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The Völva on Vestdalsheiði
I remember her. Long before your time, before roads and electric pylons, I flowed wild and unshaped through the valley. I was young then, a stream born from deep in the rock and fed by snowmelt and rain, my rocky bed flanked by lichen and birch. I knew the silence of the heath, only broken by the croaks of ravens and the whispers of the wind, I knew the weight of snow in winter and the release in the spring. I knew the sorrow of loss and the joy of birth. But of all the shape

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Cooking salmon under the glacier.A short tale about memory, loss (and love)
I am smiling as we turn off road number one towards Skaftafell national park on the south coast of Iceland. My husband and I are on one...

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Nature textures
the small details in nature...

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Will it blow big time?
I’m watching from afar the news about the impending eruption in Iceland, near the town of Grindavik and the ever popular Blue Lagoon and...

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Nov 11, 20232 min read


Trees in my DNA
I’ve always had a longing for forests; tall elegant pines and silvery otherworldly beech trees rising from the fern-carpeted floor, aroma...

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Jan 18, 20231 min read
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