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  • Drinking Brennivín ("Black death") , a highly alcoholic Icelandic drink, while eating shark buried and served it after it was putrified.
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  • Start of the saga of St. olafr showing St. Olafr killing the boar and a mermaid.<br />
The original is held in the Arnas Magussonar Institute. The Icelantic sagas can be seen in the original in the Culture House Reykjavik.<br />
Built between 1906-1908, Reykjavik's Culture House is home to temporary and permanent exhibitions tracing the country's history, including literature, politics, maps, state emblems and currency. The museum was originally built to house The National Library, The National Archives, The National Museum and The Museum of National History. Now, along with major exhibitions, the Culture House also has a comprehensive library room where you can see landmark books of Icelandic cultural history, including the oldest published versions of the Sagas of the Kings of Norway, the Eddic poems, Hallgrímur Pétursson's Psalms of Christ's Passion and Vidalín's Homilies.
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  • Horse riding in Southern Iceland. <br />
Hvitardalur. Apart from walking, trotting, cantering, and galloping, Icelandic horses can tölt – the word is sometimes translated as ‘rack’ – a four-beat lateral gait with footfalls in the same sequence as the walk, but with much greater speed and smoothness; a tölt is generally at the speed of a canter.
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  • Horse riding in Southern Iceland. <br />
Hvitardalur. Apart from walking, trotting, cantering, and galloping, Icelandic horses can tölt – the word is sometimes translated as ‘rack’ – a four-beat lateral gait with footfalls in the same sequence as the walk, but with much greater speed and smoothness; a tölt is generally at the speed of a canter.
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  • Portrait of an Icelandic farmer and his son holding greglag geese they have shot in their fields, Dalvik, Iceland
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  • An Icelandic farmer walks through a field of plastic decoy geese with two dead greylag geese he has just shot, Dalvik, Iceland
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  • Portrait of an Icelandic farmer and his son holding greglag geese they have shot in their fields, Dalvik, Iceland
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  • Puffin hunter Jakob Erlingsson holds dead puffins he has caught using a net in his hands<br />
Vestmannaeyjar, Iceland. Puffin hunting has been of major importance in Vestmannaeyjar and during the hunting season of just over 6 weeks every year, some 16,000 puffins were caught to make up Iceland’s national dinner. However by 2011 and 2012, breeding failures had taken such a toll that puffin hunting was banned in Vestmannaeyjar.  In 2013 a five-day puffin-hunting season was allowed at the end of July.
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  • Puffin hunter Jakob Erlingsson tying up the day's catch of puffins with rope for carrying home, Vestmannaeyjar, Iceland. Puffin hunting has been of major importance in Vestmannaeyjar and during the hunting season of just over 6 weeks every year, some 16,000 puffins were caught to make up Iceland’s national dinner. However by 2011 and 2012, breeding failures had taken such a toll that puffin hunting was banned in the Vestmannaeyjar.  In 2013 a five-day puffin-hunting season was allowed at the end of July.
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  • A dead puffin lying on the grass after being caught using a net by a puffin hunter, Vestmannaeyjar, Iceland. Puffin hunting has been of major importance in Vestmannaeyjar and during the hunting season of just over 6 weeks every year, some 16,000 puffins were caught to make up Iceland’s national dinner. However by 2011 and 2012, breeding failures had taken such a toll that puffin hunting was banned in Vestmannaeyjar.  In 2013 a five-day puffin-hunting season was allowed at the end of July.
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  • Horse riding in Southern Iceland. The Highland plateau with mountain and glaciers in the background. The loose (riderless) horses travel with the riders to enable changing horses when neccessary.
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  • Horse riding in Southern Iceland. <br />
Resting at the sheep pens at Hrunarettir.
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  • Horse riding in Southern Iceland. <br />
Resting at the sheep pens at Hrunarettir.
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  • Horse riding in Southern Iceland. Riding through the farmlands of Hrunamannahreppur.
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  • Horse riding in Southern Iceland. Grazing horses near Laugarvatn.
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  • Horse riding in Southern Iceland. Grazing horses near Laugarvatn.
