Denmark, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, stressed that universally recognized rules and principles of international law – reflected in the Vienna Conventions on Diplomatic and Consular Relations – oblige States hosting the diplomatic and consular missions of others to take all appropriate steps to protect the premises and staff of those missions. …
Voicing support for the Commission’s focus on equality and rule of law, he said it promotes greater consistency and harmonization of international trade law, while keeping in mind the different realities, traditions and approaches of different States.
https://reliefweb.int/report/world/spotlighting-rising-attacks-sixth-committee-speakers-urge-adherence-vienna-conventions
With houses made up of colorful facades, Iceland‘s typical villages offer postcard-worthy views. If you’re looking to discover traditional Iceland, our local agencies recommend a number of authentic destinations throughout the island. Enjoy a mix of open-air excursions and folklore museums by visiting Skógar, a tiny village of 25 inhabitants in the south of the country adorned with traditional peat houses. Closer to Reykjavik, the Arbaer Open Air Museum (Árbæjarsafn) features restored buildings and actors portraying scenes of Iceland’s rural way of life at the beginning of the 20th century. …
https://www.evaneos.com/experiences/1075-learn-about-icelands-traditions-in-a-typical-village-or-harbor/
Jul 10, 2020 ─ Penn State News
Kayley Waltz (center) in Iceland in early March 2020 with her two Green Program guides, Bjarni Guðmundsson (left) and Erla Margrét Gunnarsdóttir (right). Image: Kayley Waltz …
For Kayley Waltz, a Penn State rising senior in chemical engineering, a trip to Iceland in early 2020 was a big step toward a career goal of making an impact via developing new forms of renewable energy.
https://news.psu.edu/story/625516/2020/07/10/academics/path-meaningful-chemical-engineering-career-way-iceland
19 Dec 2019 … The fate of over one hundred horses in Northwestern Iceland remains unknown following extreme weather conditions last week, RÚV reports. Approximately 80 horses have been confirmed dead. A veterinarian at MAST (the Icelandic Food and Veterinary Authority) has called the conditions unprecedented.
Nearly 80 Horses Dead
Around the country, dozens of horses kept outside during last week’s storm perished. […]
Björnsdóttir also stated that keeping horses outside is a tradition that is unlikely to change. …
https://www.icelandreview.com/nature-travel/80-horses-dead-and-over-100-missing/
Jun 14, 2020 ─ TheTravel
Only in Iceland could they make a hot dog seem like a five-course, luxury steak dinner… And that’s only one popular comfort food.
In this up and coming food scene, Iceland is comparative to many other European countries that have made a name for themselves with farm-to-table and sea-to-table menus…
While this isn’t something that necessarily a “must-try”, it’s definitely park of Icelandic tradition, according to any native.
https://www.thetravel.com/is-food-in-iceland-good/
13 Icelandic Yule Lads: Naughty or Nice?: https://www.tripcreator.com
December 24, 2019 – Alannah K. Pearson
In Iceland, the Yule Cat, Jólakötturin, is a traditional monstrous figure that purportedly prowls the countryside on Christmas Eve devouring those who did not receive new clothing items for Christmas. There are many debates over the origins of the Yule Cat in Icelandic tradition which does not appear to be mentioned in written form before the 19th century, however, some Icelandic traditions state new clothes are a reward for children who complete chores on time by Christmas Eve. …
http://alannahkpearson.com/2019/12/24/icelands-monstrous-yule-cat/
Jul 6, 2020 ─ Creative Bloq
Other brands: take note.
Iceland has enjoyed huge success in the world of football in recent years, with the men’s team becoming the smallest country ever to qualify for the World Cup in 2018, and the women’s team being named 18th in the world by FIFA last year. …
Described as “a distinctive blend of old traditions and modern styles,” the unnamed typeface also includes a decorative version, inspired by traditional wood carvings. …
https://www.creativebloq.com/news/iceland-football-team-logo
19 Dec 2016 … This blog is all about Icelandic Christmas and New Year traditions. All the quirks and fun facts about Icelandic people. Read more.
The Christmas meal is the most important meal and event of the year, and families in iceland go all out here, on food as well as themselves, wearing their best.
One very interesting Icelandic Christmas tradition is that every year Icelandic families get together to remember deceased loved ones, visiting their graves and laying candles beside them.
https://www.mountainguides.is/blog/iceland-christmas-and-new-year-traditions
Mar 1, 2015 ─ Quartz
Reykjavík’s biggest shopping street is littered with abandoned babies sleeping in their strollers. …
Thorsteinsson suggested that parents used the trendy portable cradle—the stroller—to let their children sleep outside, and a new tradition suddenly emerged. The second generation of Icelanders in the 20th century napped outside, and so has every generation since then. …
https://qz.com/351821/for-generations-icelandic-babies-have-napped-in-sub-zero-temperatures-outside/
12 Mar 2012 … The latter are traditions of what Mohammed and his companions did and said. The theory is that, since Mohammed was divinely inspired, his practice provides evidence of how God wishes believers to act—including men making and enforcing legal rules.
Since the traditions can be used as evidence for and against various interpretations of the law, there was an obvious incentive to fabricate suitable ones, a point recognized by Islamic legal scholars. …
https://daviddfriedman.blogspot.com/2012/03/iceland-sharia-and-reliability-of-oral.html
12 Nov 2020 ─ Prestige Online
In Faroes Island, an isolated archipelago bereft of trees and exposed to the harsh elements, we find magic and bliss in its green isles and cuisine.
Geographically, the islands are between Norway and Iceland. … But locals will tell you that genealogically, they are closer to the Vikings who settled there in the 9th century, while culturally, they are uniquely Faroese with their own traditions and a language that is closer to Icelandic.
https://www.prestigeonline.com/sg/travel/destinations/faroe-islands-travel-itinerary/
28 Sep 2020 … Jolabokaflod, which translates roughly to “Christmas book flood” in English, is the Icelandic tradition of giving and receiving books at Christmas. …
Why Icelanders Spend Every Christmas Eve Reading Books and Drinking Cocoa …
“The culture of giving books as presents is very deeply rooted in how families perceive Christmas as a holiday,” Kristjan B. Jonasson, president of the Iceland Publishers Association, told NPR.
https://www.countryliving.com/life/a46204/jolabokaflod-iceland-christmas-reading-tradition/
November 12, 2020 ─ We Are The Mighty
Hip Hop group Space Force, composed of a trio of military musicians, recently released the video to their newest song Galaxy from their album Rocket Science. Filmed in the mountains of Colorado, the video explores the search for oneself through a sci-fi twist.
The group includes Topher, a former cryptologic language analyst for the Air Force; D.Cure, a former military Law Enforcement Officer/ 911 Dispatcher for the Air Force; and The Marine Rapper, a former combat correspondent with Marine Corps infantry battalions. … Continued
While the annual Army-Navy Game might be one of the U.S. military’s oldest ongoing traditions, it’s an event that has not always included the Commander-In-Chief.
https://www.wearethemighty.com/mighty-culture/space-force-galaxy-music-video/
6 Oct 2011 … About a year ago, Amber and I went on an epic knitting journey to Iceland. We were able to learn about the Icelandic knitting traditions, go on tons of magical Icelandic adventures and meet and make friends with many amazing knitters. Iceland has a rich knitting tradition and Icelanders take great pride in it. On our journey we picked out some Lopi yarn and started our Icelandic Lopi sweaters. …
Lopi yarn is made from Icelandic sheep which are a rare, dual-coated breed of sheep.
https://fancytiger.blogspot.com/2011/10/jaimes-icelandic-lopi-sweater.html
Nov 4, 2020 ─ Travel Agent
The 2022 Europe & North America Collection comprises 110 itineraries, including 77 brand-new offerings and 10 new ports of call. Read more here. …
More than 250 ports of call are located throughout Northern and Western Europe, Iceland, Greenland, the Mediterranean, Greek Isles, Holy Lands, Alaska, Canada and New England, Bermuda and the Caribbean. …
Explore the cultural traditions and great outdoors of Alaska with glacier trekking, helicopter flightseeing and Go Local tours, plus more voyages cruising Hubbard Glacier with 12 departures from Seattle, Vancouver or Los Angeles of seven, nine, 10, 11, 12 or 13 days …
https://www.travelagentcentral.com/cruises/oceania-unveils-2022-europe-north-america-collection-voyages
Amazon U.S. • North American Icelandic: The Life of a Language
North American Icelandic evolved mainly in Icelandic settlements in Manitoba and North Dakota and is the only version of Icelandic that is not spoken in Iceland. But North American Icelandic is a dying language with few left who speak it.North American Icelandic is the only book about the nature and development of this variety of Icelandic. It details the social and linguistic constraints of one specific feature of North American Icelandic phonology undergoing change, namely Flámæli, which is the merger of two sets of front vowels. Although Flámæli was once a part of traditional Icelandic, it was considered too confusing and was systematically eradicated from the language. But in North America, Flámæli use spread unchecked, allowing the rare opportunity of viewing the evolution of a dialect from its birth to its impending demise.
- Миф об обезьянах, бананах и ледяном душе [The myth of monkeys, bananas and the icy soul]
2011-01-17 ─ kobak
В статье про гибель русской демократии 501 год назад (о том как победившие в отрицательном отборе на подхалимство перед Ордой и подлость перед собратьями московские князья уничтожили Новгородскую и Псковскую республики) в очередной раз прочел об эксперименте с обезьянами, бананами и ледяным душем. …
In an article about the demise of Russian democracy 501 years ago (about how the Moscow princes who won the negative selection for hypocrisy before the Horde and meanness before their brothers destroyed the Novgorod and Pskov republics) once again read about an experiment with monkeys, bananas and an ice shower. … ─Google Translate
Combining these results with those from recent social-diffusion studies in two larger groups offers the first experimental evidence that a nonhuman species can sustain unique local cultures, each constituted by multiple traditions.
https://kobak.livejournal.com/96829.html
Jun 20, 2020 ─ National Geographic UK
The snow is falling lightly in the Kolbeinsdalur Valley. Everyone is waiting; anticipation lies heavy in the air. A distant rumble of hoofs breaks the silence and over the horizon, right on cue, a herd of more than 500 wild horses thunders into view. Welcome to Laufskálarétt, Iceland’s biggest annual horse round-up. …
“… From documenting local customs and traditions to awe-inspiring landscapes and incredible wildlife, this year’s entrants prove once again how powerful a medium travel photography can be.” …
https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/travel/2020/06/photo-story-the-yearly-ritual-of-wild-horse-herding-in-icelands-kolbeinsdalur-valley
25 Sep 2020 … Each year around June 21st we look forward to the summer solstice in the Nordics. Let’s look at how the occasion is celebrated in the North.
The Nordic nations – Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark and Iceland – have long marked the summer solstice with traditions dating back to Pagan times. Today you can join in on the festivities when you visit the Nordics in summer. …
https://www.nordicvisitor.com/blog/celebrating-the-solstice-midsummer-in-the-nordics/
Aug 7, 2020 ─ The Irish Sun
JOHN KAVANAGH has introduced followers to his son Conall John as he explained the Celtic and Icelandic inspiration behind the name.
The MMA coach and fiancee Orlagh Hunter are embarking upon parenthood together after Conall was born on Monday night. …
“Middle name John from the Icelandic tradition of surnames usually derived from the father’s name. …
“I always have had a special relationship with Iceland and the people there so wanted part of that tradition. …”
https://www.thesun.ie/sport/mma/5755038/john-kavanagh-son-conall-name-instagram-conor-mcgregor/
23 Aug 2011 … The songs evoked Iceland’s stunning landscapes, the country’s compelling history, folklore and traditions, as well as the immense creativity and artistry of its people. …
It was so great to see so many Icelanders and their families enjoy the Quileute Nation’s traditions, performances by Tomten and Bob Culbertson, Bill Stafford’s photo exhibit, and for so many children to enjoy the puppet theater Giraffe & Staff.
https://ambassadorblogiceland.blogspot.com/2011/08/
Christmas Eve traditions from around the globe: how people from different countries celebrate the night before Christmas
· Norway Christmas Eve tradition: Broom hiding
· Poland Christmas Eve tradition: Wigilia …
https://www.heart.co.uk/christmas/christmas-eve-traditions-world/
13 Mar 2018 … Interested in studying in Iceland? Our Study in Iceland guide highlights everything you need to know about language and culture, as well as information about the higher education system in Iceland.
