Icelandic Sagas The Greatest Hits (excerpt) @ Harpa, Reykjavik, 22/10/2017
Icelandic Sagas - The Greatest Hits
A 75 minute theatrical comedy roller coaster ride through Iceland's literary heritage.
Icelandic Sagas - The Greatest Hits
A 75 minute theatrical comedy roller coaster ride through Iceland’s literary heritage performed at the Iconic Harpa concert hall in downtown Reykjavik.
Presented by two of Icelands finest actors Icelandic Sagas - The Greatest hits is a 75 minute theatrical comedy roller coaster ride through Iceland’s literary heritage
The Icelandic Sagas - Greatest hits.
Created by: Ólafur Egilsson, Lilja Nótt Þórarinsdóttir, Jóhann G. Jóhannson, Björn Ingi Hilmarsson, Aðalbjörg Þóra Árnadóttir.
Directed by: Ólafur Egilsson
Performed by: Lilja Nótt Þórarinsdóttir, Björn Ingi Hilmarsson, Aðalbjörg Þóra Árnadóttir, Björn Ingi HIlmarsson, Sara Dögg Ásgeirsdóttir, Oddur Júlíusson.
Scenery and Costumes: Þórunn Sveinsdóttir, Tómas Jónsson.
Sound and Music: Valdimar “Tarfur” Jóhannsson
Lights: Jóhann Bjarni Pálmason.
Production Assistand: Sigríður Soffía Níelsdóttir
Special Thanks:
The National Theatre of Iceland
Gudmann Þór Bjargmundsson
Mink Studios
Ólöf Erla Einarsdóttir
Esther Talía Casey
Commercial by: Kiddi Kristjáns - augnablik.is
The Icelandic Sagas are the 40 true stories of the first settlers of Iceland - Well, Icelanders say they’re true. Everyone else says: Get out of here!
But everyone agrees they are fantastic tales of worthy men and feisty women from a thousand years ago. Stories of viking raids abroad and blood-feuds at home. Passed down the generations and preserved on calf-skin manuscripts they are the crown jewels of Icelandic culture, amazing stories of ordinary vikings, facing ordinary viking problems - like how to get your wife to stop killing your neighbor’s slaves, what to do when someone calls you a horse-ass-eater and how to sue your brother in-law for not living up to your sister’s... expectations.
Step into the world Hallgerda Long-Pants, Gunnlaug Serpent Tongue, Killer-Glum, Harald with the great hair-do, Mjoll the-biggest-of-all-women-who-were-not-giants and Leif the Lucky who found America… and lost it again.
Never heard of them? Come and get to know them all in Icelandic Sagas - The Greatest Hits. Be thrilled, entertained and intrigued - and find out what it really means to toss a pair of blue pants into an Icelanders face - really.
Icelandic Sagas The Greatest Hits in 75min
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Icelandic Sagas a 75 minute theatrical comedy roller coaster ride through Iceland’s literary heritage performed at the Iconic Harpa concert hall in downtown Reykjavik in the summer of 2016.
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Pearls of Icelandic Song
Pearls of Icelandic Song in Harpa, Reykjavik 15th of July 2014.
All Icelandic sagas in one go
Reykjavik Rising
In October 2008 Iceland was hit with one of the biggest financial disasters any nation in the world had experienced. In response, citizens took to the streets creating what is now known as the “Pots and Pans Revolution”.
In response to widespread media silence and a growing global trend towards people-led movements, this documentary explores how and why the people of Iceland resisted the measures imposed by their government following the crisis of 2008 and how they forced their government to resign in an attempt to forge a new political path.
Filmed in Reykjavik between 2012 and 2014, the documentary meets the instigators of the revolution and follows the most important National Referendum in Iceland’s history. Giving the Icelandic people the opportunity to decide whether to support a constitution that had been created through a popular grassroots movement. Through this we explore the Icelanders' story of their nation and their revolution but also what lessons can be learned globally from their experiences.
In light of a growing international trend towards grassroots movements crossing over into mainstream politics. This documentary is a timely portrayal of one such movement and their struggle to change the face of democracy.