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  • Horse riding in Southern Iceland. Geysir hot springs
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  • Horse riding in Southern Iceland. The Highland plateau with mountain and glaciers in the background. The loose (riderless) horses travel with the riders to enable changing horses when neccessary.
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  • Horse riding in Southern Iceland. By the Gullfoss waterfall.
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  • Horse riding in Southern Iceland. By the Gullfoss waterfall.
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  • Horse riding in Southern Iceland. By the Gullfoss waterfall.
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  • Horse riding in Southern Iceland. By the Gullfoss waterfall.
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  • Horse riding in Southern Iceland. <br />
The canyon of Bruarhloo, alongside the Hvita river.
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  • Horse riding in Southern Iceland. <br />
The canyon of Bruarhloo, alongside the Hvita river.
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  • Horse riding in Southern Iceland.
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  • Horse riding in Southern Iceland.
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  • Horse riding in Southern Iceland. <br />
Hvitardalur farm.
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  • Horse riding in Southern Iceland. <br />
Hvitardalur. Franziska, a dedicated rider from Germany working with the horses for the summer.
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  • Horse riding in Southern Iceland. <br />
Hvitardalur. Franziska, a dedicated rider from Germany working with the horses for the summer.
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  • Horse riding in Southern Iceland. <br />
Resting at the sheep pens at Hrunarettir.
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  • Horse riding in Southern Iceland. <br />
Resting at the sheep pens at Hrunarettir.
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  • Horse riding in Southern Iceland. <br />
Resting at the sheep pens at Hrunarettir.
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  • Horse riding in Southern Iceland. Riding through the farmlands of Hrunamannahreppur. Crossing the Stora-Laxa river.
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  • Horse riding in Southern Iceland. Riding through the farmlands of Hrunamannahreppur.
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  • Horse riding in Southern Iceland. Riding through the farmlands of Hrunamannahreppur.
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  • Horse riding in Southern Iceland. The Highland plateau with mountain and glaciers in the background. The loose (riderless) horses travel with the riders to enable changing horses when neccessary.
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  • Horse riding in Southern Iceland. By the Gullfoss waterfall.
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  • Horse riding in Southern Iceland. The Highland plateau with mountain and glaciers in the background. The loose (riderless) horses travel with the riders to enable changing horses when neccessary.
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  • Horse riding in Southern Iceland. By the Gullfoss waterfall.
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  • Horse riding in Southern Iceland. <br />
The canyon of Bruarhloo, alongside the Hvita river.
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  • Horse riding in Southern Iceland. <br />
Fossnes farm. Horse box.
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  • Horse riding in Southern Iceland. <br />
An evening at the Fossnes farm.<br />
A simple farmhouse supper.
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  • Horse riding in Southern Iceland. <br />
An evening at the Fossnes farm.<br />
A simple farmhouse supper.
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  • Horse riding in Southern Iceland. <br />
Hvitardalur farm.
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  • Horse riding in Southern Iceland. <br />
Hvitardalur
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  • Horse riding in Southern Iceland. <br />
Hvitardalur
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  • Horse riding in Southern Iceland. <br />
Hvitardalur
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  • Horse riding in Southern Iceland. <br />
Resting at the sheep pens at Hrunarettir. Franziska, a dedicated rider from Germany working with the horses for the summer.
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  • Horse riding in Southern Iceland. Riding through the farmlands of Hrunamannahreppur.
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  • Horse riding in Southern Iceland. Fossness Farm. Riding equipment. Saddle and riding hat.
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  • Horse riding in Southern Iceland. Fossness Farm. The leader of the loose horses using a bite to control the team.
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  • Jon, a farmer in the Lake Myvatn area, smoking salmon from the nearby river Lax, Iceland. The fish are cleaned, washed and put in salt water, washed again, turned inside out and smoked for 2-3 days. The fish are smoked over dried sheep dung in a turf covered smoking hut.
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  • It is tradition among puffin hunters to release the first puffin caught each season to bring luck for future hunting – any accidentally caught with fish in their beaks are also released. Puffin hunting has been of major importance in Vestmannaeyjar and during the hunting season of just over 6 weeks every year, some 16,000 puffins were caught to make up Iceland’s national dinner. However by 2011 and 2012, breeding failures had taken such a toll that puffin hunting was banned in the Vestmannaeyjar.  In 2013 five-day puffin-hunting season was allowed at the end of July.
