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Tyson had had a dream about a snake, and Marcelo read some beans to interpret it, saying that it was about heaven. - IMG 2401
Bárður Snæfellsas was a half-troll / half-man who is the subject of his own Saga. He left Norway, refusing to pay taxes to King Harald during Settlement times, sailing with 30 men for 50 days before reaching Iceland. His Saga functions as more of a parody of the other Icelandic Sagas. This is yet another testament to the Icelandic dark sense of humor. Whereas it was believed that the earliest Icelandic settlers threw two high-seat pillars from their ship to determine where to make landfall, Bárður Snæfellsas defecated and decided to settle wherever his feces washed ashore. This place turned out to be Djúpalónssandur, the beach we visited yesterday. After many adventures, Bárður Snæfellsas disappeared into the ice cap of Snæffelsjökull; henceforth his spirit is inextricably linked to the landscape. - IMG 2402
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Angel and Hoi Ming with a statue of Bárður Snæfellsas, Arnarstapi - IMG 2409
We were in small rooms with hot spring water piped in. We were allowed to use the rooms for one hour. - IMG 2409
We made a quick stop nearby at Öxl to see the place where Axlar-Bjorn, Iceland's first (and only) serial killer, lived. In the 16th century, he opened his farmhouse to tourists as a guesthouse. If he thought hey were rich, he would murder them with an axe and steal their possessions. When he was apprehended, he was executed. They feared that he would return as a ghost, so they dismembered his body and distributed the pieces in various geographic locations to prevent his body from being able to reassemble itself. - IMG 2414
It was the perfect depth for Ian Ivan, and also for Eddy, who had gotten stitches in his lip following a hammock accident and wasn't supposed to get his stitches wet.