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Archangels and Angelica

0 Hornstrandir, where Thorsgeir clung onto the angelica roots so as not to fall. Courtesy: Islande24

A half crazed warrior Thorgeir and his poet brother Thormod were in the Icelandic mountains picking angelica for their soups, salads, and medicinal remedies.  At a place known as Thorgeir’s ledge, near Hornstrandir in the Western Fjords where the …

By ajh September 26, 2016
In Iceland, News & features

Feast and Famine: Icelandic “Moss”

0 lava field

In Iceland, vast swathes of silvery moss spread over endless stretches of land which has been ripped up by volcanic shifts and eruptions.  Unlike the chaotic, jagged basalt boulders and the ravines beneath, the moss lies like a smooth blanket, or …

By ajh September 10, 2016
In Iceland, News & features
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