As an isolated island in the middle of the North Atlantic, majority of Iceland‘s traditions have been spared from the influences of the outside world and are still intact up to this day. …
This kind of linguistic purism can trace its roots back to the 18th century, when a preservation movement was launched as Icelandic traditions were under threat from the influence of the Danish.
https://www.educations.com/study-guides/europe/study-in-iceland/language-culture-13472
Jan 1, 2020 ─ Iceland Monitor
People in Southwest Iceland have a reason to praise the weather gods today for bringing us heavy rain and strong winds. This is their way of cleaning the air of all the pollution created last night from our annual fireworks craze.
We wake up in clean air with a relatively clean conscience: the mess we created last night long gone. …
https://icelandmonitor.mbl.is/news/culture_and_living/2020/01/01/new_year_s_day_in_iceland/
9 Dec 2017 … I have visited Iceland three times. I have so enjoyed each visit from, the Icelandic Horse riding, to the Black Sand Beaches, to wandering Reykjavik and their wonderful bookstores. …
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https://libertybaybooks.blogspot.com/2017/12/i-love-love-love-this-tradition.html
Aug 29, 2020 ─ NMSU Aggies
LAS CRUCES, N.M. – The Spaniard is headed to Iceland.
After finishing up his NM State men’s basketball career this past March and receiving his bachelor’s degree this summer, Ivan Aurrecoecha has signed a professional contract with Þór Akureyri – a men’s basketball team based out of Akureyi, Iceland.
The Spaniard’s new team played is Iceland‘s top pro league. Share: Story Links. …
https://nmstatesports.com/news/2020/8/29/mens-basketball-aurrecoechea-inks-pro-deal-with-icelandic-team-r-akureyri.aspx
THE FOLK MUSIC FESTIVAL IN SIGLUFJÖRÐUR: https://hatid.is
8 Aug 2020 – Delusional Bubble
Did you know that Iceland is the best country in the world to live in? There are uncountable reasons why Iceland is the best country on the planet. We’ll discuss 20 reasons why Iceland is the best country on the planet.
You’ve probably heard about Iceland before and might have even traveled to Iceland, but did you know that according to many sources in the world, Iceland is the best country in the world to live in? …
Top RankingIcelandScandinaviaNorwayDenmark
https://delusionalbubble.com/2020/08/08/20-reasons-why-iceland-is-the-best-country-on-the-planet/
Jan 17, 2017 ─ Smithsonian
Historically, hunting seabirds has been a distinctive feature of Nordic coastal culture. Should it still be?
A wheel of wings spins around Grímsey Island, Iceland‘s northernmost outpost. This eyebrow of land 40 kilometers above the mainland crosses the Arctic Circle. …
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/uncertain-future-puffin-dinner-180961829/
From the white dress to the throwing of the bouquet, modern Icelandic weddings look a lot like American ones. Icelanders have a relaxed attitude towards traditions but some of our old ways still frequently make their way into a couple’s big day.
To start with, the Icelandic word for wedding, “brúðkaup” literally means “buying the bride” – as weddings were primarily seen as an economic transaction, between the father of the bride and the groom or his father. …
https://www.hotelrangablog.is/post/icelandic-wedding-traditions
Oct 31, 2019 ─ Iceland Monitor
Halloween will be celebrated in Iceland tonight. …
Kristinn explains that Halloween has its roots in Celtic tradition and was brought to the United States by the Celtic nations. …
https://icelandmonitor.mbl.is/news/culture_and_living/2019/10/31/icelanders_embrace_halloween/
26 Dec 2017 … My husband and I visited Iceland this past year. It was an amazing trip; we saw waterfalls, glaciers, volcanoes, fjords, geysers, black sand beaches, lava fields, snow-covered mountains, lupin-covered valleys, icebergs, a black sand desert, geothermal mud pools and fumaroles, etc. …
One of the Christmas traditions of this country which I fell in love with is Jólabókaflóð. …
https://schatjesshelves.blogspot.com/2017/12/make-jolabokaflo-boxing-day-tradition.html
May 4, 2020 ─ Treehugger
Book lovers will want to adopt this lovely holiday tradition, which melds literary and holiday pleasures into a single event.
Icelanders have a beautiful tradition of giving books to each other on Christmas Eve and then spending the night reading. …
https://www.treehugger.com/icelanders-give-books-christmas-eve-4858313
10 Jul 2016 … Bolludagur or Bun Day in Iceland Recipe plus more information on the surrounding holidays and traditions.
This week is very special in Iceland with three days of fun activities, feasting, and celebrating. It is so important to continue teaching the traditions, folklore, history, and culture. …
During Lent in Iceland, the Passion Hymns (Passíusálmar) written by Hallgrímur Pétursson is broadcast.
https://www.icelandicroots.com/post/2017/01/18/traditions-surrounding-the-beginning-of-lent-in-iceland
Oct 28, 2019 ─ IcelandReview
Following the winding outskirts of Reykjavík, a gravel road jostles you toward a wooden hut. The strong scent of herbs emanates from the doorway. Before you can enter into the warm space, Tryggur, a charmingly fluffy Labrador-collie mix, sidles up to you in shy greeting. He leads you in and sits down patiently amongst a colourful collection of yarns, waiting for a pat while his owner talks over the sound of gently bubbling pots.
The story behind Iceland‘s vibrant wool traverses not just history, but that of national and personal identity. For Guðrún Bjarnadóttir, the tradition of obtaining colours from nature and the process of wool dyeing encompass not only her grandmother’s knowledge of plants and her mother’s love for sewing, but also Iceland’s journey from being a monochrome land, its palette of frosted snow against a charcoal earth, to a vivid kaleidoscope sewn into the fabric of what it means to be an Icelander. …
https://www.icelandreview.com/nature-travel/the-colourful-oddysey-of-icelandic-wool-dyeing/
19 Dec 2011 … The tradition of American cooperation with Icelandic Search and Rescue teams goes back decades and it included many joint operations and training with U.S. armed forces. …
The songs evoked Iceland’s stunning landscapes, the country’s compelling history, folklore and traditions, as well as the immense creativity and artistry of its people. …
Iceland’s support for UN Security Council Resolution 1973 and its financial assistance to the region reflects the best of Iceland’s humanitarian traditions. …
https://ambassadorblogiceland.blogspot.com/2011/
Dec 12, 2017 ─ Reader’s Digest
This Christmas tradition involves getting a brand-new book on Christmas Eve and reading it in bed with some hot chocolate. Need we say more?
The Icelandic name for this tradition is “Jolabokaflod,” or the “Christmas/Yule Book Flood.” (Sounds amazing already, right?!) Here’s how it works: …
https://www.rd.com/article/iceland-christmas-book-flood/
Amazon U.S. (English)• Comic Sagas and Tales from Iceland (Penguin Classics)
Comic Sagas and Tales from Iceland brings together the very finest Icelandic stories from the thirteenth to fifteenth centuries, a time of civil unrest and social upheaval. With feuding families and moments of grotesque violence, the sagas see such classic mythological figures as murdered fathers, disguised beggars, corrupt chieftains, and avenging sons who do battle with axes, words, and cunning. The tales, meanwhile, follow heroes and comical fools through dreams, voyages, and religious conversions in medieval Iceland and beyond. Shaped by Iceland’s oral culture and its people’s conversion to Christianity, these stories are works of ironic humor and stylistic innovation.
- АРАХНА: История и мифология [ARAHNA: History and mythology]
У мифа должна была быть своя функциональность.
Четыре основные функции мифа:
1. Этиологическая
2. Этическая
3. Эстетическая
4. Теологическая
Для проверки давайте вспомним рассказ о лидийской деве АРАХНЕ (a r a c n h, греч. “паук”), которая славилась как достигшая совершенства вышивальщица и ткачиха …
The myth had to have its own functionality.
The four main functions of the myth:
1. Etiological
2. Ethical
3. Aesthetic
4. Theological
To test, let’s recall the story of the Lydian maiden ARAHNE (a r a c n h, Greek “spider”), who was famous as a perfect embroiderer and weaver… ─ Google Translate
PROGRESS-TRADITION.
https://davidaidelman.livejournal.com/561903.html
11/13/20 ─ The Futon Critic
The production of Entrapped has commenced in Iceland and will launch on Netflix 2021. …
” … The show will keep on tackling crimes in Iceland through its unique setting, bringing stories of our beloved main characters and their search for justice in a country deeply rooted in its traditions.
http://www.thefutoncritic.com/news/2020/11/13/acclaimed-icelandic-series-trapped-gets-a-sequel-season-and-goes-to-netflix-488204/20201113netflix01/
Are you spending Christmas in Iceland? You should learn about Iceland‘s Christmas eve traditions and ugly sweater parties. Read more here at Iceland Unlimited. … Iceland Unlimited offers private day tours, guided group tours and high-quality self-drive tours around Iceland. We also offer accessible day tours for disabled travelers from Reykjavik and Akureyri. In addition, we offer four destinations in Greenland with round trip flights from Reykjavik. Iceland Unlimited also offers self-drive tours around the beautiful Faroe Islands.
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https://icelandunlimited.is/iceland-christmas-traditions-ugly-christmas-sweater-party/
November 12, 2020 ─ woman&home
Non pescatarian’s are joining in the culinary celebration by cooking up some Icelandic seafood. …
With Christmas 2020 going to be like no other, why not mix up your plans for Christmas dinner – going out with the old turkey traditions and in with the new ‘Fishmas’. You don’t have to be pescatarian to appreciate the taste of a fish dish, and now celebrities have joined in the newly invented Icelandic tradition of ‘Fishmas’.
https://www.womanandhome.com/us/food/food-news/you-dont-have-to-be-pescatarian-to-go-wild-for-this-icelandic-fishmas-tradition/
25 Jan 2014 … All your entertainment news, histories, happenings, gossips and gist packed in one unique view.. Worldhitz.com: the new world order in entertainment.
The Iceland music has a very long tradition, with some songs still sung today tracing from the 14th century. Folk songs are often about love, masculinity, sailors, hard winters, as well as elves, trolls and other mythological creatures, and tend to be quite secular and often entertaining. …
https://worldhitz4u.blogspot.com/2014/01/folk-music-of-iceland.html
November 13, 2020 ─ Louder
Icelandic post-rockers Sigur Rós will release orchestra album Odin’s Raven Magic in December … Odin’s Raven Magic draws from the band’s roots in orchestral and choral traditions, and is a collaboration between the band, Maria Huld Markan Sigfúsdóttir, Icelandic music legend Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson, and Steindór Andersen, one of Iceland’s most respected chanters of traditional epic narrative. …
https://www.loudersound.com/news/sigur-ros-release-video-for-new-single-stendur-aeva
5 Dec 2016 … Are you planning on traveling to Iceland during the Christmas season? Read about FUN Icelandic Christmas traditions, local cuisines, and much more …!
This blog will highlight FUN Icelandic Christmas traditions, local cuisines, Icelandic lamb and the traditional Icelandic foods and drinks that are consumed during the Christmas season in Iceland. …
The Icelanders have different traditions when it comes to eating this mouthwatering food – some eat it as a Christmas breakfast food, whereas some eat it as a dessert and some even make a fun food game while eating it. …
https://thereykjavikfoodwalk.com/christmas-in-iceland/
November 13, 2020 ─ New York Times Australia
A Maori community center in New Zealand is distributing bags of donated fish heads to families in need. But it’s more than just charity; it’s a model for reducing food waste.
He pointed to Iceland, where there is a push to use 100 percent of cod … to reconnect Maori to their cultural traditions, including through food.
