Icelandic Times – Issue 50

Editorial
Read PDF     The first day of summer in Iceland is celebrated in the middle of April. The promise of summer offers the best weather to explore all ...

Mountains & waterfalls

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Mountains & waterfalls Ever changing, never the same. That's how Iceland is. Icelandic Times / Land & Saga went sightseeing. Headed east from Reykjav...

Vesturgata in Vesturbær

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Vesturgata in Vesturbær At the beginning of the last century, Reykjavík was divided into three parts, downtown, east and west. The more affluent lived in the...

Panorama of the capital area

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Panorama of the capital area Kópavogskirkja, the oldest church in the second most populous municipality in the country, stands at the top of Bo...

By Hringbraut

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By Hringbraut Hringbraut is first seen in its entirety on a plan from 1927. The idea actually first appeared shortly after the turn of the century in 1900. The...

Spring is around the corner

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Spring is around the corner It is a remarkable day, equally so in the springtime like today, and in the autumntime. These two days have roughly the same amou...

Askja waking up?

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Askja waking up? If the volcano Askja/Dyngjufjöll, which is on the northern side of the highlands, between Vatnajökull and Mývatn, starts to erupt, it could ...

Tjarnargata by Tjörnin

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Tjarnargata by Tjörnin Tjarnargata, runs from Fógetagarðurinn, where the first settler Ingólfur Arnarson built his settlement in 874, to Hringbraut, along Tj...

Helgi’s Great Corridor

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Helgi's Great Corridor "Rakel, my wife, and I loosely summed up the value of the gift to the Icelandic Museum of Art, around one hundred million". Says Helgi...

2 Giants

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2 Giants On the eastern side of Hljómskálagarður, not far from each other, stand two giants in the cultural history of Icelanders, the contemporaries Jónas H...

A moment at the National Museum

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A moment at the National Museum Rúnar Gunnarsson's exhibition (1944) Not the blink of an eye, but eternity, just opened at the National Museum of Iceland and...

The blooming town of Hveragerði

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The blooming town of Hveragerði Hveragerði, a town 50 km east of Reykjavík, was created after the second war, but in 1941 there were about 140 people living ...

A visit to Þingvellir

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  A visit to Þingvellir It has been 95 years since the first national park in Iceland, Þingvellir National Park, was established in 1928. Þingvellir ...

Þorlákshöfn on the up and go

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Þorlákshöfn on the up and go The town of Þorlákshöfn on the south coast, where Reykjanes meets Suðurland, now has around 2000 inhabitants. Þorlákshöfn is jus...