Alexandra Sif Herleifsdottir, 19 years old, left, and Audur Elin Sigurdardottir, right, sitting and talking at a coffee house in downtown Reykjavik
Posted on 01/31/2015 6:20:04 PM PST by lightman
Alexandra Sif Herleifsdottir, 19 years old, left, and Audur Elin Sigurdardottir, right, sitting and talking at a coffee house in downtown Reykjavik
How about a combo of the first two minus the constant “human interaction”
and screw the Iranians?
Up Helly Aa in Lerwick, Shetland is how it's done.
A couple of pics but you have to look up the details and videos. Basically they spend a year building a full size Viking ship. On the last Tuesday of January they drag it through the streets in a torch lit procession. At the end the ship is burned.
Lots of parties, food and adult beverage along the way.
The Norse version of Burning Man!
This rather brush fire my dad started as part of a land clearing project burned rather nicely.
Edited together. YT compression doesn’t help in this case:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCTroxE1EIA
Alexandra Sif Herleifsdottir, 19 years old, left, and Audur Elin Sigurdardottir, right, sitting and talking at a coffee house in downtown Reykjavik
So, talking about a Danish pastime, but shows pictures from Iceland? Are there no pretty blonde girls in Denmark?
Seriously, though, there’s nothing like firelight for me to chase away winter blues from longer nights and shorter days. A big fire in the fireplace if cold enough to warrant, or outdoors in the backyard fire pit if not cold enough to warrant. There’s just something about it, the dancing flames, the color. Very comforting.
Saunas, rolling around in the snow nekkid, these things help break the monotony.
Very interesting, thanks for posting this.
I did the cozy thing, and I’ve been doing the Iranian thing every day since it stopped being dark when I’ve left work, now I have to try the connect with nature thing!
BTW, those two gals got nothing on the two beautiful Georgia (US) gals that served us in an Applebee’s years ago.
I said to hubby, now I know what they mean when they say “Georgia Peaches”!
And may God continue to bless the USA.
According to more recent theories, the two types of skull found in Mesolithic graves do not suggest the presence of two different populations as was formerly believed, but rather they indicate a wide degree of genetic variation within one and the same population. All in all, the peoples of the northeast were very different from those of the west. The decisive difference is in the teeth.
East Europeans have small teeth compared with the relatively large teeth of the Scandinavian, a peculiarity deriving from an age-old genetic distinction. Ancient skulls tell us that the early settlers of east Europe were mostly descendants of an ancient east European population which lived in prolonged isolation from the Scandinavians. Perhaps the "Siberian" element in Finnish genes is, in fact, east European in origin?
DNA studies of Iceland show that the male DNA haplogroups come from Scandanavia and the female DNA halpogroups come from Ireland. The Vikings stopped in Ireland and grabbed all the pretty women and took them to Iceland with them.
For real!
The lack of D3 is why we're White.
"Cold-weather wear and the sun's angle in the winter sky limit how much ultraviolet light reaches the skin. This can add up to a deficiency in production of vitamin D, which might explain why respiratory infections are common and severe in winter.
I definitely fall in the Hygge category. Always have. Minus the interlopers. Just like tomorrow - it’s going to be a cold rain all day, all night. We got plenty of candles, loaded up on some firewood and adult spirits, and I’ll be in my plaid flannel shirt, lounging pants, and Muk Luks, lording over a crock pot of chili or sweet-and-sour meatballs for Super Bowl dinner while my wife is wrapped in her new fleece throw on the sofa.
However, I wouldn’t turn those two blondes away if they wanted to come for a visit.............
I like to get on my bicycle and ride. Best time of year.
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