You must have a membership account at this website in order to access the article. Supposedly one can be created for free. However, the same article appears to be available without that bother in a Baltimore Sun reference that I included farther on in this post, so watch for it. ─Garnet H.G. Barcelo
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/13/world/asia/new-zealand-pandemic-hunger.html
22 Dec 2015 … Library Blog of SFIT
Icelanders have a beautiful tradition of giving books to each other on Christmas Eve and then spending the night reading. This custom is so deeply ingrained in the culture that it is the reason for the Jolabokaflod, or “Christmas Book Flood,” when the majority of books in Iceland are sold between September and December in preparation for Christmas giving. …
https://sfitlibrary.blogspot.com/2015/12/the-beautiful-icelandic-tradition-of.html
12 Nov 2020 ─ News.Az
England removed mainland Greece from its safe travel list on Thursday, meaning that anyone arriving from there will have to self-isolate for 14 days.
Transport minister Grant Shapps said Bahrain, Chile, Iceland, Cambodia, Laos, UAE, Qatar, and Turks & Caicos Islands have been added to the safe travel list for England. …
https://www.news.az/news/england-removes-mainland-greece-from-safe-travel-list
Image from https://icelandictimes.com
24 Dec 2019 – Books on the 7:47
Happy Christmas Eve! Or should I say, Happy jólabókaflóð Day! In many ways I prefer today to tomorrow, there’s a sort of anti-climatic feeling that starts to creep in on Christmas Day, the dawning reality that the weeks of anticipation and general joyful cheer are now over. So that means I always hold a special place in my heart for the last day before Christmas – TODAY! …
I always find it fascinating learning facts about other cultures and I had no idea how much focus Iceland puts on literature and reading. Apparently Jolabokaflod originates from the time of World War II when paper was one of the few things not rationed, so people gave books as Christmas presents. … Since 1944 the publishing houses have been sending catalogues of all the upcoming book releases to EVERY HOUSE in Iceland (I know, can you imagine if we got that here??) generating publicity and causing excitement. …
Book BlogFictionReadingBook Thoughtsbook review blog
https://booksonthe747.com/2019/12/24/jolabokaflod-the-icelandic-christmas-eve-book-flood-tradition/
Nov 13, 2020 ─ Baltimore Sun
When just the fillets are used, as is typical in New Zealand and other places like the United States, that means only about one-third of a fish is eaten, said Sam Woolford, who runs LegaSea, an organization in Auckland concerned with destructive fishing techniques and the underuse of what is caught.
He pointed to Iceland, where there is a push to use 100% of cod that are caught, with bones turned into calcium supplements and skins destined for handbags. …
Hotene, 48, who runs the Papatuanuku Kokiri Marae with his partner of 29 years, Valerie Teraitua, 44, said his organization was trying to reconnect Maori to their cultural traditions, including through food.
https://www.baltimoresun.com/coronavirus/sns-nyt-new-zealand-pandemic-hunger-20201113-bnl7mqcf7zdstkznunryxw4niq-story.html
How Christmas is celebrated in Iceland and lots of other countries around the world. … Find out how Christmas is celebrated in Iceland.
This may have come from old Icelandic tradition, when a new day started at 6.00 pm not midnight. Icelandic children open their presents after the evening meal on Aðfangadagur. …
This is one of the most important nights of the year in Iceland and there are several magical traditions that are supposed to happen on it!
https://www.whychristmas.com/cultures/iceland.shtml
14 Nov 2020 ─ Business Traveller
Located in Brazil’s Mantiqueira Mountains, the hotel formerly operated as the Botanique Hotel and Spa but will be rebranded as the Six Senses Botanique in 2021. …
Six Senses Botanique will maintain Fernanda Ralston Semler’s design of the existing property, which draws on local traditions, culture and the region’s topography. …
Six Senses is also planning to open its first property in Italy in late 2021, followed by a hotel in Iceland in 2022, and its first London property in 2023.
https://www.businesstraveller.com/business-travel/2020/11/14/six-senses-to-debut-in-the-americas-in-2021/
9 Nov 2016 … Date of Issue : 3 November 2016
Iceland Post has revived the old Christmas traditions with three special stamps that underline the importance of hand-knitting.The design of the FDC is so beautiful. …
In former times in rural Iceland, people worked with great zeal to complete the work that had to be done before Christmas. …
https://rainbowstampclub.blogspot.com/2016/11/christmas-stamps-from-iceland_9.html
14 Nov 2020 ─ The Scottish Sun
TWITTER users have poked fun at Dominic Cumming’s departure from Downing Street, comparing pictures of him outside Number 10 to a John Lewis advert.
Carrying a box, which could be mistaken for a Christmas present, Cummings leaving under the lamp light became a joke on social media. …
“Our goal was to tell a universal story that inspires through the themes of family, love and special holiday traditions. …” … Ikea and Iceland also haven’t released their adverts, while Boots has …
https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/money/6180957/john-lewis-live-christmas-love/
Stories help us appreciate a landscape and culture. They further our understanding of the world around us and keep histories alive and teach us all lessons.
Icelandic culture
The small island nation of Iceland, stands out with a highly dynamic and cultural artistic scene centring around the Icelanders’ centuries-old love for storytelling. …
https://allgoodtales.com/storytelling-traditions-across-world-iceland/
Nov 13, 2020 ─ Daily Express
CHRISTMAS ADVERTS build up momentum towards the big day and this year, we have needed the fun-filled, spirited clips more than ever. In the coming weeks, the biggest brands will battle it out to be crowned the best Christmas advert of 2020. Here are all the adverts that have already been released. …
From Amazon’s singing boxes to the stars of Disney’s Frozen starring in Iceland’s Christmas advert offering, last year’s clips were full of surprises. …
The retail giant has gone back to basics, spreading the joy of classic Christmas traditions, set to the tune of Gary Barlow’s brand new single Incredible. …
https://www.express.co.uk/showbiz/tv-radio/1354541/Christmas-Adverts-20202-John-Lewis-Argos-Apple-Lidl-Boots-M-and-S-video-watch
17 Jan 2014 … There are few traditions Winnipegger’s covet more than finishing up a day of skating at The Forks with a dozen mini donuts. The Mini Donut Factory was one of the first stores at The Forks and has been churning out mini donuts there for a whopping 25 years. …
Roy is also the man behind the skates, as he has ran Iceland Skate Rentals at The Forks for almost as long as he’s sold donuts.
https://theforkswinnipeg.blogspot.com/2014/01/celebrating-25-years-with-mini-donut.html
As far as we can tell, names have existed since the beginning of time. Names that were popular in 1000 B.C. and those popular in 2020, are wildly different, however. Using 2019 data from Behind the Name, Stacker takes a closer look at the five most popular male and female names in 30 countries around the world. …
Most name data on this list dates from 2018, with the exception of the data from Iceland and Israel where the most recent information available was from 2016. …
Click through for more information about the naming traditions and conventions in each country and to see which names are currently reigning supreme. …
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/most-popular-baby-names-in-countries-around-the-world/ss-BB1ajd7f
Amazon U.S. • Icelanders in North America: The First Settlers
During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, thousands of Icelanders emigrated to both North and South America. Although the best known Icelandic settlements were in southern Manitoba, in the area that became known as ìNew Iceland,î Icelanders also established important settlements in Brazil, Minnesota, Utah, Wisconsin, Washington, Saskatchewan, and Nova Scotia. Earlier accounts of this immigration have tended to concentrate on the history of New Iceland.Using letters, Icelandic and English periodicals and newspapers, census reports, and archival repositories, Jonas Thor expands this view by looking at Icelandic immigration from a continent-wide perspective. Illustrated with maps and photographs, this book is a detailed social history of the Icelanders in North America, from the first settlement in Utah to the struggle in New Iceland.
- Мир согласно Google 74: 1147 лет со дня рождения Абу Бакра Мухаммада ибн Закария ар-Рази (Разеса) [The world according to Google 74: 1147 years since the birth of Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakariyya al-Razi (Razesa)
July 24th, 2013 – Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita… [In the middle of the journey of our life …]
Что: 1147 лет со дня рождения Абу Бакра Мухаммада ибн Закария ар-Рази (Разеса)
Появление: 26.08.2012
Страна: Арабский мир: Бахрейн, Афганистан, Саудовская Аравия, Алжир, Ливия, Египет, Оман, Ливан, Катар, Марокко, Иордания, Тунис, Объединенные Арабские Эмираты, Палестина, Ирак, Кувейт
Класс: Наука …
What: 1147 years since the birth of Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakariyya al-Razi (Razes)
Appearance: 26.08.2012
Country: Arab world: Bahrain, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, Libya, Egypt, Oman, Lebanon, Qatar, Morocco, Jordan, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Palestine, Iraq, Kuwait
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https://mirsoglasnomne.livejournal.com/76312.html
November 14, 2020 ─ Berkshire Eagle
Just when things were starting to get back to normal, COVID-19 reared its ugly head and is on a rampage again. …
The Fly Fishing Shows are some of the most anticipated gatherings annually because they are when our community can see what’s new, test products, make purchases, book travel, renew friendships and reignite the fire that drives us all to carry on the traditions of fly fishing. …
Anglers frequently book flyfishing trips to Labrador, Iceland and other exotic places. …
https://www.berkshireeagle.com/gene-chague-berkshire-woods-and-waters-pandemic-roars-back-raising-havoc-with-outdoor-sportsmen/article_bf003cca-2487-11eb-a9a4-5bdb4bf0476d.html
16 Dec 2016 … Due to local post-mortem practices, it’d be a bit of an inconvenience.
Today, funeral and burial practices usually follow the traditions of the National Church of Iceland, the country’s predominant denomination. These traditions include the kistulagninar, a small wake attended only by the closest family members and friends; the burial of the body or, if cremated, of the urn where ashes are contained; and, the posting of an obituary in a newspaper.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/heading-to-iceland-just-make-sure-you-dont-die-there
12 Nov 2020 ─ News.Az
England removed mainland Greece from its safe travel list on Thursday, meaning that anyone arriving from there will have to self-isolate for 14 days.
Transport minister Grant Shapps said Bahrain, Chile, Iceland, Cambodia, Laos, UAE, Qatar, and Turks & Caicos Islands have been added to the safe travel list for England. …
As an English-language private media outlet in Azerbaijan, News.Az Online News Agency aims to raise awareness of the world community about Azerbaijan, its domestic and foreign policy, economy, culture and traditions, as well as about its people.
https://news.az/news/england-removes-mainland-greece-from-safe-travel-list
Thoughts on psychology, creativity, and life
Christmas Traditions (weird and wonderful) …
My Christmas traditions involve family gathering to enjoy good food and opening gifts in front of the tree, as well as, of course, copious cookie baking. But I’m always intrigued by other cultural traditions. …
The last leg of our Icelandic journey took us through West Iceland on the way toward Keflavik.
We saw these large, round, white puffs on farms all over Iceland — I guess they grow really enormous marshmallows there! …
https://deborahstearns.blogspot.com/
Dec 11, 2016 ─ CBC.ca
The holiday cheer is in the air and people are grabbing their tinsel, mistletoe and fermented fish. While not everyone is grabbing the fermented skata to serve their guest, it’s a great delicacy in Iceland and part of their Christmas traditions.
For holiday traditions people hang similar decorations around their homes, but in Iceland there is a special candle-type decoration which is put in the window and on the mantle of the fireplace. …
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/inside-icelandic-christmas-from-yule-lads-to-the-christmas-cat-it-s-a-magical-time-of-year-1.3891640
18 Dec 2017 … Most of us appear to have book-related holiday traditions. And we add some reading suggestions for this Jólabókaflóð.
Iceland has a holiday tradition that has us all renewing our passports to get there. It’s Jólabókaflóð, the book flood of Christmas. It’s a tradition that dates from World War II import restrictions. …
https://www.thriftbooks.com/blog/bookish-holiday-traditions-from-iceland-to-your-home/
Dec 19, 2017 ─ Christian Science Monitor
Guests enjoy a traditional Icelandic Christmas dinner served by Hrannar Salka Snaebrá at the home he shares with his wife, Auður Ösp, during a Christmas tour on Dec. 4 in Reykjavik, Iceland.
