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Click on the picture to watch an audio slideshow of the lambing season at Brimnes, a farm in the north of Iceland, in April 2008. Sheep farmer Arnar Gústafsson and his girlfriend Edda Björk take shifts watching over the nearly 300 ewes and helping them give birth 24/7 for about two months or until the last lamb is born. In Iceland, the arrival of lambs is synonymous with the arrival of summer. The lambing season is currently at its height.
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Located just 40 minutes by car and six minutes from Keflavík International Airport, Sandgerdi (“Sandy Hedge”) is a growing town of 1,700 with a storied history and loads to see. Read this special promotion about the hidden secrets of one of Iceland's most charming seaside villages.
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The Eden Greenhouse and Nursery fire marked the end of an era for the community of Hveragerdi in south Iceland; in the last few years somewhere between four to five hundred thousand visitors came to Eden, Icelanders and foreigners alike.
From Hveragerdi, South Iceland.
Inside the Eden greenhouse was a nursery, tourist shop, game arcade, confectionary and a restaurant. One of the items destroyed in the fire was Bóbó, a toy vending machine inside which Bóbó the monkey greeted children of all ages; a facebook
Eden was a popular destination for Icelanders taking a Sunday drive or traveling to summerhouses, for tourists traveling to south Iceland and organized tours to Eden during the Christmas season were becoming popular.
Horticulturalist Bragi Einarssoon opened the Eden Greenhouse and Nursery in Hveragerdi in 1958 and ran the establishment for nearly half a century; his widow, Karen Wellk, worked with her husband for the last twenty-five years or up until 2006.
“It took my husband a long time to establish Eden in Hveragerdi but it was his passion in life and it was a privilege to help build the magnificent community center Eden became,” Wellk told mbl.is
On potential reconstruction plans she told mbl.is
Valgerdur Jóhannesdóttir, a retired employee of Eden who worked there for 39 years, told mbl.is
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The young Icelandic band Of Monsters and Men, which has enjoyed incredible popularity in the US, will be on Jay Leno’s The Tonight Show, on June 29. This will be the second time that the band performs on an American talk show.
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The first archeological research in Iceland this year will begin at Hafnir in Reykjanes, southwest Iceland, on Monday. Archeologists will continue their study of a hut which may originate from 770-880 AD and predate the historical settlement of Iceland in 847.
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A small glacial burst occurred in the volcano Katla, which lies underneath the Mýrdalsjökull icecap in south Iceland, on April 28 and lasted a few days. The activity was registered by seismic monitors and increased conduction was measured in the river Múlakvísl until May 7.
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Kexland (“Biscuit Land”) is a new events organizer and tour operator based at the hip KEX Hostel in Reykjavík, where its plans were presented on Wednesday. These include a guided tour and exercise at the capital’s swimming pools with comedian Dóri DNA.
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The current issue of the quarterly magazine Iceland Review includes interviews with fashion photographer Saga Sig and conceptual artist Rúrí. Also, we take you to Grímsstaðir á Fjöllum, that desolate land coveted by a Chinese tycoon, and also explore Icelandic archeological remains. We discuss the Icelandic Church, the flourishing gaming industry, debate the future of Iceland’s energy resources and interview the president of the Icelandic National League of North America. Subscribe now and receive a free photo book by IR’s editor Páll Stefánsson of the Eyjafjallajökull eruptions. Click here to subscribe to the magazine and here to buy a gift subscription.
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The Reykjavík Shorts&Docs was held in Reykjavík from May 6 to 9 in Bíó Paradís, and what an enriching experience it was to attend the festival.
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Shedding light on Iceland’s thousand-year history, as manifested in remains ranging from Viking graves to enchanted sites, Mannvist is a fundamental piece of writing. Ásta Andrésdóttir met with its author, archaeologist Birna Lárusdóttir.
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“The House Project” currently on display in Hafnarborg, the Hafnarfjörður Centre of Culture and Fine Art, is a new artwork by Hreinn Friðfinnsson consisting of a photography series of the three houses. His work is described as “a poetic and philosophical exploration of every day human experience.”
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