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Olafsson Icelandic
Art Online
COMMENTS FROM THE PRESS!
Interesting,
informative, pleasant!
"The
tour was interesting, informative, pleasant, revealing and above all, very,
very weird, some-times even simultaneously combining all five elements."
Sindri Eldon, Reykjavik Grapevine , Issue 8 2006.
Enviormental Elves!
Entertaining, Animated and eccentric.
Whether you actually believe in ghost and elves or not isn´t
really important.
Reykjavik Mag, Paul F. Niklov, Jun 2006 June 2006
Stroke of genius!
Then came his stroke of genius: he hired several mediums to
walk the anticipated route of the city and identify spirits and any other
unusual presence they might encounter.
Iceland Review, Eliza Reed, Jun 2006
See
our PRESS Section
Going On A Reykjavik Trip Trap Walk
To go on a Reykjavik Walk, meet your guide and fellow walkers on the
pavement ("sidewalk" in North American parlance) outside the designated
startingpoint at the time stated.
Your guide will be holding up copies of the distinctive Reykjavik Walks
leaflet. (If you scroll right down to the bottom of this page you'll find a
little photo of the Reykjavik Walks leaflet and map.)
There is no need to book for any of the Reykjavik Walks or Explorer Days -
just turn up. There's no red tape with Reykjavik Walks!
But very large groups should book a private walk - it's even cheaper and
you'll have your own guide!
Just give us a call.
A Reykjavik Walk lasts about two hours.
And they always take place, rain or shine.
Í allan vetur bjóðum við upp á draugaferðir um miðbæ Reykjavíkur!
Frekari upplýsingar um
sérferðir á íslensku.
SUMMER PROGRAM from 1st of May to 15th of
September 2007 .
Guaranteed departures in English rain or shine at 20.00, 7 day´s a week.
Our mission!
To promote and enhance the city of Reykjavik through
providing high quality Trip Trap walking tours, accessible to all, that feature the
legends, history and ghostly tales of the city.
To create an ideal working environment for our employees.Reykjvik
Sightseeing Tours - Jonas Freydal, Jonas
Icelandic Haunted Walks offers a variety of unique
historical Sightseeing walking tours in downtown Reykjavik, Iceland.
We are best known
for our tours of local ghost stories and "darker" history which
are presented in the evening, when the lights are still bright and the
atmosphere is just right for a good ghost story.
Reservations are recommended. Please
call +354 843 6666, or e-Mail:
reservation@hauntediceland.com.
You may recognize our
Trip Trap Tour Guides who wear dark woolen
sweaters and carry a Haunted signs as they lead their group from one haunted spot
to the next.
Reykjavik Trip Trap Walking Tours is a company dedicated to
bringing Reykjavik's past back to life in fun and exciting ways. Too often,
history - especially Icelandic history - is presented as being a dry and
boring subject, ignoring the Icelandic past between 874 and 1944.
Not for us!
We believe that exploring our city's past is a fun and
exciting way to spend a few hours, whether you are a visitor to our city,
or a life long resident. We will offer several tours which try to present
the past as an authentic playground for those who want to know how the modern
city of Reykjavik came to be.
Photographs from the Solstice walk and campfire in
2006!

See the
photographs!
Fact of the matter is that the dead have been on 92% of the tours!
Over the course of the evening you will hear a score of ghostly accounts,
as well as being introduced to the history of downtown Reykjavik and the
surrounding area.
The tour is continually evolving, many of the accounts
originating from past tours.
Perhaps your story will be the next..!!???
Why not you?
Story telling used to be a great part of Icelandic
life (fact). According to Indigenous teachings, people used to learn through
stories. From early evening until rest, once the first snowflake had
fallen, people would gather around a campfire and share true stories about
life. This was before the time of the T.V.
People used to travel far distances to hear the
stories and share in knowledge. Now, once again, people from the community
walk together to hear our stories and to share their own.
Our mission!
To promote and enhance the city of Reykjavik through
providing high quality Trip Trap walking tours, accessible to all, that feature the
legends, history and ghostly tales of the city.
To create an ideal working environment for our employees.
LONG-LOST ICELANDIC ART DISCOVERED
Invaluable artwork,
including 100 smaller paintings, coal drawings,
sketches and two oil paintings by Icelandic artist
Thorvaldur Skúlason (1906-1984), which were believed
lost after the artist escaped France during World
War II, have been found.
The artwork was discovered
by entrepreneur and art enthusiast Jónas Freydal (Jonas
Freydal Thorsteinsson, who has been looking for
Skúlason’s work for many years, Fréttabladid reports.
Skúlason made the drawings
and paintings between spring 1939 and late summer 1940
when he lived in Paris and Tours. In 1940 the artist
fled France with his wife and daughter after the Nazis
invaded the country but left all his possessions behind.
Until now his work was
considered lost forever except for one oil painting that
Dr. Gunnlaugur Thórdarson managed to locate in Tours
many years ago.
Freydal picked up the trail
where Thórdarson left off and has been questioning
inhabitants in Tours about Skúlason’s work for more than
a decade when he finally got lucky and found the
drawings and paintings among objects inherited by the
heirs of painter Erlingur Friis.
Friis had actually exhibited
some of Skúlason’s paintings in Randers, Denmark, in
1990, but news of the exhibition did not reach Iceland.
http://icelandreview.com
or visit icelandic
art
Fine Icelandic Art
www.artibus.is
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