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Grapevine Events: Holiday Gigs, Pop Up At Óx & Much More
Woooooho! We’re almost done with this year. Here’s the last batch of Reykjavík events, before we say “bless bless” to 2024. There are always more events at events.grapevine.is. Got an event? Add it to the calendar, or see what’s already happening around town.…
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BBC Reports Hard Hitting Iceland Elf Story
While parliament battles over the validity of the withdrawal of Iceland’s EU application and approval for the ruling coalition plummets in wake of protests, the BBC has found time to report on a hard hitting elf story. The BBC reports that following…
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Hiding in Plain Sight
In early 2014, we at Reykjavík Grapevine were forwarded a hand-drawn image entitled “Huldufolk [sic] of Iceland Remote Viewed.” The simple line drawing surrounded by redacted text was rather unlike any images of huldufólk that we had ever seen, a not at…
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Readers’ Huldu-fólktales
Since our Hidden People issue came out on Friday, readers have been submitting their own elf-encounter tales left and right. Here are a couple of the submissions we’ve received so far; send us yours at grapevine@grapevine.is and we’ll add to the collection!…
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It Was My Way, And The Highway
On the Álftanes peninsula, a good ten kilometres from downtown Reykjavík, lies a unique lava field called Gálgahraun. The towns of Hafnarfjörður, Álftanes and Garðabær were all built around the 8,000-year-old lava, which is on the Nature Conservation Register and was immortalised…
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Sour grapes & stuff: Issue 12, 2014
Say your piece, voice your opinion, send your letters to letters@grapevine.is Most Awesome Letter of the Issue ELVES! The headlines said the Iceland elves Played a big role in where they delved Putting a road where there was none Would surely please…