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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 three women who accused former bishop Ólafur Skúlason of sexual offenses will receive compensation of five million each from the National Church of Iceland; the current bishop of Iceland, Karl Sveinbjörnsson, signed the agreement on behalf of the church.
From a church.
The church will pay the expenses that Sigrún Pálína Ingvarsdóttir has accrued throughout the years in her battle with the church; she was the first to accuse former bishop Ólafur Skúlason in 1996.
The agreement stating that the case has now been resolved was signed on Friday at Grensáskirkja church in Reykjavík, ruv.is reports.
“The emotional scars the years of battle have left cannot be repaired with any amount of money,” Sigrún Pálína Ingvarsdóttir told ruv.is
last Thursday.Ingvarsdóttir donated ISK 1.000.000 to Stígamót, an Education and Counseling Center for Survivors of Sexual Abuse and Violence, mbl.is reports.
The church will not admit the former bishop’s guilt but accepts responsibility for mistreating the women when they first came forward with their accusations.
Björn Valur Gíslason, an MP for the Left Green party, criticized the National Church in his blog
on Thursday for the treatment the women received when they first made their complaints to the church.“No amount of money is going to repair the damage done. What is important is that the church is accepting responsibility and attempting to repair some of the damage by paying the victims.”
He believes the church has to take responsibility from within as well. The same people who dismissed the charges still hold high positions within the national church and the church can’t pay its way out of it, mbl.is reports
.The fact that the church receives government funding from Icelandic tax payers requires them to settle their affairs in addition to paying the victims’ compensations, MP Gíslason said on his website.
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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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