Iceland Summer Solstice Tour 2006 - Photo Album

Many, many thanks to the 50+ guest´s that came on the tour!

Photographs from our Summer Solstice tour in June 2006.

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Photographs from the Original Haunted Walk of Reykjavik.

 

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Breath taking sunset.

 

 

Light blue Mountain Keilir..

 

 

Ghost stories at Adalstrćti. There is life after death!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Love was in the air. Or in icelandic, međ ástina í eyrunum!

 

 

 

 

The Settlement farm at 871 museum could host 80 people standing and drinking beer in the

year 872.

 

 

 

 

Bring the Bowl, translates as SKÁL in Icelandic.

We are now located in the heart of this historical city.

The first permanent settlement in Iceland by Nordic people is believed to have been established in Reykjavík by Ingólfur Arnarson around 870; this is described in Landnámabók, or the Book of Settlement.

Steam from hot springs in the region is supposed to have inspired Reykjavík's name, as Reykjavík translates to "Bay of Smokes".

Reykjavík is not mentioned in any medieval sources except as a regular farm land but around 1750-1800 was the beginning of urban concentration here.

In 1752, the King of Denmark donated the estate of Reykjavík to the Innréttingar Corporation; the name comes from Danish "indretninger," meaning enterprise.

 

 

Sunrise in Reykjavik at 03.00

 

 

 

Maria guide of Haunted Iceland tells about the origin of Icelandic Hidden People.

 

Stories about Grjotathorp, Ston Part of Reykjavik.

 

 

 

 

Prayers of the Hidden People and the Speach og grettir the Great behing the Icelandic

Parliament dating back to the year 930.

 

The Hidden People.

"Last and not least they pray for 1260 Elf families and 1944 families of hidden people that will be be flooded by the Hálslón reservoir. "

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From the speech of Grettir the Great!

 

I Grettir the Great want to remind the parliament that I am an odd hero, almost an anti-hero.

My intentions are not necessarily bad, but he is bad-tempered and often does things that

I later might regret: I am also very unlucky so that some of my actions have very bad

consequences.

Great Parliament of Icelanders, newer underestimate the powers of a modern Viking Spirit.

Blessed is he who, in the name of the Parliament and good will, shepherds the weak  through the valley of the darkness. For the Parliament is truly not a brother's keeper or a finder of lost children.

And I will strike down upon thee with great revenge and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my country.

 And you will know I am the Viking Spirit if or when or if I lay my curse upon you."

Remember Icelander's the Parliament is meant to be a two way communication venue!

ICELAND 1000 YEARS, REMEMBER THAT SMALL VIKINGS WILL LIVE HERE IN 1000 YEARS!

 

Stories, in Stone part of Reykjavik.

 

 

This Ghost came on the tour!!

 

 

Great stories told by on of our guides.

 

 

 

 

 

Step lightly my friends you are standing on 30 generation´s of icelalanders in this cemetery.

Story from the year 1000 at Athingi the old Parliament.

"I dare mock the gods.
I believe that Freyja is a bitch,
And that Odin in a dog,
Or else the other way around.

In the meantime, the chieftains meeting at the Althing outlawed Hjalti Skeggjason for having blasphemed Freyja and Odin by calling them a bitch and a dog in his poem. "

 

Campfire before the bathing.

 

 

 

Before the a story

 

After a story!

 

 

 

Hidden people??

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cold night in Iceland! Or Just feeling happy.

 

 

60+ names for the devil in Icelandic, one amazing fact!

It is difficult to say how many words there are for devil in Icelandic. Most of the known examples owe their existence to the fact that it was not considered proper to name the devil, so he was referred to by nicknames or by mutation of his name. In the Icelandic thesaurus the following words are listed under fjandi (devil):

andskoti , ansakorniđ, árakorniđ , ári , defill, deli, défsi, déll , déskoti , dífill, djangi , djanki, djöfsi , sá fetótti, fjandakorniđ, fjári, freistarinn, Gamli í Niđurkoti, grefill, jónskoti, kölski, ólukki, paufi, paur, pauri, pokur, rćkall, rćkarl, sá í neđra, sá vondi, skolli, skrambi, skratti, skufsi, tremill, ţremill, sá eineygđi , flugnahöfđingi, sá gamli, sá gráskjótti, sá hrosshćfđi, sá kolbíldótti, kolbíldur, ljótikallinn, myrkrahöfđingi, óvinur, satan, vomur, bölvćttur, drýsildjöfull, drýsill, illdéfli, ankoti, ansi, antoti, asskolli, asskoti, assvíti.

This is a total of 61 distinct names for the devil, but not all such words appear in writing and thus difficult to collect all the instances.

 

 

 

Viking beer drinking at the beach.

 

 

Oh, Canada!

An elf is a mythical creature of Norse mythology which survived in northern European folklore.

 

Originally a race of minor gods of nature and fertility, elves are often pictured as youthful-seeming

men and women of great beauty living in forests and other natural places, underground, or in

wells and springs.

 

 

Ghost stories of  Bruun the Butcher who is believed to have killed 60 Icelanders.

 

 

Baby it´s cold in there!

© The above image is a personal photo of Haunted Iceland, please ask for permission before

using in public.

 

 

Solstice Bathing, Ingrid from Norway, before entering the cold waters.

© The above image is a personal photo of Haunted Iceland, please ask for permission before

using in public.

 

 

Sunset at  12.04

 

 

Two guy´s in a romantic walk at dawn, it takes two to tango.

Sunrise at 02.50