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Located on the edge of Vatnajökull glacier, Jökulsárlón lake provides spectacular views of the glacier.
The Vík i Myrdal Church on the South Coast in Vík, Iceland. It's located on the Ring Road. #Iceland #Vík #SouthCoast #VíkiMyrdalChurch #church
Eyjafjallajökull {Eyjafjalla Glacier} on Iceland's South Coast. It can be seen on clear days from the Ring Road. #Iceland #Eyjafjallajökull #glacier #SouthCoast
Imagen ralentizada de esta cascada, que me recuerda a la sensación de cuando pones agua con gas en un vaso. En verano el país tendría que cambiar el nombre Iceland a waterland.
Slowed-down image of this waterfall, which reminds me of the feeling when you put sparkling water in a glass. In summer the country would have to change the name Iceland to waterland.
Imatge alentida d'aquesta cascada, que em recorda a la sensació de quan poses aigua amb gas en un got. A l'estiu el país hauria de canviar el nom Iceland a Waterland .
Goðafoss is a waterfall in northern Iceland. It is located along the country's main ring road at the junction with the Sprengisandur highland road, about 45 minutes from Akureyri, Iceland's second largest city. The water of the river Skjálfandafljót falls from a height of 12 metres over a width of 30 metres. A 1.8-mile hiking trail loops around the waterfall area
The origin of the waterfall's name is not completely clear. In modern Icelandic, the name can be read either as "waterfall of the goð (pagan idols)" or "waterfall of the goði (chieftain)." Linguist and placename expert Svavar Sigmundsson suggests that the name derives from two crags at the falls which resemble pagan idols. In 1879-1882, a myth was published in Denmark according to which the waterfall was named when the lawspeaker Þorgeir Ljósvetningagoði made Christianity the official religion of Iceland in the year 999 or 1000. Upon returning home from the Alþingi, Þorgeir supposedly threw his statues of the Norse gods into the waterfall. However, although the story of Þorgeir's role in the adoption of Christianity in Iceland is preserved in Ari Þorgilsson's Íslendingabók, no mention is made of Þorgeir throwing his idols into Goðafoss. The legend appears to be a nineteenth-century fabrication. Nevertheless, a window in Akureyrarkirkja, the main church at Akureyri, illustrates this story.
MS Goðafoss, an Icelandic ship named after the waterfall, used to transport both freight and passengers. It was sunk by a German U-Boat in World War II, resulting in great loss of life.
In 2020, the waterfall was granted protected status.
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