Iceland‘s Christmas traditions derive from Norse paganism and a time when people, without electricity, were desperate to fend off darkness. With less than five hours of sunlight a day in winter, that longing remains, staved off by candles and the ‘Christmas book flood.’
https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2017/1219/Trolls-ogres-and-giant-cats-How-Iceland-celebrates-Christmas
28 Nov 2017 … by Rick Blechta
Before I get up on my Type M soapbox (always at the ready in a corner of my studio), you must read this article (Literary Iceland Revels in Its Annual Christmas Book Flood). …
And that’s when I read about Iceland‘s book tradition at this time of the year. At that point I thought about the people in my family. To the best of my knowledge, at least three of them seldom (or never) read books. That’s a depressing thing to consider. …
https://typem4murder.blogspot.com/2017/11/i-like-iceland-or-giftgiving-made-easy.html
May 5, 2020 ─ IcelandReview
To reach Hólar University in winter, you must drive through the ice-covered Hjaltadalur valley. On your way there, you’ll pass groups of horses in almost every colour of the rainbow. You’ll notice their thick and shaggy winter coat, and how they huddle together to keep warm. The snow on their furry backs might send a shiver down yours – but the horses have been here for a millennium, bred to survive the harsh conditions.
Like so many other horse-keeping traditions, it’s a method local farmers have practised for centuries, but now, thanks to Hólar University, they are doing the research to back them up. …
“There’s a lightness to the Icelandic tradition and the focus on the gaits. …”
https://www.icelandreview.com/society/raising-riders/
Museum of Skógar (August 8, 2005): https://www.flickr.com
27 Dec 2019 – Archyde
The deluge of Christmas books. It is the Icelandic tradition which consists in offering books and spending Christmas Eve reading at the corner of the tree. The “flood” begins with the publication of a catalog of books distributed free to all households in the country. … As the holidays approach, books fill the shelves and are even found next to frozen food in supermarkets.
Reading has long been a national sport in Iceland. After the United Kingdom, it is the country that publishes the most books per capita in the world. …
https://www.archyde.com/video-on-christmas-eve-in-iceland-we-read-lots-of-books/
Dec 20, 2018 ─ inhalton.com
Christmas is getting closer and closer.
Christmas is getting closer and closer. And as the special day draws near, you’ve probably been thinking about what you’re going to be doing on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, who you’re going to be seeing, and what traditions are going to be making their yearly appearances.
Regardless of whether you celebrate this holiday, everyone has traditions on Christmas. […]
4. Jolabokaflod
Translation (rough): Christmas book flood
Iceland
This Icelandic tradition is one that book lovers everywhere will in enjoy.
https://www.inhalton.com/top-5-christmas-traditions-youve-never-heard-of
11 Dec 2018 … Are you a food enthusiast or curious traveller? Let us whet your appetite and present you some of Iceland’s most popular dishes served on Christmas. If you are in Iceland during this festive season, you’re in for an unforgettable food experience! … Discover the Icelandic countryside. Comfortable accommodation in scenic locations, self-drive packages, guided tours and day tours all around Iceland.
Although many of Iceland‘s Christmas food traditions have been borrowed from Denmark, the hearty and sweet rye bread is all Icelandic and here is how to make it : …
https://www.heyiceland.is/blog/nanar/5218/an-iceland-inspired-christmas
Dec 16, 2016 ─ Atlas Obscura
Due to local post-mortem practices, it’d be a bit of an inconvenience.
In Burial Practice in Contemporary Iceland: Tradition and Conflict, Silke Schurack argues that the “tendency to hold on to traditions for the sake of these traditions […] may play some role in the cause for the lack of alternative burial options.” …
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/heading-to-iceland-just-make-sure-you-dont-die-there
26 Dec 2015 … Holidays are often imbued with tradition — personal traditions, family traditions, cultural traditions. My Christmas traditions involve family gathering to enjoy good food and opening gifts in front of the tree, as well as, of course, copious cookie baking. …
In Iceland, books are traditionally given as Christmas eve gifts, and people often stay up late into the night reading and eating chocolate. (I wrote about the Icelandic literary tradition here.) …
I wrote about some of the Czech Advent traditions, including the Lucys, who bang on your door wearing creepy stork-like masks, and Perchta, who threatens to slit open greedy children’s bellies and stuff them with pea plants.
https://deborahstearns.blogspot.com/2015/12/christmas-traditions-weird-and-wonderful.html
Dec 12, 2018 ─ The Nerd Daily
Jolabokaflod, also known as the Christmas Book Flood or Yule Book Flood, is the Icelandic tradition of giving books at Christmas time.
Like many other countries, Iceland has a holiday tradition of its own. It’s called “Jolabokaflod,” which can be translated as “Christmas Book Flood” or “Yule Book Flood,” and began during World War II. …
https://www.thenerddaily.com/jolabokaflod-iceland-christmas/
29 Jan 2020 … Now that the Christmas season has started many may wonder what Christmas is like in Iceland.
The first sign of Christmas in Iceland is four Sundays before Christmas day. That is when most families put up their advent candle wreath and light one candle each Sunday until Christmas. At the same time, they will put up an advent light in the window.
If you want to know more about each one of the Icelandic Jule-lads check out our blog series about them from last year. SaveSave. SaveSave.
https://www.tinna-adventure.is/icelandic-christmas-traditions/
Feb 4, 2019 ─ Guide to Iceland Now
Answers to the top 10 most asked questions about Icelandic names. Find out about how Icelanders are named and what rules they have to follow. Read more.
Naming traditions in Iceland are fascinating and might seem complicated to the outside eye. Icelandic people often get questions from foreigners about their names. …
https://guidetoiceland.is/history-culture/10-questions-about-icelandic-names-answered
22 Dec 2019 … Charleston born living in Atlanta. Unapologetically Southern. Thrifter extraordinaire. Style and design with thrifted finds. Co-host of #thriftwithus
Lat year I came across the tradition called Jolabokaflod, from Iceland. It is the tradition of giving books and chocolate on Christmas Eve. As soon as I read about it I knew it was for us!!
It is a fabulous tradition to start anytime but since Mollie is an adult and we don’t have small children around some of our past traditions that focus on Santa and reindeer have fallen away.
https://madebymolliesmom.blogspot.com/2019/12/i-started-new-to-us-christmas-tradition.html
5 Nov 2020 ─ Cruise Passenger
Oceania Cruises has revealed its 2022 Europe and North America collection of itineraries, which will go on sale on November 12. The 110 itineraries feature 76 new offerings and will visit 10 new ports. The 2022 Europe and North America itineraries range from seven to 14 days. Fifty-four voyages from 15 to 46 days have blended multiple continents into grand adventures.
Oceania is offering bespoke shore excursions at more than 250 ports of call throughout Northern and Western Europe, Iceland, Greenland, the Mediterranean, Greek Isles, Holy Lands, Alaska, Canada & New England, Bermuda, South America, and the Caribbean. …
Explore the unique cultural traditions and great outdoors of Alaska with glacier trekking, helicopter flightseeing and Go Local tours, plus more voyages cruising Hubbard Glacier with twelve convenient departures from Seattle, Vancouver, or Los Angeles, ranging from seven to 13 days in length …
https://cruisepassenger.com.au/oceania-unveils-its-2022-europe-and-north-america-itineraries/
The social and cultural history of the Nordic region (including Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Iceland and Greenland), as well as that of outlying former provinces such as Swedish Pomerania and the erstwhile Caribbean colonies, is examined in this unique study. Religious and spiritual values, family life and sexuality, health and hygiene, town and country and slavery in the tropical colonies are amongst the topics dealt with in some depth. At the same time, Neil Kent also provides an architectural and artistic history of the region.
- Тара [Tara]
December 21st, 2011 – ymblanter
25 июня 2011
Решение поехать в Тару, если подумать, было полнейшей авантюрой. Первый автобус из Омска (на Усть-Ишим) уходил в пол-восьмого и по расписанию шёл шесть часов. Обратно я рассчитывал уехать либо на 16:45, либо на 17:10. Скорее всего, с автовокзала в Омске по прибытии мне пришлось бы брать такси. …
June 25, 2011
The decision to go to Tara, if you think about it, was a complete gamble. The first bus from Omsk (to Ust-Ishim) left at half past seven and went on schedule for six hours. Back I expected to leave either at 16:45 or 17:10. Most likely, from the bus station in Omsk, upon arrival, I would have to take a taxi. … ─Google Translate
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https://ymblanter.livejournal.com/19677.html
Nov 13, 2020 ─ BC Sports – Misc.
How to watch National Dog Show 2020: Everything you need to know about the National Dog Show, which airs on Thanksgiving on NBC and the NBC Sports app.
During an uncertain and difficult year, some Thanksgiving traditions stay the same as the 2020 National Dog Show returns to NBC after the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade on Thursday, Nov. 26 at 12 p.m. local time. …
https://sports.nbcsports.com/2020/11/13/what-to-know-about-national-dog-show-2020-thanksgiving/
24 Jan 2019 … With the introduction of Christianity in Iceland in the year 1000, old heathen feasts and celebrations were replaced, or intertwined, with Christian ones. However, many of these old customs were revived during Iceland’s struggle for independence from Denmark in the 19th century. Now, Icelanders celebrate both the old and the new – and so can you. Here’s an introduction to some of Iceland’s many winter feasts. …
There are many old, traditions linked to the month of Þorri, the master of the house, for instance, was supposed to rise before the rest of the household and welcome Þorri with a special ceremony. …
https://icelandmag.is/article/heres-your-introduction-old-icelandic-winter-traditions
Aug 1, 2020 ─ Times Colonist
Iceland, with cinematic scenery showcasing nature in its rawest form, thrills outdoorsy travellers. Known for the midnight sun and northern lights, this fascinating island is equally famous for its magnificent glaciers and volcanoes.
Among the country’s unforgettable experiences is a tour into a dormant volcano. The Thríhnúkagígur volcano, a half-hour drive from Iceland‘s capital city Reykjavík, last erupted about 4,000 years ago. …
https://www.timescolonist.com/travel/rick-steves-iceland-thrills-naturally-1.24179948
15 Sep 2010 … Amber and I just returned from 10 days in Iceland! We went on the Knitting in the Wild North tour with the amazing ladies behind Knitting Iceland and knitwear designer Ysolda Teague. …
Iceland is the perfect place to visit for fiber lovers and knitters. Icelanders are very connected with their knitting traditions. The Icelandic sheep have supported Icelanders with meat and wool since the island was settled around 800 AD and are instrumental to surviving the difficult climate. …
https://fancytiger.blogspot.com/2010/09/knitting-iceland-part-1-reykjavik-and.html
Mar 4, 2019 ─ Reykjavík Grapevine
Bolladagur is Iceland‘s bun day where bakers all across the country will create belicious choux bun pasteries known as Bolla
This tradition is especially strong in young children, so please do have sympathy for any Icelandic parents you may come across today. There is a good chance that their day started with the waving of sticks and a chorus of “Bolla Bolla Bolla!” …
https://grapevine.is/news/2019/03/04/bolludagur-2019-icelands-bun-day/
11 Dec 2018 … For many of us, the holidays are full of new and old traditions. We are fascinated by the unique cultural differences and similarity between how women connect with family and friends at this celebratory time all around the world.
Read more. Read More. ‘Ciao Bella’ Blog. Browse Current Articles · AdventureWomen in the Press – 23 posts; Delicious Destinations – …
https://www.adventurewomen.com/blog/article/international-holiday-traditions/
Sep 3, 2020 ─ Ancient Origins
While digging at Arnarfjörður, archaeologists in Iceland have uncovered a 10th century longhouse, as well as evidence of truth within Icelandic sagas. … In 2013 archaeologists in Iceland came across an ash pile which led to excavations that began in 2017 at Arnarfjörður, near the church town Auðkúla in Iceland.
The once highly rich tradition of Icelandic books of magic of the 16th and the 17th centuries has survived only in a fragmentary state. Despite this fact, Icelandic folktales speak about the…
https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/arnarfjorour-0014200
2 Dec 2018 … Christmas Eve in Iceland. Yes. This does sound perfect. Via …
I think in may family that tradition would work best for the day after Christmas. Our Christmas day includes a dinner together and then we play charades. …
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https://contentinacottage.blogspot.com/2018/12/christmas-eve-in-iceland.html
Apr 25, 2020 ─ Ancient Origins
A new study shows that some Icelanders have Denisovan ancestry, paving the way for the genes to reach other European realms – perhaps ancient megalith sites too! … This week it was announced that a new genetic study published in the journal Nature shows that the genomes of over 27,000 Icelanders display an admixture of modern human and Neanderthal DNA, along with a noticeable trace of Denisovan ancestry that was not expected at all.
