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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
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