Leave Something For The City For Christ's Sake

another excursion on the second-to-last-day in Iceland

we skipped rocks towards a mountain in the sea


then we went to the settlement museum
view from the anamatronic viking ship

one of the first settlers was also a werewolf
seriously.
portrait of Snorri
Snorri Sturluson^[1] (1178 – September 23, 1241) was an Icelandic historian, poet and politician. He was two-time elected lawspeaker at the Icelandic parliament, the Althing. He was the author of the Prose Edda or Younger Edda, which consists of Gylfaginning ("the fooling of Gylfi"), a narrative of Norse mythology, the Skáldskaparmál, a book of poetic language, and the Háttatal, a list of verse forms. He was also the author of the Heimskringla, a history of the Norwegian kings that begins with legendary material in Ynglinga saga and moves through to early medieval Scandinavian history. For stylistic and methodological reasons, Snorri is often taken to be the author of Egils saga.
restaurant
icelandic sheep stew and bread w/ butter has never been better
hot water getting piped out of the hot springs
the hot springs

springing
and being hot
achtung!
nat at the hot springs
dangerous




hot water river

and there's me at the hot springs

doling out icelandic specialties:
Head Cheese-gross, not actually cheese
Sheep's Head- not bad, tastes like chicken
Blood Sausage-tastes like sausage made out of blood made out of cardboard
Icelandic Black Death liquor-absolutely delicious.

The word brennivín literally translates into English as 'burning wine', and comes from the same root as brandy, namely brandewijn which has its roots in the Dutch language (also compare German Branntwein).

Despite its unofficial status as national beverage and a traditional drink for the mid-winter feast of Þorrablót, many Icelanders do not regularly drink it. The drink has a strong taste and high alcohol content (37.5% ABV), and carries an equivocal reputation: despite the fact that Iceland levies huge taxes on most alcoholic beverages, brennivín is actually one of the moderately priced liquors available in the national alcohol store, Vínbúð, and is thus often associated with alcoholics. It's very difficult to find in the United States.

riding back to Reyjavik
warming up