So Denisovan DNA among modern-day Icelanders either came from Neanderthals, through their own introgression with Denisovans, or, alternately, the ancestors of the Icelanders had themselves encountered Denisovans somewhere in the ancient world, this all taking place many thousands of years before the establishment of the first Viking colony on Iceland during the ninth century AD. …
Although this ring or circle of judgment was built only after the establishment on Iceland of the first Viking settlements, it forms part of a religious and cultural heritage that continued to unite Iceland not only with the megalithic traditions of Scandinavia, but also with the Dark Age and early medieval inhabitants of the Orkney Isles known as the Picts. …
https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-evolution-human-origins/denisovan-ancestry-0013617
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9 Jul 2020 – Go World Travel Magazine
Iceland is one of the most scenic destinations to explore. Here’s our Iceland travel guide with tips on where to go, what to see and do in Iceland.
Iceland Travel Guide │ Helpful Articles, Tips & Videos • Intro • Plan Your Trip • Top 10 Things to Do • Top Destinations • Latest Stories
Intro to Iceland
The site where two massive tectonic plates collide is home to an an incredible land of ice and fire – Iceland. …
Icelanders are trying hard to preserve their customs and traditions. And, yes, some of them still believe in trolls, elves, and other mythical creatures from Norse past. …
https://www.goworldtravel.com/iceland-travel-guide/
Jun 17, 2019 ─ Iceland Monitor
Today, the 17th of June, is the National Day of Iceland.
Since 1947, it ‘s been a tradition during the festivities of the day to have a so-called “Lady of the Mountains,” or fjallkonan, dressed in the national costume and symbolizing Iceland, address the public. …
https://icelandmonitor.mbl.is/news/culture_and_living/2019/06/17/today_is_national_day_of_iceland/
18 Dec 2018 … If you are planning to spend your holidays in Iceland then you should know some Icelandic Christmas traditions. Travel like a local in Iceland.
When I start thinking about Christmas I realize that we Icelanders have quite many Icelandic Christmas traditions, maybe some are not only Icelandic but traditions they are, no matter where they come from. …
https://localicelander.is/icelandic-christmas-traditions/
Dec 21, 2018 ─ Iceland Magazine
They say Christmas is the best time of the year and there‘s no denying that there are countless reasons to love the holiday. Christmas traditions vary from household to household, but there are a number of customs most Icelanders hold dear. Here‘s how Icelanders spend the holidays.
With Þorláksmessa also comes the smelly tradition of chowing down on some fermented skate, known as kæst skata in Icelandic. While enthusiasts for the dish rejoice, others are filled with feelings of dread – there is no escaping the ammonia fumes on Þorláksmessa as the strong-smelling dish is served in many restaurants and homes. …
https://icelandmag.is/article/how-do-christmas-icelander
10 Dec 2013 … The Geothermal Resources Council is the premier global association for the geothermal energy industry advancing geothermal development through education, research, and outreach … Geothermal Energy News from around the World.
Yet Iceland‘s classical music tradition remains barely known. This week, Donald Macleod explores the landscapes and vistas of the world’s most northerly island nation to discover its unique musical culture. …
https://geothermalresourcescouncil.blogspot.com/2013/12/iceland-audio.html
Dec 24, 2019 ─ Pulse Nigeria
Here are some of the weird Christmas traditions we found around the world.
1. Krampus (Bad Santa) from Austria · 2. Yule cat from Iceland · 3. Fried Caterpillars from South Africa · 4. Flying witches from Norway · 5. Cobweb Christmas from Ukraine
https://www.pulse.ng/lifestyle/food-travel/christmas-weird-traditions-from-around-the-world/61y4hlp
Ready to shake up your family’s Christmas Eve traditions? Try out Jólabókaflóð: Iceland‘s Christmas Eve book tradition. Step 1: Gift books to your friends and family members. Step 2: Spend the evening reading! …
Iceland might be the best place in the world to be a book lover—and Christmas in Iceland might be the best time of year.
https://www.readitforward.com/essay/article/jolabokaflod-meet-favorite-new-holiday-tradition/
Find out what people eat in Iceland. Read about popular food & traditional cuisine in Iceland. See Icelandic dishes you could try on your trip.
The tradition of baking flatkaka is believed to go back to settlement-times when it was baked on hot stones or straight on the fire’s embers. … Read more about Icelandic Christmas Traditions here …
https://guidetoiceland.is/history-culture/food-in-iceland
25 Feb 2007 … This is a very healthy, nourishing soup.
Iceland moss (Cetraria islandica) is very versatile. In spite of the name, it isn’t a moss at all, but a lichen. It’s used in cosmetics (especially creams and ointments), medicines and nutritional supplements (it is an excellent remedy for coughs and digestive problems), and as food. In the past it was also used for colouring wool.
https://icecook.blogspot.com/2007/02/iceland-moss-soup-fjallagrasamjlk.html
Feb 16, 2020 ─The Points Guy
These are the smaller or less-popular-but-equally-amazing places to visit no more than a few hours by air or land from Reykjavik so you can maximize your itinerary. … Welcome to TPG‘s series, Second Cities. The series is designed to help you find smaller or less-popular-but-equally-amazing places to visit no more than a few hours by air or land from your original destination so you can maximize your itinerary.
Once an isolated speck of land in the North Atlantic, Iceland is now an international hot spot. …
Take a 20-minute drive to Suðureyri for a food tour that explores the area’s culinary traditions, or head 20 minutes in the other direction, to the town of Súðavík, where the nonprofit Arctic Fox Center has exhibits on Iceland’s only native land mammal. …
https://thepointsguy.com/news/reykjavik-second-cities/
Amazon U.S. • Old Icelandic Literature and Society (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature)
This book provides a comprehensive account of Old Icelandic literature within its social context. An international team of specialists examines the ways in which the unique medieval social experiment in Iceland, a kingless society without an established authority structure, inspired a wealth of innovative writing composed in the Icelandic vernacular. The book shows how Icelanders explored their uniqueness through poetry, mythologies, metrical treatises, religious writing, and through saga, a new genre that textualized their history and incorporated oral traditions in a written form.
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8 августа 2020 – Fancy Freckles
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August 8, 2020
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https://fancy-freckles.livejournal.com/230790.html
Nov 9, 2017 ─ Vogue.com
Yes, there’s fermented shark, but also a lot more delectable options.
But most people don’t have a clue what to expect when it comes to Icelandic food.
Like in most of Scandinavia, the cuisine is entirely inspired by the ingredients Icelanders have around them, from the free-roaming sheep to the cod, herring, and char that splash around the cold Arctic waters. …
https://www.vogue.com/article/what-to-eat-in-iceland-local-food
30 Oct 2014 … Iceland – an ethereal land of glaciers, geysers, live volcanoes and ancient lava fields – matches its extreme geology with some bizarre traditional cuisine it would take a Viking to stomach. The most famous of these is a dish that translates as “putrefied shark,” but is otherwise known as “rotten” or, more kindly, “fermented” shark. Not all Icelandic food is disgusting, mind you, but this article explores a few more oddities before turning to the good news about truly delicious New Nordic Cuisine. …
https://www.10best.com/interests/food-travel/icelands-crazy-culinary-traditions/
Nov 16, 2020 ─ Canada NewsWire
SEATTLE, Nov. 16, 2020 /CNW/ – Hurtigruten is giving all travel advisors the exclusive opportunity to provide clients with early access to their biggest sale of the year, offering up to 50% off* select 2021 – 2022 itineraries. …
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https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/hurtigruten-announces-black-friday-early-launch-exclusively-available-to-travel-advisors-842090238.html
17 Dec 2018 … Where luxury travel advisors share their wealth of knowledge, quest for adventure, and countless personal travel experiences from around the world
No doubt your family has cherished holiday traditions, and we hope you have a safe and happy holiday season filled with on-time connections and free of travel delays.
Another Icelandic tradition is the Jolabokaflod, “Christmas book flood,” when people give books to each other as gifts, prompting a wave of new releases in the months before Christmas. …
https://largaytravel.blogspot.com/2018/12/christmas-traditions-around-world.html
November 16, 2020
Netflix is working on a sequel to Nordic noir series Trapped with public broadcasters in Iceland and Germany.
From Icelandic filmmaker Baltasar Kormákur, Entrapped is currently in production in Iceland and will launch on the streamer in 2021. …
“The show will keep on tackling crimes in Iceland through its unique setting, bringing stories of our beloved main characters and their search for justice in a country deeply rooted in its traditions.”.
https://www.c21media.net/netflix-gets-entrapped-with-ruv-zdf/
9 Apr 2020 … Epic travel guides to save you time and make your Iceland trip unforgettable.
Icelanders LOVE Easter and have some unique festivities to celebrate the holiday! In this video, I talk about my FAVORITE tradition – the Chocolate Easter Egg! You don’t want to miss what’s inside of these delicious eggs.
SUBSCRIBE for new Iceland tips every week! …
https://icelandwithaview.com/iceland-easter-traditions/
Nov 13, 2020 ─ Virginian-Pilot
When just the fillets are used, as is typical in New Zealand and other places like the United States, that means only about one-third of a fish is eaten, said Sam Woolford, who runs LegaSea, an organization in Auckland concerned with destructive fishing techniques and the underuse of what is caught.
He pointed to Iceland, where there is a push to use 100% of cod that are caught, with bones turned into calcium supplements and skins destined for handbags. …
Hotene, 48, who runs the Papatuanuku Kokiri Marae with his partner of 29 years, Valerie Teraitua, 44, said his organization was trying to reconnect Maori to their cultural traditions, including through food.
https://www.pilotonline.com/coronavirus/sns-nyt-new-zealand-pandemic-hunger-20201113-bnl7mqcf7zdstkznunryxw4niq-story.html
30 Jun 2010 … “Smash the State!” is the slogan for the anarchists.
Here the “State” is defined as the institutionalized government that claims a monopoly on the legitimized use of force over a certain territory (to use Max Weber’s famous definition). …
Some of his people fled his rule and found their way to Iceland, where they established a social system based on Norwegian traditions, but without a king or any centralized executive authority. …
https://darwinianconservatism.blogspot.com/2010/06/smash-state-anarchism-in-medieval.html
November 14, 2020 ─ Berkshire Eagle
Just when things were starting to get back to normal, COVID-19 reared its ugly head and is on a rampage again. …
The Fly Fishing Shows are some of the most anticipated gatherings annually because they are when our community can see what’s new, test products, make purchases, book travel, renew friendships and reignite the fire that drives us all to carry on the traditions of fly fishing. …
Anglers frequently book flyfishing trips to Labrador, Iceland and other exotic places. …
https://www.berkshireeagle.com/sports/local_sports/gene-chague-berkshire-woods-and-waters-pandemic-roars-back-raising-havoc-with-outdoor-sportsmen/article_bf003cca-2487-11eb-a9a4-5bdb4bf0476d.html
Vefarinn Dance Group, Dansfélagið Vefarinn in Traditional Icelandic Men’s and Women’s clothing: https://www.leifnorman.net
My documentary film will be exploring Icelandic christmas traditions and celebrations, focussing especially on the Jólasveinar or ‘Yule lads’. For my documentary I have interviewed Gunnar Már who grew up in the Reykjavík, Iceland, about these aspects of Christmas traditions as well as his personal experiences of Christmas in Iceland. We also discussed what effects the media from other countries has on these traditions, such as how Santa Claus has started to gain popularity in Iceland due to influences from American television, and how songs from other countries have been translated into Icelandic. …
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https://mianimationblog.wordpress.com/2019/09/22/documentary-proposal-for-film-5/
Jordan Henderson and Raheem Sterling will miss England’s Nations League fixture against Iceland on Wednesday, the Football Association has announced. …
Academia remains “one of our most vulnerable sectors because its traditions of openness, and the importance of international exchanges to the free flow of ideas, leave it vulnerable to PRC exploitation”, the department said. …
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/englands-henderson-stirling-iceland-match-204724498.html
13 Oct 2011 … Iceland‘s sagas lie at the heart of the island nation’s modern culture. The tiny country’s oral traditions were a main form of entertainment when only a few thousand people were spread out across the island. …
Kenyan author Ngugi wa Thiong’o, a favorite for the 2010 Nobel Prize, compares the sagas of with the oral traditions of Africa, JRR Tolkien emulated sagas in his Lord of the Rings cycle and the Argentinean Jorge Louis Borges had a quote from one carved on his grave stone.
https://www.dw.com/en/rich-tradition-of-sagas-form-heart-of-modern-iceland/a-15454957
November 3, 2020 ─ The Foreign Service Journal
Here are recent books of interest to the foreign affairs community that were not written by members of the Foreign Service.
