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They Are Coming

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Aliens in Iceland in 1993. Newspaper articles from the time do not agree on whether the event was “full of…

Greater Beings In The Stars Will Be Frequent Guests

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At the start of each New Year we are tempted to make predictions. Lemúrinn will make no such forecast for…

Lemúrinn: Crossing The Volcanic Wasteland With A Camera And Polished Shoes

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Horace Dall (1901-1986) lived on a hill in Luton, England. He pointed telescopes towards the stars and photographed the planets…

Lemúrinn: Historical Hipsters

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Hipsters have been an Icelandic fixture for decades. Just consider these photos we found in an old family photo album…

Lemúrinn: The Dream Of Icelandic Muskoxen

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This photograph, taken in August 1929, shows a few muskox calves grazing in Reykjavík’s central Austurvöllur square, which was back…

Lemúrinn: Clumsy Bodies And Cold, Expressionless Eyes

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The following passage appears in ‘The Living Races of Mankind: A popular illustrated Account of the Customs, Habits, Pursuits, Feasts…

Lemúrinn: The Graf Zeppelin Visits Reykjavík

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“On Thursday, July 17, at around 11:00 AM, the citizens of Reykjavík looked up at the sky in astonishment as…

Lemúrinn: The Presence Of A People

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In the last decade of the 19th century a young Englishman named Frederick W.W. Howell travelled extensively in Iceland, visiting…

Lemúrinn: Iceland’s Forgotten Zoo

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Exotic animals are a rare sight in Iceland. Once upon a time, however, Icelanders could visit lions, monkeys, polar bears,…

Lemúrinn: Icelandic Doppelgängers

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Doppelgängers are a mystery. Why does Russian President Vladimir Putin totally look like the Italian merchant Arnolfini in the haunting…

Was Reykjavík A Shithole In The Seventies?

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“This is the ugly city of my youth,” wrote the prominent writer Guðmundur Andri Thorsson about a Facebook album of…

Celebrating One Thousand Years Of Alþingi In 1930

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In the summer of 1930, 28-year-old Swedish photographer and scholar Berit Wallenberg travelled to Iceland where she spent a couple…

Coca-Cola In Iceland In 1944: Come, Be Blessed And Be Happy!

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A Coca-Cola Company ad campaign from 1944 is evidence of the far-flung places that World War II took American soldiers….

Lemúrinn: The Icelandic Tourist Experience In 1925

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In July 1925, a German cruise ship called the SS München stopped in Reykjavík, its first stop on a month-long…