In this new article, Sunna Símonardóttir examines modern parenthood by interviewing voluntarily childfree Icelanders 🇮🇸 looking into how prevailing parenting norms affect the decision-making process associated with choosing not to have a child.
From the manuscript to you: How Old Norse manuscripts are read and edited
"A case-study in how a page from an Old Norse manuscript (in this case the Codex Regius of the Poetic Edda) is edited for publication in a modern-day book. Manuscript images from the Árni Magnússon Institute at the University of Iceland (handrit.is)."
#Video length: Thirty minutes and fifteen seconds.
Environmental historian Vicki Szabo and her team of archaeologists, historians, folklorists and geneticists are trying to figure out medieval Icelanders' attitudes to blue whales. Did they revere them as their protectors? Did they hunt them for food? Was it both? @hakaimagazine's Andrew Chapman reports on the work of this multi-disciplinary team, and what their findings might tell us about historical and modern whale populations.
The Icelandic Phallological Museum displays a huge statue with a very unGreek flaccid phallus. In #GrecoRomanArt, the foreskin is long and tapered, the shaft is short and thin when flaccid, and always a grower, never a shower.
Did you celebrate? But did you do it respecting the traditions and the Hidden People?
For example, in #Iceland, it was believed that New Year's Day was the moving day of the #fairies, or Huldufólk¹. So people lit candles in front of the windows to help them find the way home. 🏠🕯️🧚
Main road to Grindavík (Iceland) is covered under lava
apnews.com/…/volcanoes-iceland-reykjavik-287e3494…