FESTIVALS AND SCREENINGS:
Premiere - Tolpuddle Radical Film Festival - 18th July 2015
Reel News event – Stoke Newington, London - 10th September 2015
Positive Money (Hammersmith Group) Film Screening - December 2015
Cinematters event – Dalston, London - 3rd January 2016
Observatoire Diversité Culturelle – Les Lilas, Paris - 20th January 2016
Positive Money (Edinburgh Group) Film Screening, Brass Monkey, Edinburgh - 22nd March 2016
New Cross and Deptford Free Film Festival – 26th April 2016
Institute of Possibility, San Francisco - May 2016
Norwich Radical Film Festival - 13th July 2016
Seventh Annual Conference in Promoting Political Economy, Lisbon - 7th September 2016
Cine Pobre Film Festival, La Paz, Mexico - 18th October 2016
Document One International Human Rights Film Festival, Glasgow - 23rd October 2016
Respect Belfast Human Rights Film Festival - 10th January 2017
Plymouth Radical Cinema - 9th May 2017
Brazilian International Labour Film Festival - May 18th 2017
Workers Unite Film Festival NYC - 23rd May 2017
Please contact us if you would like to arrange a screening.
What are Icelandic Sagas? | #IntrotoIceland
Iceland has a long history of storytelling, a facet of their culture that remains strong to this day. Icelandic sagas took shape between the 12th and 14th centuries. While some European cultures were honing their architectural skills, Icelanders found their strides in the written word. Icelandic sagas are stories of conflict and woe, romance and the great human struggle. Though the sagas were written close to 1,000 years ago, their impact on the everyday life of Icelandic people is still very strong.
What is particularly unique about the sagas is that they portray a newly-forming society in a previously uninhabited land, so thanks to these sagas we know about the first settlers and societal development over the centuries. These sagas were written in a style closer to modern day novels rather than structured as historical chronicles, and the tales of strong men and women with their turbulent endeavors told in colorful language make the stories so attractive to readers.
To this day, Icelanders place a huge emphasis on literature. Reykjavik was named a UNESCO City of Literature in 2011! Icelanders read more books per capita than any other country in the world, and 1 in 10 Icelanders will publish a book at some point in their lives. There is still great respect for those who write and tell stories for a living, and books are the most popular Christmas present!
Iceland Naturally is taking you through all the aspects of Iceland's culture! Check out our channel to learn more about the different aspects of Iceland's culture, from cuisine and cocktails to literature and art! Share your thoughts with us on social media using #IntroToIceland.
New translations of The Sagas of Icelanders
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This edition is intended for readers, says Kristof Magnusson of a new German translation of The Sagas of Icelanders, due out this fall with the publishing house S. Fischer Verlag.
The edition will contain new translations of all The Sagas of Icelanders in four volumes, as well as an accompanying volume of annotations. Magnusson is one of 15 translators working on this momentous project, which is one of the central events of Iceland's appearance as Guest of Honour at the Frankfurt Book Fair. Magnusson's job was to translate The Saga of Grettir the Strong-- the last Icelanders' saga to be written, and in many ways the most peculiar. I always found Grettir an especially interesting character, he says. He doesn't fit into his era. If Grettir had been born in another time, he could have become a real hero, but according to the values of his contemporaries he was just too wild and unruly.
The sagas are also simultaneously being translated into Danish, Norwegian and Swedish, and due to be published in those languages in 2012. Jóhann Sigurðsson of the publishing house Saga oversees the project. He was also behind the 1997 complete English translation of the Icelanders' sagas, which laid the groundwork for the upcoming German translation.
We feel that the sagas are world literature, says the scholar Örnólfur Thorsson, who was involved in publishing the 1985 complete edition of the sagas in Icelandic. He then went on to collaborate with Jóhann on organizing a nine-volume Penguin edition of 23 sagas. Örnólfur now serves on an advisory board for the Nordic translations currently underway. Other members of the board are Vésteinn Ólason and Jónas Kristjánsson, former directors of the Árni Magnússon Institute; Viðar Hreinsson, editor of the English translation; and Gísli Sigurðsson, publishing director of the new Scandinavian translations.
