The world is bigger at dusk, the farther away it is.
It is good, I think, to go to bed when one is as small as a stone.
~
Skagafjörður
Sleeping on a Long Summer Night
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Category Archives: Land
Icelandic Driftwood
Well, rock. Drift rock.
In the glacial outwash floods that overwhelmed Kirkjubær, it is a thing. If it wasn’t for little tufts of moss clinging to the roots of grass, the whole Island might have washed away by now.
Herding or Herded? That is the Question
Do people ride horses to herd their stock…
…or are they herded by mountains and waters, and are doing their bidding?
Mountain Avens at Kirkjubær
Sometimes, limestone catches the Arctic wind.
Dryas octopetala (White Dryad)
One is best to stop and read one’s self. Take your time. This book has more than one word.
Shipwrecked in the Beauty of the Northern Sun
As the sun sets over the Skagafjörður and the peninsular pillar of Þorðarhöfði, the waves bring it onto the black sand beach of Gardssanður with a promise of dawn.
And not just of dawn but of eternity. Maybe it’s not definable otherwise, but it sure is here: Eilíifð, roughly translated as “eternity,” better as the “living on”, in the sense of survivors (such as settlers in Iceland, in the midst of such a sea.) Such is the haunting pleasure of islands.
A Bridge Can Be a Thing of Beauty
(Beauty can also be a bridge.)
Skagafjörður from Hofstaðir, looking North
Icelandic Trail Etiquette
Wild Geraniums in Ásbyrgi
Deep in the birch forest, the wild geranium blooms.
Blágresi (Geranium sylvaticum)
Worth getting the feet wet, I say!
At Home in Iceland
In Gunnar’s Iceland, a man’s home was what he could build with his own hands.Rocks for a wall were present everywhere. The hands responded.
And a house was made of sod, cut from that home, by the same hands. So, all those fields in Iceland?
Those are the bodies of men. That’s what it is to be home.
Awe in the Land of Giants
Some mountains are so powerful, their names are primal forces from a land of giants.
Urðahlið: The Broken Mountain, or even The Broken Gate.
Borgarfjördur in Arnarfjörður
It is good that we are small. It is good to know.
A Farm in Iceland 
