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Knitting for Christmas
December is pretty much universally recognised as the most difficult month of the year, what with the cold, the dark and the inescapable, mind-numbing ever-present Christmas music. However, what few realise is that this bleak month is especially harrowing for those who…
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The Jólabókaflóð
You might not have heard of it, but Iceland has a yearly flood. It’s not like the monsoon where the streets are overrun with water and mud. No, this is a different kind of flood, namely the so-called Christmas-Book Flood. Well. It…
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Blönduós, Mother Of All Confusion
I do not know what it is about Blönduós that brings on confusion. If I did, I could bottle it and sell it as bottled misunderstanding. I would become very rich indeed. Bottled misunderstanding would no doubt make a good party gift…
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From the Editor’s Chair
A friend of mine has a fascination with ninjas. It coincides very well with my own fascination for Lee Van Cleef, for, as everyone knows, he was the first Occidental to become a ninja. Besides exploring the mystic cult of the dark…
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From the Editor’s Chair
As the holiday spirit consumes me, let me present my early Christmas present to you: Dear Readers, an all new look to your favorite magazine, The Reykjavík Grapevine. With the publication standing at a juncture, this being our 51st issue, we thought…
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If Christians read the Bible…
I was lucky enough to not to be baptised in infancy. My parents felt that this was a decision I had to make myself later in life. Perhaps it was inevitable then that questions of religion would weigh heavily on me. From…