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Gunnfríður Jónsdóttir’s Landsýn, or ‘Land in Sight’ at Strandarkirkja, Selvogur
You Will Not Shipwreck Here
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Tag Archives: Iceland
Life and Death in Iceland
When the dead aren’t dead, they keep an eye on the living.
Strandarkirkja
Those ones are unpredictable and need to be kept as close as sheep. A little herding never hurt, on both sides of the divide.
The Spirit of the Grindavik Gravel Pit
No need for an excavator from Finning Caterpillar Corporation to dig here.
Iceland New and Old
The old ones, the new ones, lost farms, invasive (but strangely beautiful) lupines on old farmland on old dunes, old fence lines of social power, new power lines of social relativity, the sea at your side, the mountains at your back, isn’t it great to be in a place where nothing is forgotten and nothing need be spoken of because it can be relied upon in the midnight sun?
Selvogur
Let’s not break the spell.
Strandarkirkja: the Church of Thor
Well, Thor has one eye shut.
So does the Beach Church! 
The other eye is the sea.
The End of a Whale in Arnarfjörður
Never romanticize Iceland.
Bildudalur Harbour
But if you do, it will wrench you back to your senses quickly enough.
The Edge of the World
Humans travel by the millions to Iceland every year, to stand at the edge of the Earth and look into the abyss.
The Last of the Glaciers Melts in the Jökulsárlón
Notice how it looks back without blinking.
