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By Noosha
Today was more cerebral than picturesque. Indeed! So we do apologize for the lack of scenery pictures.
Today we visited a couple of museums. The first was an archaelogical dig of an early Viking settlement circa 870ish AD. The outline of mud-brick that was formerly the wall wasn't as interesting as the design and use of visual technology in the museum. The wall was covered in early grassland imagery of Reykjavik with digital screens that showed ghosts of Vikings doing what Vikings did to survive (killing sheep, shoveling dirt, etc.). You could also see maps and images that tracked the ethnic and linguistic roots of early settlers (in short, Norwegians and Irish slaves/wives). We would recommend the Early Settlement museum for the experience and not so much the dig, unless you're quite the buff.
The second museum was the Cultural House where they display Icelandic sagas from medieval times. VERY interesting. With pure dumb luck we caught the only tour that's offered once a week describing the manuscripts, including how they were made, their contents and how they've influenced more recent history. (Thor from Marvel comics, anyone?) The sagas not only told the story of early Icelanders, but also recorded key historical periods of Eurasia such as the rule of Alexander the Great. We felt incredibly priviledged to be able to look at these dozen manuscripts. It seems like something that would be hidden in a deep vault of some unknown European library to be written about centuries later by Dan Brown.
The rest of the day we window-shopped (Reykjavik is fantastically stylish), and ate street food.
I (Noosha) don't normally care for hot dogs or pylsur as the Icelanders call them, but these were admittedly delicious.
As we were walking home we stumbled across the waffle truck that we had been searching for since day one. You can see how excited we are. (pics coming soon. maybe.)
That's it! Today we went to Vestmannayjaer. We'll definitely have some pics to share from there.