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  • Puffin hunter Jakob Erlingsson holds a puffin he has caught using a net in his hands. It is a tradition amongst puffin hunters to release the first puffin caught each season to bring luck for future hunting. Puffin hunting has been of major importance in Vestmannaeyjar and during the hunting season of just over 6 weeks every year, some 16,000 puffins were caught to make up Iceland’s national dinner. However by 2011 and 2012, breeding failures had taken such a toll that puffin hunting was banned in Vestmannaeyjar.  In 2013 a five-day puffin-hunting season was allowed at the end of July.
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  • Portrait of puffin hunter Jakob Erlingsson holding the puffins he has caught that day using a net. Puffin hunting has been of major importance in Vestmannaeyjar and during the hunting season of just over 6 weeks every year, some 16,000 puffins were caught to make up Iceland’s national dinner. However by 2011 and 2012, breeding failures had taken such a toll that puffin hunting was banned in the Vestmannaeyjar.  In 2013 a five-day puffin-hunting season was allowed at the end of July.
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  • Puffin hunter Jakob Erlingsson patiently waits for a puffin just the right distance away before swinging his net upwards to catch it. Puffin hunting has been of major importance in Vestmannaeyjar and during the hunting season of just over 6 weeks every year, some 16,000 puffins were caught to make up Iceland’s national dinner. However by 2011 and 2012, breeding failures had taken such a toll that puffin hunting was banned in the Vestmannaeyjar.  In 2013 a five-day puffin-hunting season was allowed at the end of July.
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  • Puffin hunter Jakob Erlingsson swings his net with a 3m long handle to catch the birds in the air. Puffin hunting has been of major importance in Vestmannaeyjar and during the hunting season of just over 6 weeks every year, some 16,000 puffins were caught to make up Iceland’s national dinner. However by 2011 and 2012, breeding failures had taken such a toll that puffin hunting was banned in the Vestmannaeyjar.  In 2013 a five-day puffin-hunting season was allowed at the end of July.
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  • An already caught puffin is propped up with a stick as a decoy to encourage other puffins to come closer. Puffin hunting has been of major importance in Vestmannaeyjar and during the hunting season of just over 6 weeks every year, some 16,000 puffins were caught to make up Iceland’s national dinner. However by 2011 and 2012, breeding failures had taken such a toll that puffin hunting was banned in Vestmannaeyjar.  In 2013 a five-day puffin-hunting season was allowed at the end of July.
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  • Jon, a farmer in the Lake Myvatn area, smoking salmon from the nearby river Lax, Iceland. The fish are cleaned, washed and put in salt water, washed again, turned inside out and smoked for 2-3 days. The fish are smoked over dried sheep dung in a turf covered smoking hut.
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  • Jon, a farmer in the Lake Myvatn area, smoking salmon from the nearby river Lax, Iceland. The fish are cleaned, washed and put in salt water, washed again, turned inside out and smoked for 2-3 days. The fish are smoked over dried sheep dung in a turf covered smoking hut.
    46-06_1.jpg
  • Jon, a farmer in the Lake Myvatn area, smoking salmon from the nearby river Lax, Iceland. The fish are cleaned, washed and put in salt water, washed again, turned inside out and smoked for 2-3 days. The fish are smoked over dried sheep dung in a turf covered smoking hut.
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  • A farmer watches and waits whilst hunting for greylag geese in a field, Dalvik, Iceland.
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  • Hotel Holt is unique among Icelandic hotels in displaying a permanent collection of original works of art, paintings, wall reliefs and sculptures, both in its public areas and private rooms, for the pleasure of its guests. The Hotel Holt art collection , which numbers almost 300 works from the private collection of its founder, Thorvaldur Guðmundsson,(1911 - 1998 )  presents a veritable panorama of modern Icelandic art from its 19th century beginnings to the present day.
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  • The statue in front of the Hallgrímskirkja church is of Leif Eríkson, an Icelandic/Norwegian explorer and the first European thought to have landed in North America. The monument was a gift from the United States for the 1930 Althing Millennial Festival, which marked the 1000th anniversary of Iceland's parliament.
