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Grapevine Events: Holiday Opening Hours, Blaze & Brakes, JÓLASAMPL
Staring out of this office window into the pitch-black sky, we can’t help but count down the hours until this week ends and we start enjoying the holidays. Nevertheless, we have jobs to do today, and ours is to tell you what’s…
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Grapevine Events: Regnboginn Opening, Spacestation Christmas Acoustic Concert, Kárahátíð 2.o
Sometimes, it feels like we’re a broken record, telling you each week that the weather is bad, but there are still events to go to. This week is no different: it’s been rainy and windy, but nevertheless, there are great events happening…
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Know Your Yule Lad Basics: We Keep Getting Older, Yule Lads Stay The Same Age
In 2005, we were a struggling publication, and we decided to take a leap and detail the unique Icelandic Christmas tradition of Grýla, Leppalúði, and their children, the Yule Lads. Little did we know that our explanation of the characters from Jóhannes…
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The Reykjavík Grapevine Living Holiday Glossary
More than two decades of explaining the smells and bells of Christmas Since 2005, we have been attempting to help tourists and new Icelanders understand Christmas on this barren island. We have made very little progress. This is still a time of…
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Grapevine Events: Latin American Film Festival, Jólaportið, Brumm Brumm Exhibition & More
The city is twinkling with lights, and people are buzzing about town. It’s December! We’ve rounded up some happenings for you to shelter in when you get too cold as you walk about The Christmas City (Jólaborgin). On Friday, artist-run Herma celebrates…
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Grapevine Events: Holiday Spirit, Röntgen’s Birthday, SAMPL
After this weekend, it will be December. No judgment if you started feeling jolly a bit sooner, but we say that, now, it’s officially permissible to get into a wintery spirit. Off of that, there are many festive events around town if…
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Fiiiiiive Goooooold Riiiings: Christmassy Goings-On In Reykjavík City
Reykjavík is a cosy and festive place to be at Christmas, from the decoration-festooned downtown streets to pop-up markets, special concerts and a city-centre skating rink at Ingólfstorg. Here are some recommended events to ease you into the holiday spirit. Heiðmörk Christmas…
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Christmas Is Coming & We Are Getting Fat: A Festive Guide To Reykjavík Restaurants
After last year’s tour of easy-going downtown havens like Mat Bar, Snaps and Skál, we decided to broaden the net a little for this year’s Christmas menu review to include some upscale, emerging and tucked-away eateries. Whether you’re planning a hot date…
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Sheep-Cote Clod Turns Down Össur Prosthetic
Stekkjastaur (Sheep-Cote Clod), the first of the 13 Icelandic Yule Lads, has turned down a generous offer from pioneering prosthetic company Össur to help him with his leg condition. For centuries Sheep-Cote Clod’s daily life has been inhibited by a rare medical…
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The Sun Born Again: Ásatrú’s Jól Celebrations
For practitioners of Ásatrú, a contemporary form of Norse paganism whose beliefs are based in an abiding respect for nature, as well as ancient Norse culture, folk belief, and mythology, Jól is the most important holiday of the year. A celebration of…