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Click on the picture to watch an audio slideshow of Þorrablót, an Icelandic mid-winter feast. In the past there was no fresh food available at this time of year so people ate dried fish, smoked lamb, putrefied shark and soured blood and liver pudding along with other soured meat products—ram testicles included.
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Fjallabyggd (“Mountain Settlement”) is a skier’s dream. Its slopes are perfect for slaloming and there are also tracks for telemark skiing. Winter sporting enthusiasts can also go ice skating or rent snowmobiles. In summer, Fjallabyggd turns into a paradise for hikers. Read this special promotion about one of Iceland’s best hidden gems.
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A giant halibut caught by German hobby angler Gunther Hansel off Bolungarvík in the West Fjords last summer, measuring 2.5 meters and weighing almost 220 kilos, is the largest halibut ever caught by a sea angler. The record has been widely reported in the international media.
Hansel with his giant halibut. Photo by Reynir Skarsgaard.
This story was originally reported on icelandreview.com in August but at the time it wasn’t certain whether it was a world record, even though it was clear that it was the largest halibut caught in Iceland.
The record has now been confirmed. The previous record was held by Bosse Carlsson and Hans-Olov Nilsson, who caught a 210-kilo halibut off the coast of Norway in 2009.
According to visir.is, it took Hansel two hours to get the halibut onboard with the assistance of five men. The anger, who is 70, told the Daily Mirror that he has been waiting his entire life for such a catch.
Hansel sold his catch at a fish market for more than ISK 450,000 (USD 3,900, EUR 2,900) and shared the profits with his sea angling partners.
The boat on which the lucky sea anglers caught the giant halibut is called Jasmine ÍS-431 and is operated by Víkurbátar ehf. in Bolungarvík. The West Fjords have become a popular destination among sea anglers.
Click here to read icelandreview.com’s previous story about the giant halibut and here to see more pictures of it.
Handball, the village, some food and fun, Finnur Bjarnason, more music, dance in Montana and Huddersfield Town.
A new database dedicated to Icelandic filmmaking has been opened at Kvikmyndavefurinn.is. It features more than 1,200 titles and eight thousand individuals.
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A Parliamentarian asked the Reykjavík Chief of Police for access to data used in the police investigation of whether members of Alþingi instigated the protests and directed protesters who demonstrated outside the parliament building in January 2009.
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It appears that a serious offense has been committed near Grundarfjörður, West Iceland. An exceptionally audacious criminal has had the gall to fish for halibut during the halibut fishing ban.
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The current issue of the quarterly magazine Iceland Review includes for example an interview with world-renowned fashion designer Steinunn Sigurðardóttir as well as features on the successful biotech company ORF Genetics and the hot debate regarding the EU. If you subscribe now, you will receive a photo book by IR editor, photographer Páll Stefánsson of the eruptions in Eyjafjallajökull as a gift. Click here to subscribe to the magazine and here to buy a gift subscription.
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It’s Björk. Say no more.
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… a member of the European Union. That is the biggest question asked in the Republic right now. We asked parliamentarian Ásmundur Einar Daðason and mathematician Pawel Bartoszek ten questions to capture their arguments for and against Iceland becoming member number 28 of the European Union.
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The international recognition that the architecture firm Snøhetta has received is quite unique in a Norwegian context.
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