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  • Reykjavik Culture Night is one of the most popular events in Icelandic art life. It is estimated that at least 100 thousand people gathered together this day.<br />
The day is loaded with organized as well as unorganized events where all that are interested in culture and art make their mark.<br />
Watching the handball final of the Olympics at 7am in the Sports Bar were Iceland gained a silver medal.
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  • Reykjavik Culture Night is one of the most popular events in Icelandic art life. It is estimated that at least 100 thousand people gathered together this day.<br />
The day is loaded with organized as well as unorganized events where all that are interested in culture and art make their mark.<br />
7 am the next morning revellers head for home.
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  • Reykjavik Culture Night is one of the most popular events in Icelandic art life. It is estimated that at least 100 thousand people gathered together this day.<br />
The day is loaded with organized as well as unorganized events where all that are interested in culture and art make their mark.<br />
Firework display over the capital finishing the event.
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  • Reykjavik Culture Night is one of the most popular events in Icelandic art life. It is estimated that at least 100 thousand people gathered together this day.<br />
The day is loaded with organized as well as unorganized events where all that are interested in culture and art make their mark.<br />
Street performance.
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  • Reykjavik Culture Night is one of the most popular events in Icelandic art life. It is estimated that at least 100 thousand people gathered together this day.<br />
The day is loaded with organized as well as unorganized events where all that are interested in culture and art make their mark.<br />
Street performance.
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  • Reykjavik Culture Night is one of the most popular events in Icelandic art life. It is estimated that at least 100 thousand people gathered together this day.<br />
The day is loaded with organized as well as unorganized events where all that are interested in culture and art make their mark.
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  • Reykjavik Culture Night is one of the most popular events in Icelandic art life. It is estimated that at least 100 thousand people gathered together this day.<br />
The day is loaded with organized as well as unorganized events where all that are interested in culture and art make their mark.<br />
Models at an impromptu fashion show in the cold wet afternoon in Reykjavic's main shopping street Laugavegur.
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  • Reykjavik Culture Night is one of the most popular events in Icelandic art life. It is estimated that at least 100 thousand people gathered together this day.<br />
The day is loaded with organized as well as unorganized events where all that are interested in culture and art make their mark.<br />
Attendees of an impromptu fashion show in the cold wet afternoon in Reykjavic's main shopping street Laugavegur.
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  • Reykjavik Culture Night is one of the most popular events in Icelandic art life. It is estimated that at least 100 thousand people gathered together this day.<br />
The day is loaded with organized as well as unorganized events where all that are interested in culture and art make their mark.<br />
Models and attendees of an impromptu fashion show in the cold wet afternoon in Reykjavic's main shopping street Laugavegur.
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  • Reykjavik Culture Night is one of the most popular events in Icelandic art life. It is estimated that at least 100 thousand people gathered together this day.<br />
The day is loaded with organized as well as unorganized events where all that are interested in culture and art make their mark.<br />
Models and attendees of an impromptu fashion show in the cold wet afternoon in Reykjavic's main shopping street Laugavegur.
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  • Reykjavik Culture Night is one of the most popular events in Icelandic art life. It is estimated that at least 100 thousand people gathered together this day.<br />
The day is loaded with organized as well as unorganized events where all that are interested in culture and art make their mark.<br />
Art installation.
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  • Reykjavik Culture Night is one of the most popular events in Icelandic art life. It is estimated that at least 100 thousand people gathered together this day.<br />
The day is loaded with organized as well as unorganized events where all that are interested in culture and art make their mark.<br />
Performance artists performing a car crash.
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  • Reykjavik Culture Night is one of the most popular events in Icelandic art life. It is estimated that at least 100 thousand people gathered together this day. <br />
The day is loaded with organized as well as unorganized events where all that are interested in culture and art make their mark. <br />
Laying turf on the street for a party.
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  • Reykjavik Culture Night is one of the most popular events in Icelandic art life. It is estimated that at least 100 thousand people gathered together this day. The most fit started the day by taking part in the Reykjavík Marathon that starts in the morning. The day is loaded with organized as well as unorganized events where all that are interested in culture and art make their mark.