These traditions frame a review of post–Cold War presidencies, which the author foresees serving as guideposts for the future. …
Her experience in the world of diplomacy began when her husband, Charles Cobb, was appointed ambassador to Iceland and culminated when she was named U.S. envoy to Jamaica in 2001. …
https://www.afsa.org/of-related-interest-2020
10 Oct 2014 … I’m not being very efficient at blogging retrospectively about my North Atlantic trip, but I’ll plod on. As I get older I’m becoming more and more aware of how fragile memories are, and of how valuable the act of recording is in anchoring my recollections. …
There were no indigenous settlers in Iceland so that consequently there’s an unquestioned sense of ownership of Iceland‘s history and traditions.
https://lyns-shadesofgrey.blogspot.com/2014/10/iceland.html
Wednesday 11 November 2020 ─ Sky Sports
Domenec Torrent’s failure to replace Jorge Jesus at Flamengo raises questions about why Brazilian clubs turned to Europe in the first place. With the help of those in Brazil, Adam Bate explores how the most successful nation on earth came to look abroad
A lack of imagination in midfield has been a feature of Brazilian football for years now. It is seen as a betrayal of the country’s traditions but may well be a natural consequence of another – trigger-happy presidents pushing coaches to be more defensive. …
https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11095/12122604/brazil-is-turning-to-europe-for-coaches-but-what-happened-to-the-brazilians
Sep 30, 2016 – Ties to old traditions and superstitions are strong in Iceland even some that seem normal in Iceland that might look strange to an outsider.
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Apr 14, 2020 ─ Reykjavík Grapevine
This iteration of Icelandic Superstitions dives into the bizarre rituals surrounding handball in Iceland. How do you feel about sadistic spanking? We’re in.
This BDSM initially might seem like more of a tradition rather than a superstition, but hey—Icelandic handball won an Olympic medal.
https://grapevine.is/icelandic-culture/2020/04/14/icelandic-superstitions-bubbi-morthens-sadistic-spanking/
18 Sep 2011 … Rune at work photographing Eiríksjökull
My pursuit of the outlaw Grettir Ásmundarson and his trails across and around Iceland has been continuing over the past week. …
Whatever the ‘truth’, I still find the extent that, all over Iceland, there are such traditions associating saga-characters with specific places in the landscape and borne out by place-names, riveting. …
https://sagasteads.blogspot.com/2011/09/grettirs-headand-his-familys-strandir.html
Mar 13, 2020 ─ Reykjavík Grapevine
While more recently studying Icelandic, however, I ran into some difficulty finding a book to read that augment my vocabulary. Then I found ‘Árstíðir’…
At the same time, ‘Árstíðir’ gives insight into Icelandic values, traditions, and everyday life, with stories about such traditions as Þorrablót, dancing around the Christmas tree, allowing babies to sleep outside in strollers, and going to ‘réttir’ to see the sheep roundup. …
https://grapevine.is/icelandic-culture/literature-and-poetry/2020/03/13/karitas-hrundar-palsdottirs-arstidir-learning-icelandic-through-literature/
July 5, 2017 ─ Photo Polygon
For the captured Vietcong … there is no equivication. They are firmly set in the honorable tradition of sacrificing one’s life for one’s country.
Для захваченных вьетконговцев не существует просьб о пощаде. Они твердо следуют благородной традиции принесения в жертву жизни для страны.
THE BATTLES FOR SAIGON. At Tet and again in May, the Vietcong struck Saigon. They aimed at the middle-class districts that were duly destroyed by United States firepower.
СРАЖЕНИЯ ЗА САЙГОН. Во время праздника Тет и снова в мае Вьетконг ударил по Сайгону. Они нацелились на районы проживания среднего класса, которые были должным образом разрушены огневой мощью Соединенных Штатов …
https://photo-polygon.livejournal.com/549074.html
Dec 19, 2016 ─ Smithsonian
The Jólakötturinn will make you thankful for those Christmas socks
According to Icelandic tradition, anyone who finished their chores before Christmas would get new clothes as a reward. Meanwhile, lazy children who didn’t get their work done would have to face the Jólakötturinn. …
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/each-christmas-icelands-yule-cat-takes-fashion-policing-extreme-180961420/
3 Jun 2019 … Find out how residents celebrate traditional Icelandic Christmas in Iceland and prepare for local Christmas traditions and customs.
Are you spending Christmas in Iceland? You should learn about Iceland‘s Christmas traditions. First of all, “Merry Christmas and a happy New Year” in Icelandic means “Gleðileg jól og farsælt komandi ár!”
When planning a vacation during Christmas in Iceland, it is always helpful for visitors and travelers to get acquainted with local Icelandic Christmas traditions and different customs. …
https://www.tripsavvy.com/icelands-christmas-traditions-1626413
Apr 10, 2019 ─ IcelandReview
Tourists strolling through downtown Reykjavík today may be surprised to come upon groups of costumed teenagers in high spirits, cavorting about the streets. The reason is a decades-old tradition called dimmisjón (sometimes spelled dimmition or dimission), a celebration that senior students across the country take part in around one month before their graduation. Due to shortening the school program from four years to three, this year there are two classes graduating simultaneously, which means there have never been more costume-clad youngsters wandering around town.
In Iceland, after completing compulsory education at the age of 16, the overwhelming majority of students attend a non-compulsory “framhaldsskóli,” a sort of junior college, between the ages of 16 and 19. …
Though dimmisjón traditions vary from school to school, celebrations tend to last all day. …
https://www.icelandreview.com/news/costumed-teens-run-wild-in-reykjavik/
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Dec 23, 2019 ─ International Investment
If you celebrate Christmas, spending time away from home, family and friends can be tough at this time of year. And when you’re spending it in a country that celebrates the festive season in an entirely different way, or not at all, it’s easy to feel like you’re missing out. …
The locals in Iceland don’t dine on turkey, though. The tradition is to eat pork on Christmas Eve, with smoked lamb and a flatbread decorated with seasonal patterns on the side. …
https://www.internationalinvestment.net/opinion/4008551/comment-spend-expat-christmas-abroad
4 Aug 2017 … We talk about Iceland from the inside out. We share experiences which will change your life for ever. A journey that you will never forget.
Become a responsible tourist and take The Icelandic Pledge. Encourage your friends to do the same. You could even win a trip to Iceland.
Iceland Christmas Holidays, One of the Best Times to Visit Iceland and Experience Icelandic Traditions
https://creativeiceland.is/creative-iceland-travel-blog
Dec 23, 2019 ─ Iceland Monitor
Ásatrúarfélagið, an association of Icelanders who believe in the Nordic gods, celebrated winter solstice yesterday, Morgunblaðið reports. In heathen times, winter solstice was a celebration of light in Iceland, and this day continues to be celebrated by members of Ásatrúarfélagið.
They gathered by their temple in Öskjuhlíð, Reykjavík, holding torches and outdoor candles. …
https://icelandmonitor.mbl.is/news/culture_and_living/2019/12/23/celebrating_light_and_brighter_days/
24 Dec 2018 … Happy Jolabokaflod! Iceland‘s “Christmas Book Flood.” The tradition of exchanging books on Christmas Eve then spending the rest of the night reading. …
“The culture of giving books as present is very deeply rooted in how families perceive Christmas as a holiday,” says Kristjan B. Jonasson, president of the Iceland Publishers Association. “Normally, we give the presents on the night of the 24th and people spend the night reading. …” …
https://jesslovestoread.blogspot.com/2017/12/happy-jolabokaflod.html
“I learned that none of my eggs were viable on Memorial Day, in the midst of a global pandemic,” she wrote.
Iceland, Asda and Aldi among supermarkets selling meat from pigs … Britain to discover how scents have moulded communities and traditions.
https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/lena-dunham-unsuccessful-ivf-journey-motherhood-101237818.html
Pólo og Erla Stefansdóttir from Akureyri, Iceland: https://www.youtube.com
9 Nov 2019 | Gangleri’s Grove
I love books. I am an avid bibliophile with a serious literary habit. As such, I just love the tradition in Iceland called the Jolabokaflod (Yule Book Flood) where people buy books for themselves, and as gifts.
The tradition originated during World War II when foreign imports were restricted, but paper was cheap. Iceland’s population was not large enough to support a year-round publishing industry. …
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https://krasskova.wordpress.com/2019/11/29/increase-your-book-hoard-📙📚-😍/2
Nov 14 2020 ─ Deccan Herald
Leo Mulipola found a lifeline in a load of fish heads.
Mulipola, 49, has struggled to find even an entry-level job at a gas station during the coronavirus pandemic and is now unemployed. So, with a household of six to feed, he jumped at the chance to pick up donated snapper and bluenose heads at a Maori community hall in Auckland.
The hall, known as a marae in the Maori language, has been distributing 2 tons of fish a week — the parts often discarded in commercial and recreational fishing — to families affected by New Zealand’s sputtering economy.
He pointed to Iceland, where there is a push to use 100% of cod that are caught, with bones turned into calcium supplements and skins destined for handbags. …
Hotene, 48, who runs the Papatuanuku Kokiri Marae with his partner of 29 years, Valerie Teraitua, 44, said his organization was trying to reconnect Maori to their cultural traditions, including through food.
https://www.deccanherald.com/specials/a-solution-to-covid-19-pandemic-hunger-eyeballs-and-all-915392.html
17 Jan 2017 … Historically, hunting seabirds has been a distinctive feature of Nordic coastal culture. Should it still be?
A wheel of wings spins around Grímsey Island, Iceland‘s northernmost outpost. This eyebrow of land 40 kilometers above the mainland crosses the Arctic Circle. …
Egevang, a researcher for the Greenland Institute of Natural Resources in Nuuk, Greenland, is traveling around the North Atlantic studying Old Norse traditions that are now declining along with the seabirds. …
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/uncertain-future-puffin-dinner-180961829/
Tuesday, 17 November 2020 ─ National Geographic UK
This year brings exciting new tours to Turkey, Greenland and Argentina, and with a total solar eclipse in Antarctica, an unforgettable adventure is on the cards. …
For Brits, reaching Greenland by air has traditionally been a rather convoluted process, with travellers needing to arrive via either Iceland or Denmark. …
Due to its remoteness, Svan culture evolved over the centuries in isolation from the rest of Georgian lands, developing a unique oral-only language and traditions such as ritual beard cutting and blood feuds.
https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/travel/2020/11/best-of-the-world-2021-adventure
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Iceland is a special place with an array of holiday traditions that are as unique as the island its self. In Iceland, the Christmas festivit.
https://wheretogoiniceland.blogspot.com/search/?q=Iceland+Last+Name+Tradition
Posted: 17 Nov 2020 ─ ReliefWeb
English News and Press Release on World about Health and Protection and Human Rights; published on 16 Nov 2020 by UN GA …
The representative of Qatar said her country views operative paragraph 31 from the perspective of national laws and in accordance with its traditions. …
The Committee then took up the draft resolution titled “Human rights treaty body system” (A/C.3/75/L.39), which was introduced by the representative of Iceland, on behalf of Belgium and Slovenia.
https://reliefweb.int/report/world/third-committee-approves-11-drafts-among-them-4-covering-women-s-rights-omnibus-text
22 Dec 2017 … 13 formerly human-eating santa clauses, elf children and christmas songs about Sleeping Beauty. Check out these Icelandic Christmas traditions!
