Sunday, September 10, 2017



Ásólfsskálakirkja in Iceland.

 Icelandic Lutheran Church
Asolfsskali, Iceland

"Asolfsskali is a farm and a church site at the foothills of Mts. Eyjafjoll (The Island Mountains). According to The Book of Settlements, an Irish Christian, Asolfur alskik arrived in Iceland and built his lodgings there first. The stream running past his dwellings abounded in trout and char immediately after his settlement. Thorgeir Bardarson, the ruler of the area, became aware of this and drove Asolfur away out of spite and envy. Asolfur moved further west and a nearby stream yielded no less catch than the first one. Again, Thorgeir drove him away and he moved still further west, where the same happened. This time he had to leave Þorgeir?s domain and Asolfur moved to the farm Ytri-Holmur on the Akranes Peninsula in the West, where he became a hermit. " (Link 2.) 

" You see buildings like this all over Iceland. The walls are corrugated aluminium, painted white, covering driftwood (there are almost no trees on the island). The roof, more aluminium, is red...,600 × 1,200"  (Link 1.)



Tour Poster

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Photo: Taken  July 2017 by friend Nina Reiniger while on a trip to Iceland with 
               her New York City choir, the New Amsterdam Singers.
Link 1: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Icelandic_Lutheran_church.jpg
Link 2:  https://beiceland.is/asolfsskalakirkja-church



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