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  • Dialog Project created by Anne Leoniak and Fiann Paul on view at the crossroads of Lækjargata and Austurstræti<br />
Photographs of Icelandic children.
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  • Reykjavik Culture Night is one of the most popular events in Icelandic art life. It is estimated that at least 100 thousand people gathered together this day.<br />
The day is loaded with organized as well as unorganized events where all that are interested in culture and art make their mark.
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  • Reykjavik Culture Night is one of the most popular events in Icelandic art life. It is estimated that at least 100 thousand people gathered together this day.<br />
The day is loaded with organized as well as unorganized events where all that are interested in culture and art make their mark.<br />
Performance artists performing a car crash.
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  • View of the city of Reykjavik. Iceland
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  • Crashed car used in  road safety campagn in  South Iceland. In the background is a 3,000 h.p. thermal generator power farm near the town of Hafnafjordur, the steam is visible for miles.
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  • View of the city of Reykjavik. Iceland
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  • View of the city of Reykjavik. Iceland
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  • A guillemot egg collected on Vestmannaeyjar, Iceland. Vestmannaeyjar or the Westmann Islands are a small and scattered group of 15 islands and numerous rocks or skerries off the south east coast of Iceland. More sea birds gather here than anywhere else in Iceland. Through the centuries sea birds have been a rich source of food and one which has helped the islanders survive the harsh winters. Regarded as a great delicacy by many Icelanders, sea birds eggs are commonly eaten in coastal villages in season.
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  • A guillemot egg collected on Vestmannaeyjar, Iceland. Vestmannaeyjar or the Westmann Islands are a small and scattered group of 15 islands and numerous rocks or skerries off the south east coast of Iceland. More sea birds gather here than anywhere else in Iceland. Through the centuries sea birds have been a rich source of food and one which has helped the islanders survive the harsh winters. Regarded as a great delicacy by many Icelanders, sea birds eggs are commonly eaten in coastal villages in season.
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  • Woman using a walking stick as she walks past an Iceland shop showing cheap offers on its window in Kings Heath on 14th April 2020 in Birmingham, England, United Kingdom. Iceland Foods Ltd is a British supermarket chain. It has an emphasis on the sale of frozen foods, including prepared meals and vegetables. They also sell non-frozen grocery items such as produce, meat, dairy, and dry goods, and is known for being a low cost, budget option for food.
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  • 101 hotel is a boutique hotel and a member of Design hotels, situated in the heart of Reykjavik, the capital of Iceland. The luxury design hotel is the creation of owner and designer Ingibjörg S. Pálmadóttir, a graduate from Parsons School of Design in New York. Entrance to the bar and resturant.
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  • Hallgrímskirkja (Hallgrim's Church) in Reykjavik is the tallest and most striking church in Iceland.
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  • Iceland, Reykjavik. Around Reykjavik lake.
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  • Iceland, Reykjavik<br />
Museum of Modern art.<br />
Light sculptue by Carlos Cruiz-Diaz
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  • Iceland, Reykjavik. Town hall
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  • 101 hotel is a boutique hotel and a member of Design hotels, situated in the heart of Reykjavik, the capital of Iceland. The luxury design hotel is the creation of owner and designer Ingibjörg S. Pálmadóttir, a graduate from Parsons School of Design in New York. The entrance lobby.
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  • Hallgrímskirkja (Hallgrim's Church) in Reykjavik is the tallest and most striking church in Iceland.
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  • Iceland, Reykjavik.<br />
Drekinn general food store on Frakkastigur street.
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  • Four British children walk past a large and bright Iceland supermarket in Blandford Forum, United Kingdom.  Iceland is a British supermarket chain in the United Kingdom and Ireland.  Its primary product lines are frozen foods, such as ready meals and potato chips.
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  • Harpa Reykjavik Concert Hall and Conference Center, designed by Henning Larsen Architects. Reykjavik, Iceland.
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  • Harpa Reykjavik Concert Hall and Conference Center, designed by Henning Larsen Architects. Reykjavik, Iceland.
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  • Murals on  old old industrial unit. Revkjavik, Iceland.
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