Except if they don’t celebrate Christmas, but that’s besides the point. Here are 13 Icelandic Christmas facts and traditions.
Iceland has been Christian since the year 1000 (or 999, we‘re not completely sure) …
https://arcticnaturehotel.com/iceland-christmas/
Wednesday, 21st October 2020 ─ Blackpool Gazette
Whether it’s exploring remote wonders in Greenland and Iceland, enjoying the best Southern Asia has to offer, or roaming the great outdoors in Australia, unexpected cruise destinations are lined up for 2021/2022. …
Exclusive tours of New and Old Delhi reveal deep rooted culture and traditions.
https://www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk/read-this/sail-away-pick-cruises-unexpected-destinations-3011091
30 May 2016 … EXTREME CONTRASTS
Iceland is a country of extreme contrasts. Widely known as “The Land of Fire and Ice”, Iceland is home to some of the world’s most active volcanoes. …
Iceland is also a very young country with old traditions. In fact, it is the youngest landmass in Europe with the continent’s oldest parliament, formed in 930 AD. Þingvellir, the site of said parliament, is a designated UNESCO world heritage site. …
https://sutetstory.blogspot.com/2016/05/get-to-know-iceland_30.html
Tue, 17 November 2020 ─ Yahoo News UK
Fox News media analyst and host of ‘Media Buzz’ Howard Kurtz joins ‘special Report’ with the latest.
Iceland, Asda and Aldi among supermarkets selling meat from pigs … a time when royal traditions and protocol was more strictly adhered to.
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/media-taking-easy-president-elect-234912098.html
Amazon U.S. • Jón Leifs and the Musical Invention of Iceland (Music, Nature, Place)
In Jón Leifs and the Musical Invention of Iceland, Árni Heimir Ingólfsson provides a striking account of the dramatic career of Iceland’s iconic composer. Leifs (1899–1968) was the first Icelander to devote himself fully to composition at a time when a local music scene was only beginning to take form. He was a fervent nationalist in his art, fashioning an idiosyncratic and uncompromising ‘Icelandic’ sound from traditions of vernacular music with the aim to legitimize Iceland as an independent, culturally empowered nation.
In addition to exploring Leifs’s career, Ingólfsson provides detailed descriptions of Leifs’s major works and their cultural contexts. Leifs’s music was inspired by the Icelandic landscape and includes auditory depictions of volcanos, geysers, and waterfalls. The raw quality of his orchestral music is frequently enhanced by an expansive percussion section, including anvils, stones, sirens, bells, ships’ chains, shotguns, and cannons.
Largely neglected in his own lifetime, Leifs’s music has been rediscovered in recent years and hailed as a singular and deeply original contribution to twentieth-century music. Jón Leifs and the Musical Invention of Iceland enriches our understanding and appreciation of Leifs and his music by exploring the political, literary and environmental contexts that influenced his work.
- Иран: Нишапур (мавзолеи Омара Хайяма, Аттара) [Iran: Nishapur (mausoleums of Omar Khayyam, Attar)]
23rd-May-2017 – Diary of a visionary – dead but dreaming
Тегеран – Машхад – Казвин и Аламут – Рашт и Масуле – Чалус – Баку
Уже в компании М., который присоединился к нам с О., мы отправились в древний город Нишапур, в сотне километров на запад от Машхада посреди пустыни. Город когда-то был даже столицей Ирана, но с тех пор много чего поменялось, и сейчас там несколько значимых мавзолеев, святилище неизвестному местному святому, отреставрированный караван-сарай, и просто иранский город со всеми его атрибутами – беспорядочным нагромождением зданий и базаром. …
Tehran – Mashhad – Qazvin and Alamut – Rasht and Masule – Chalus – Baku
Already in the company of M., who joined us with O., we went to the ancient city of Nishapur, a hundred kilometers west of Mashhad in the middle of the desert. The city was once even the capital of Iran, but since then a lot of things have changed, and now there are several significant mausoleums, a sanctuary for an unknown local saint, a restored caravanserai, and just an Iranian city with all its attributes – a disorderly heap of buildings and a bazaar. … ─Google Translate
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Tue, 17 November 2020 ─ Yahoo News UK
The Government is encouraging people to improve ventilation in their homes by opening windows as part of a new coronavirus campaign. A video released by the Department for Health illustrates how virus particles linger in enclosed spaces, but letting fresh air in can reduce the risk of infection by over 70%. Coronavirus is spread through the air by droplets and smaller particles known as aerosols when they are exhaled from the nose and mouth of an infected person as they breathe, speak or cough. …
Iceland, Asda and Aldi among supermarkets selling meat from pigs … a time when royal traditions and protocol was more strictly adhered to.
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/government-winter-coronavirus-campaign-encourages-000100087.html
27 Nov 2018 … Iceland has a charming literary Christmas tradition called Jólabókaflóð (pronounced yo-luh-BOK-uh-flot; the o’s have the long Ō sound), which in English literally means “Yule Book Flood.” This exciting season begins each year in mid-November, when the Icelandic book industry distributes their catalog, the Bókatíðindi (literally “book news”). A free copy of this catalog is sent to every home in Iceland and is also available online. The fun begins when the Bókatíðindi becomes available and the Icelanders get the opportunity to look through it to decide which books they will give to friends and family for Christmas. …
https://www.sttammanylibrary.org/blogs/post/icelands-christmas-book-giving-tradition/
18th November 2020 ─ Skyscanner News
From quirky decorations to delicious dinners, these Christmas traditions from around the world will bring global flair to your festivities.
Jolabokaflod, Iceland
Christmas traditions around the world: gifting books and reading in Iceland (jolabokaflod)
The Jolabokaflod – Christmas book flood – refers to the Icelandic custom of giving people books as a gift on Christmas Eve. …
https://www.skyscanner.net/news/christmas-traditions-around-world
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The vernacular architectural tradition in Iceland dates back to the settlement in the 9th century. …”
https://worldheritagetentativelist.blogspot.com/2013/09/iceland-turf-house-tradition.html
Wed, 18 November 2020 ─ Yahoo News UK
Rather than build a traditional snowman after the first snowfall in St John’s, Newfoundland, on November 15, two friends created something a little more fitting of 2020 – a coronavirus snowball.
Jo-Ann Murphy recorded this video of her daughter and her friend’s creation, which was dubbed the “Corona Ball,” and their attempts to destroy it. Murphy told Storyful the Corona Ball felt more appropriate for 2020 and they thought it’d be fun to try and destroy it. …
… a time when royal traditions and protocol was more strictly adhered to. … Iceland, Asda and Aldi among supermarkets selling meat from pigs …
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/canadian-kids-create-coronavirus-snowball-151828076.html
24 Feb 2020 … In Iceland we celebrate the so called Bolludagur or Bun-day Monday. It’s probably exactly what you picture when you hear the word Bun-day; people eating buns, right? But the tradition is not as simple as it sounds. Before I explain, let me first tell you about those delicious buns.
Picture choux pastry, sliced through the middle, filled with cream and jam and topped with chocolate, caramel or sugar. …
Who said traditions ever made sense?
https://www.helloiceland.is/2020/02/the-curious-icelandic-tradition-bolludagur-or-bun-day/
Wed, 18 November 2020 ─ Yahoo News UK
A merchant ship believed to be from the 1800s was discovered on a beach in St. Johns County, Florida over the weekend.
… a time when royal traditions and protocol was more strictly adhered to. … Iceland, Asda and Aldi among supermarkets selling meat from pigs …
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/19th-century-ship-appears-florida-103220728.html
23 Sep 2016 … Ancient Origins
The Vikings’ next step out into the Atlantic – the discovery and settlement of Iceland – is one of the best documented events of the Viking Age. …
A page from a skin manuscript of Landnámabók, a primary source on the settlement of Iceland. (Public Domain)
Ari relied on oral traditions and, for more recent events, on eyewitnesses, but he took care to establish the reliability of his informants, naming many of them, and avoiding Christian prejudice and supernatural explanations of events. …
https://maryannbernal.blogspot.com/2016/09/the-viking-discovery-of-iceland.html
Wed, 18 November 2020 ─ Yahoo News UK
Smoke rising from a coronavirus hospital in Moscow was caused by a loss of pressure in an oxygen tank at a building under construction and no staff or patients had been at risk, the city’s health department said on Wednesday.
Witnesses told television channel NTV that a loud bang had been followed by smoke billowing from one of the buildings at the Kommunarka hospital complex, one of Moscow’s main coronavirus centres.
… a time when royal traditions and protocol was more strictly adhered to. … Iceland, Asda and Aldi among supermarkets selling meat from pigs …
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/smoke-rising-coronavirus-hospital-moscow-154501390.html
Traditional Icelandic Turf Houses: https://www.wander-lust.nl
23 Aug 2020 – Vík Expeditions
Can you believe many Icelandic traditions date back over 600 years ago? Very interesting ones too we would love to uncover for you today…
Believe it or not settlements in Iceland date back to 874. Historical evidence also shows Gaelic monks may have settles long before that date. So to say the country has a long history of old Icelandic traditions would be an understatement! Today I would love to share with you some of the oldest and most interesting…
Christmas is one of the most important and most celebrated holidays in Iceland. Firstly, Christmas lights begin to be put up in November and stay up until February to brighten up the dark days. …
https://vikexpeditions.com/2020/old-icelandic-traditions/
Wed, 18 November 2020 ─ Yahoo News UK
A man has been arrested in connection with the murders of 21 people in the 1974 pub bombings in Birmingham. The arrest comes just days before the 46th anniversary of the two deadly November 21 blasts which ripped apart the Mulberry Bush and Tavern in the Town pubs.
… a time when royal traditions and protocol was more strictly adhered to. … Iceland, Asda and Aldi among supermarkets selling meat from pigs …
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/man-arrested-connection-1974-birmingham-141017950.html
23 Dec 2019 … Your guide to Christmas in Iceland: find out everything about Icelandic Christmas food, Yule Lads, 13 days of Christmas, a vicious black cat and the book flood! …
Iceland is one of the top destinations for people who love Christmas and enjoy holiday traditions. …
Icelanders have a lot of deep-rooted Christmas traditions. …
https://totallyiceland.is/culture/icelandic-christmas-traditions/
November 18, 2020 ─ The Daily Progress
At Virginia Discovery MuseumThere’s still time for students ages 4 and older to sign up for Winter Traditions Around the World, a virtual STEAM series that dives into the different ways in which people celebrate the holidays. …
It’s a chance to learn about Iceland‘s Yule Cat and Mexico’s Night of the Radishes, among other festive traditions. The series is $60 per family; supplies are $30 per child. …
https://dailyprogress.com/entertainment/buzz-kids-savor-some-online-history-and-holiday-lessons/article_6d22d54e-27e7-11eb-a396-fb6fa9cbbb63.html
9 Mar 2014 … 9am sunrise on what would be my favorite day of the whole vacation.
Everything about Iceland was new. It’s the farthest north I’ve ever been. …
She told us about growing up in Iceland, and tied in many local stories, customs, traditions… She told us about the government there, the population, the natural landscape… …
https://swimeatrepeat.blogspot.com/2014/03/england-and-iceland-day-8.html
Tue, 17 November 2020 ─ Yahoo News UK
‘The Ingraham Angle’ host reviews Democratic authorities’ tightened coronavirus restrictions for the holiday season.
… a time when royal traditions and protocol was more strictly adhered to. … Iceland, Asda and Aldi among supermarkets selling meat from pigs …
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/ingraham-democrats-want-shame-canceling-035650758.html
19 Dec 2016 … reykjavikexcursions:
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Jökulsárlón in south Iceland is one of those peaceful places where it is always tranquil, even if there are a lot of people about #iceland #reyex …
https://blog.re.is/post/154673354004/icelandic-christmas-traditions
Jun 20, 2020 ─ TravelPulse
To encourage the return of tourism, tour operators want to cover the cost of Iceland’s mandatory COVID-19 tests for inbound foreign visitors.