Composition: Þorsteinn J.
Music: Einar Scheving, Cycles.
Subtitles: Steingrímur Karl Teague.
Iceland adventures (Viking paradise)
Exploring the entire country of Iceland day by day.
Icelandic Sagas (In Our Time)
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Icelandic Sagas. First written down in the 13th century, the sagas tell the stories of the Norse settlers of Iceland, who began to arrive on the island in the late 9th century. They contain some of the richest and most extraordinary writing of the Middle Ages, and often depict events known to have happened in the early years of Icelandic history, although there is much debate as to how much of their content is factual and how much imaginative. Full of heroes, feuds and outlaws, with a smattering of ghosts and trolls, the sagas inspired later writers including Sir Walter Scott, William Morris and WH Auden. With: Carolyne Larrington Fellow and Tutor in Medieval English Literature at St John's College, Oxford Elizabeth Ashman Rowe University Lecturer in Scandinavian History at the University of Cambridge Emily Lethbridge Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Árni Magnússon Manuscripts Institute in Reykjavík Producer: Thomas Morris.
Strange sounds: Reykjavik, Iceland 23.12.2011 0:33 (local time)
Strange sounds coming from a far, from the north side, filmed on a balcony in reykjavik, on the video they are hard to notice, but trough the headphones you can hear it clearly (turn the volume up as much as you can). First I didn't know what to think of it, it sounded like gigant ship rubbing on some rocks or large piece of metal rubbing on something hard like a concrete, the only problem was that the sound came from direction of the mountain ESJA so ship theory was not very racional including frequency of how many times this sound was repeated, then I thought it was an excavator clearing streets from the snow, but it was too loud and I never heard anything like this before. In fact I've ignored it after all the next day and I never would put this video on YT because I was too sceptic about it, but today I saw few videos with the same thing happening around the world. I have more videos with this sound recorded, Soon I'll try to upload them as well.
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Reykjavik Classics in Eldborg Harpa Summer 2017
Beethoven La partenza WoO 124 performed by soprano Thora Einarsdottir and pianist Nina Margret Grimsdottir
The Sagas of Icelanders (ser)
10 Facts About The Icelandic Sagas
10 Facts About The Icelandic Sagas.
Music:
'Valkyriesletten' - Asynje
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Medieval Icelandic Sagas | UIcelandX on edX
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Learn about the Icelandic Sagas, the characteristic literary genre of Medieval Iceland comprising roughly 40 texts.
The Medieval Icelandic Sagas is an introductory course on the single most characteristic literary genre of Medieval Iceland. Mainly written in the 13th century, the Icelandic Sagas are comprised of roughly 40 texts of varying length.
In this course, you will learn about three Sagas, written at different times, with the aim of giving an overview of the writing period and the genre as a whole. These are Eyrbyggja Saga, Njáls Saga and Grettis Saga. We will explore the landscape and archaeology of Iceland to see how they can add to our understanding of the Sagas as well as take an in-depth look at the most memorable characters from the Sagas.
Participants will have opportunities to engage with an online community of Icelandic and international scholars, learners and others to explore topics relating to Icelandic and Nordic Medieval history beyond the course curriculum.
What you'll learn
The history of Saga research since the 19th century.
The fundamentals of Old Norse textual criticism.
The benefits of exploring landscape and archaeological finds when reading the Sagas.
Some of the most important character archetypes that reoccur in the Sagas.
The interplay of Norse mythology and Christianity in the Sagas.
Aspects of the supernatural in the Sagas.
Take this course for free on edx.org.
Norðurljós // Harpa Concert Hall
This is Norðurljós concert hall -which means the northen lights or aurora borealis.
This is an acoustic hall.
Excellent for classical music, but also good for jazz or other kind of performances.
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Reykjavik: The Ultimate Destination for a Party Weekend
Hit the Ice Bar, a bar made of… well, ice, of course, and then join the “runtur,” Iceland’s weekend version of a street party. Be prepared to meet an international cast of characters and leave with enough wild stories to fill your very own Saga. It’s a no-holds-barred weekend, brought to you by Europe’s “it” party destination. Find out more at: