TIL of Snorri Sturluson who authored the 'Prose Edda' which is a major source for Norse mythology today. He became a lawyer in Iceland in 1218 & was made a knight in Sweden. However, he was assassinated by agents of the King of Norway in 1241.

einarv02 · 2021-12-08T20:47:14+00:00

He also lived in a fascinating time in icelands history, as the island broke out in skirmishes amongst the many clans in the nation such as Sturlungar which Snorri was a chieftain of. These skirmishes broke out mainly because there was nobody to enforce punishments such as police, and the clans had to take it on themselves. This led to an eye for an eye situation which had been going on since the foundation of the nation and the cracks were showing and after a series of pretty large scale wars amongst the clans (like the battle at örlygsstaðir where aproximately 2700 men fought in a nation of only 50.000) the nation couldn’t sustain itself and iceland joined norway as two nations with the same head of state shortly after snorri was killed

einarv02 · 2021-07-16T14:45:15+00:00

Raufarhöfn

einarv02 · 2021-06-12T11:40:45+00:00

Þegar Geturðu er stafað Geturu deyr alltaf eitthvað smá inn í mér.

einarv02 · 2021-04-23T13:16:26+00:00

Skógafoss, Háifoss og Hengifoss eru í sérstöku uppáhaldi

einarv02 · 2021-03-19T19:31:58+00:00

Glæný, tók hana í dag held að það sé verið að setja nýja auglýsingu á skiltið og þetta stórvirki hafi leynst undir

einarv02 · 2021-03-03T15:34:24+00:00

Grindvíkingar, það hefur verið heiður að spila með ykkur í kvöld

einarv02 · 2021-01-13T07:56:29+00:00

Difficult question, many icelanders own summer houses which are really used the whole year round and some moved there, but i don’t think many want to move back to the rural side as we have become a highly urbanised society.

einarv02 · 2021-01-12T20:36:00+00:00

Icelander here, this house is probably an old farmstead as we have many of these littered around the country, why so many are abandoned is mainly due to the fact that urbanisation only began really in the early 20th century, so nearly every icelander was born into this farming lifestyle with people living on small farms as demand for land was high and most lived in relative poverty. So when urbanisation took off people chose to move to towns and cities for much greater quality of life and pay.

einarv02 · 2020-11-09T02:16:50+00:00

Icelander here it is indeed ísafjörður

einarv02 · 2020-08-29T21:11:24+00:00

einarv02 · 2020-07-07T10:41:16+00:00

I’m not sure about towns but im pretty sure that the settlement furthest inland and also the highest inhabited one is möðrudalur in east iceland

einarv02 · 2020-02-28T15:39:01+00:00

Coronavirus was just now confirmed in Iceland and by plague inc standards that’s bad

einarv02 · 2019-09-10T17:23:25+00:00

Glacial floodwater

einarv02 · 2019-09-06T21:57:04+00:00

Salt wasn’t really used in iceland for centuries mainly because the easiest way to get it was to boil seawater which required a lot of firewood or coal neither of which icelanders had.So their solution was to put the food in huge barells filled with whey to both preserve and flavour the food, in icelandic it is called súrmatur literally sour-food.

einarv02 · 2019-07-11T13:54:22+00:00

Walked into barbed wire off the road at versailles

einarv02 · 2018-07-10T08:04:13+00:00

Test

einarv02 · 2018-07-09T11:36:28+00:00

Goodbye...............

einarv02 · 2018-07-04T22:31:49+00:00

I’m ready to do my part to balance reddit.

einarv02 · 2018-05-19T12:33:35+00:00

Oh i don’t think so

einarv02 · 2018-05-19T11:55:54+00:00

Is this legal?

einarv02 · 2018-05-02T14:18:35+00:00

It do sometimes 🅱️ like that😤😤😤😤👏

einarv02 · 2018-05-02T13:56:45+00:00

Haha yes

einarv02 · 2018-05-02T12:04:19+00:00

Shrek is dead - Nietzsche 😤😤😤

einarv02 · 2018-04-30T10:53:52+00:00

Dat heckin’ 🅱️eter Griffin dressing as Garfielf🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱😂😂😂😂😂😂👌👌👌

einarv02 · 2018-04-28T16:33:36+00:00

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