Iceland will be among the first places to reopen its borders to international travelers post-pandemic. The Nordic nation relies rather heavily on tourism revenue, and the impact of COVID-19-related travel bans was substantial. …
https://www.travelpulse.com/news/tour-operators/icelandic-tour-companies-covering-tourists-covid-19-tests.html
9 Mar 2014 … A blog about orca research, conservation and education. …
The majority of whale meat sales in restaurants are to tourists, many of whom are under the impression that eating whale is part of the Icelandic tradition. This is a fallacy as whaling has only been occurring in Iceland since the 1950’s. The IFAW ‘Meet Us Don’t Eat Us’ campaign is working to raise awareness about this issue.
https://bdmlr-orcaaware.blogspot.com/2014/03/icelandic-orca-saga.html
Tue, 17 November 2020 ─ Yahoo Finance UK
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Iceland, Asda and Aldi among supermarkets selling meat from pigs … Britain to discover how scents have moulded communities and traditions.
https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/bank-cyprus-holdings-plc-date-101057439.html
- БОСХ И БРЕЙГЕЛЬ СТАРШИЙ :: ОБЩИЕ ТЕМЫ [Bosch and Brueghel the Elder :: GENERAL TOPICS]
Apr. 19th, 2009 ─ jaga_lux, в реальной жизни Наталья [jaga_lux, in real life Natalia]
Влюбленные – они в волшебном шаре навсегда…
Босх и Брейгель, как часто эти два имени объединяются в нашем воображении, хотя, казалось бы, они отличаются, и тематически и художественно. Но есть одно – ирония, смех над миром, причем часто Брейгель смотрит на мир сквозь призму Босха, иногда только одного какого-то персонажа. …
Lovers – they are in a magic ball forever …
Bosch and Bruegel, how often these two names are combined in our imagination, although it would seem that they are different, both thematically and artistically. But there is one thing – irony, laughter at the world, and Bruegel often looks at the world through the prism of Bosch, sometimes only one character. … ─Google Translate
tradition. Traditions.
https://jaga-lux.livejournal.com/134315.html
Tue, November 17, 2020 ─ Yahoo! Voices
Mark Aronchick, an attorney representing four Pennsylvania counties as the Trump campaign continues disputing the results of the election, found himself going head-to-head with President Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giulaini in federal court on Tuesday, and Aronchick was not impressed with the argument Giuliani put forth. Aronchick said that Giuliani failed to prove any conspiracy or fraud.
The Thanksgiving tradition is back, with some socially-distant safety … England vs Iceland LIVE: Nations League score, goals and latest …
https://www.yahoo.com/now/pennsylvania-lawyer-said-giuliani-absurd-073921766.html
1 Mar 2015 … Reykjavík’s biggest shopping street is littered with abandoned babies sleeping in their strollers. …
their children sleep outside, and a new tradition suddenly emerged. The second generation of Icelanders in the 20th century napped outside, …
It seems that website Quartz is insisting on the visitor having a membership in order to access this old article. Well, provided that the link remains valid, you can access the same article for free at https://cloudmind.info here. ─Garnet H.G. Barcelo
https://qz.com/351821/for-generations-icelandic-babies-have-napped-in-sub-zero-temperatures-outside/
Jan 22, 2019 ─ Iceland Magazine
The religion of the original Viking settlers of Iceland, the old Norse paganism Ásatrú, is not just still alive and well in Iceland, it is undergoing something of a renaissance. Here is our quick guide to the current state of Ásatrú, the ancient religion of the Vikings, in Iceland.
1. It was abandoned in favor of Christianity in the year 1000 …
https://icelandmag.is/article/11-things-know-about-present-day-practice-asatru-ancient-religion-vikings
14 Dec 2012 … The Photoblog of Domi about photography pictures Iceland travels food fashion moda jedzenie podróże Islandia
There wouldn’t be any Icelandic fashion without tradition. Even nowadays the traditional influences are highly important and visible in everyday life. …
Most of young, talented Icelandic designers easily match the cosmopolitan spirit with local traditions and recall their place of birth. …
https://domithephotoblog.blogspot.com/2012/12/fashion-hunter-iceland.html
Nov 29, 2018 ─ Iceland Magazine
If you want to experience a real traditional Icelandic Christmas you should visit Árbær Open Air Museum during the Advent. The museum will be offering events for the whole family allowing people of all ages to experience and see how Icelanders have celebrated the holidays through the centuries. …
https://icelandmag.is/article/experience-all-old-fashioned-icelandic-christmas-traditions-arbaejarsafn-museum
7 Apr 2020 … Although Iceland is not a particularly religious country, Easter is still serious business. Read about the six key things to a truly Icelandic Easter!
With a 5 day weekend there are many events and activities that crucial to a proper Icelandic Easter and in this blog we discuss the most important.
In the run up this special holiday, BusTravel is going to tell you all about the Easter traditions in Iceland!
https://bustravel.is/blog/easter-traditions-in-iceland
Jun 28, 2020 ─ Bainbridge Island Review
Bainbridge High School freshman Ryan Powers recently traveled to Iceland with his grandfather, Andrew Ulitsky, also of Bainbridge. A budding photographer, he took many photos and subsequently wrote about the trip for an English class assignment. According to his grandmother, Helen Ulitsky, he got an A+. …
https://www.bainbridgereview.com/life/travel-testimony-papa-and-i-in-iceland-by-ryan-powers/
23 Dec 2012 … Iceland info ,photos and videos from every season .
Landscape,winter,summer and interesting info on Iceland
But the day before Christmas, There is a tradition, to eat ,what is called – Rotten Fish – or rotten/decayed stingray/skate which is a traditional Icelandic dish. And in many homes in Iceland , it is forbidden to cook it ,because of the huge rotten smell. …
https://iceland-dori.blogspot.com/2012/12/christmas-in-iceland-2012-rotten-fish.html
Nov 28, 2019 ─ Reykjavík Grapevine
“Carb Season”—or Christmas, or the winter holidays, or whatever you’d like to call it— is fast approaching. It’s time for laufabrauð, or Icelandic “leaf bread,” to do a Jesus-esque comeback and remind Icelandic homes that it is once again time for frantic consumerism and way too much family time.
Much tradition surrounds the making of these deep-fried bread disks. In December, families all around Iceland get together to make the thin cakes that are then sliced and carved with sometimes intricate patterns—think paper snowflakes—and deep-fried in sunflower oil or, more traditionally, lamb fat. …
https://grapevine.is/icelandic-culture/food/2019/11/28/food-of-iceland-laufabraud/
20 May 2020 ─ austin wanderlist
We adore Iceland. Over the past 15 years, we’ve been there about five times in all seasons except spring. Our first visit back in 2005 to see our favorite band and native Icelanders, gusgus, play at Iceland Airwaves (the SxSW of the Artic Circle!) was simply magical and life-changing. …
Like many locales across the world, the culinary scene in Iceland has changed a lot over the past 20 years. Back in 2005, there were good choices, but they were few. Today, Iceland is crawling with inventive, locavore food as well as local beers and liqueurs. SNAPS, however, has been highly rated from the get-go, and deservedly so: it’s a required stop for our visits.
Essentially a French bistro with New Icelandic and Scandanavian tendencies, SNAPS serves French traditionals with Icelandic ingredients as well as elevated Scandavian and Icelandic traditions like open sandwiches and the ever-present cod. Some of the dishes are architecturally influenced by noma (and therefore gorgeous). …
https://austinwanderlist.com/2020/05/20/snaps-reykjavik-iceland/
Jun 27, 2020 ─ The Atlantic
Netflix’s Eurovision Song Contest succeeds because it’s both sincere and satirical. Also, it has invisible elves. …
The movie is an ode to a live event that has been canceled this year because of the coronavirus pandemic, and it respects the contest’s silly traditions enough to serve as a useful substitute. …
Ferrell plays Lars Erickssong, a wayward Icelandic singer who dreams of debuting his disco ballads on the Eurovision stage. …
https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2020/06/eurovision-song-contest-story-fire-saga-review/613567/
14 Dec 2014 … Families get together, enjoy good food and exchange presents. It is Iceland‘s longest holiday, everything is closed from noon on Christmas Eve until December 27.
One major difference between Christmas in Iceland and in the U.S. is that Icelanders celebrate on Christmas Eve. The family gets together in the evening and that is when presents are exchanged. …
https://happyworld.is/category/icelandic-traditions/
Jan 18, 2018 ─ BBC News
People tend to think that Vikings are to Icelanders roughly what Romans are to Italians. But that’s not the case at all. …
But this is still a small nation, just 330,000 people, and their traditions are not only tourist attractions; they’re what anchor these displaced Scandinavians to their past, and each other. …
http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20180117-in-iceland-food-is-a-challenge-not-a-meal
14 Apr 2020 … Iceland plans to ease some of its coronavirus lockdown restrictions by allowing hair salons, museums and schools to reopen in early May, but its government said night clubs, gyms, bars and swimming pools will remain closed.
Measures such as a two-meter social distancing rule would remain in place, while the limit on large gatherings would be loosened from 20 to 50 people on May 4, the Atlantic island’s government said in a statement on Tuesday. …
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-iceland/time-for-a-haircut-iceland-to-begin-lifting-lockdown-in-may-idUSKCN21W2Q8
Aug 14, 2020 ─ Reykjavík Grapevine
A culinary, historical, and avian itinerary for a day trip in one of southern Iceland‘s most famous and beautiful destinations: the Westman Islands. …
With body and mind reenergized, it’s off to the Sagnheimar Folk Museum, which features exhibits on many surprising and peculiar episodes of the Islands’ history, for example, the importance of the annual festival, its 1627 invasion by Ottoman pirates, its numerous inhabitants who converted to Mormonism and emigrated to Utah, puffin hunting traditions of yore (now largely abandoned), the 1973 eruption that saw the evacuation of all islanders for several months, and the numerous locals who represented Iceland in the 1936 Olympics. …
Fulmars, kittiwakes, gannets, guillemots, Iceland gulls, and gannets all nest in great numbers here, but of course the Atlantic puffins, whose largest colony in the world can be found on this island, are the stars of the show. …
https://grapevine.is/travel/2020/08/14/a-day-in-the-900-food-folks-and-fulmars-in-the-westman-islands/
4 May 2020 … Book lovers will want to adopt this lovely holiday tradition, which melds literary and holiday pleasures into a single event.
Icelanders have a beautiful tradition of giving books to each other on Christmas Eve and then spending the night reading. This custom is so deeply ingrained in the culture that it is the reason for the Jolabokaflod, or “Christmas Book Flood,” when the majority of books in Iceland are sold between September and December in preparation for Christmas giving. …
https://www.treehugger.com/icelanders-give-books-christmas-eve-4858313
Feb 25, 2020 ─ Reykjavík Grapevine
Today is Sprengidagur, which literally translates to “Bursting Day”. The idea here is you’re supposed to eat a whole lot of food in preparation for Lent. …
Múlakaffi is one of the largest cafés in Iceland that serves this traditional fare, as well as one of the oldest, having been in business since 1962. … In the video below, one of their head chefs speaks to us and tells us a little bit about the traditions surrounding this day, and about the food itself.
https://grapevine.is/icelandic-culture/2020/02/25/sprengidagur-is-here-lets-have-some-salted-meat-and-split-pea-soup/
18 Nov 2015 … Were the Lewis chessmen made in Iceland? Is the land of the sagas also a land of world-class visual art? The Saga of Bishop Pall suggests it was.
The country has no tradition of stone sculpture, and even Icelanders did not believe the saga account of Bishop Pall’s sarcophagus–until they found it.
In the mid-1950s, before the new church was built at Skalholt, archaeologists were called in to excavate. …
https://nancymariebrown.blogspot.com/2015/11/icelands-medieval-art.html
Oct 17, 2017 ─ HowStuffWorks
Remote Iceland is lacking in genetic diversity, so it has a book to help residents find love. Learn all about the Book of Icelanders at HowStuffWorks. … Being an island nation has its perks, but genetic diversity isn’t one of them. In fact, every native Icelander is descended from the same couple. (Talk about awkward dating scenarios!) That’s where the book comes in.
The answer might not be immediately apparent because Icelanders have a different surname tradition than most of the rest of the world. There are no family names – people are named directly after their parents, usually the father. …
https://people.howstuffworks.com/culture-traditions/genealogy/what-is-the-book-of-icelanders.htm
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