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Sindri & the Glacial Picnickers TOURIST OF THE YEAR Sindri & The Glacial Picnickers Sin Fang made Album of the Year, Song of the Year, and is posing as the Tourist of the Year. THE GRAPEVINE MUSIC AWARDS Issue 01 × 2014 January 10 - February 6 YOUR FREE COPY The Reykjavík Grapevine Issue 1 — 2014 2 Editorial | Anna Andersen Many Icelanders around me were pretty upset last “reports” predictions from these völvas. “I mean, ev- didn’t make it to Iceland, leaving Icelanders in the ASK YOUR VÖLVA month when the Associated Press ran a story about eryone basically knows it’s just a bunch of journalists dark, unexposed to rationalism. an “elf lobby” joining environmentalist in their strug- having fun, using their purported insight to predict The real problem with the elf story, as I Anna’s 36th Editorial gle to block road construction across a lava field. the future,” he wrote. see it, is the fact that it’s been so hammed up. Whata The story, which contained some factual Feeling unsure about this, I called the was once a quirky and enjoyable part of our cultural errors, played up the idea that Icelanders (A) believe editor of Vikan, one of Iceland’s oldest magazines, heritage has now been overplayed. We’re sick of the in elves and (B) take this belief so seriously that they which has been printing völva’s predictions since the elf story. We’re sick of having to explain it to people might halt road construction for fear of retribution 1970s. She confirmed, Vikan has always worked with who read a few lines from some international wire from the elves that supposedly have a church there real seers and the one the magazine currently works service looking for traction. somewhere. And thanks to this story or any of the elf with has been with them for the last 10 years. At the same time, the Icelandic media stories that have run in the past, people all over the Vikan was for a long time the only publi- can hardly be up in arms over the foreign media’s world now think Icelanders are a bunch of kooks. cation printing völva’s predictions and their völva is- elf stories when it runs annual “reports” from seers. The truth is though, Icelanders are a bit sue is always one of their best selling ones, if not the Isn’t that also a bit kooky? kooky and it seems to me that they don’t think any- best selling one of the year. This year, Vikan's völva thing is wrong with that until they’ve become the predicts shitty weather, two volcanic eruptions and butt of an international joke. another scandal on par with the Vodafone leak. And Take for instance the peculiar tradition perhaps she’s worth taking seriously, as she cor- that local newspapers and magazines here have rectly predicted the turmoil that we’ve seen at RÚV. TRACK OF THE ISSUE of reporting “the future.” As we round out each lap I have no idea what the other media out- around the sun, Icelandic reporters reach out to lets do, and perhaps the majority of people don’t their publication’s seer, also known as a völva, to really believe in the power of these völvas, but that gather her predictions for the coming year. doesn’t make the tradition any less kooky if you ask I’m talking magazine cover stories and me. I highly doubt the Greeks and Italians are read- articles on our most widely read news sites that ing reports from sibyl in their local newspapers. Just recount predictions from a typically anonymous imagine if the New York Times or LA Times were source, who may or may not have the ability to see reporting this kind of stuff. the future. What’s more, media outlets, including The best explanation I’ve heard for why Iceland’s national broadcaster RÚV, report on what these “beliefs” persist in Iceland came from Mag- the völvas at the other outlets are reporting. nús Skarphéðinsson, the headmaster of Iceland’s Elf At this point in an earlier draft of my edi- School. He believes that it has to do with the fact that torial, our Editor-in-Chief Haukur S. Magnússon left this nation was long an isolated island in the mid- me a comment suggesting that I was overstating dle of the North Atlantic. Thus, the Enlightenment, the reality of the situation by writing that the media which spread through Europe in the 18th Century, We thought we’d explain. We’re ripping the idea off from Sin Fang: “Young Boys” the Icelandair magazine. Go read that magazine if you (often written as ae) is pro- What’s The Deal nounced like the i in tide. can. It’s free. æ Download NOW at www.grapevine.is We like spelling things using Icelandic letters like With Those Crazy ‘æ’ and ‘þ’ and also those crazy accents over the vowels. From Sin Fang's third solo album, 'Flowers,' Like Icelandair’s inflight magazine—IcelandairInfo—says, (often written as d) is pronounced Icelandic Letters Yo? the Icelandic language can use accents on all of the like the th in there (which we awarded Album of the Year, see page vowels, making them look all unique, like this: á, é, í, ó, ð 16), the song “Young Boys” embodies the crazy ú, ö, ý (the accent also changes the pronounciation of addictive indie vibe Sin Fang is known for. The the letters. The á in “kjáni” sounds quite different from simple chorus about young boys smoking in the the a in “asni”, for instance). We also have an additional (often written as th) is pronounced ÐðÞþÆæÖö woods is repeated through the song, overlaid three letters. As IcealandairInfo notes: þ like the th in think” with colourful arrangements of tambourines, harmonies, a subtle electric bass, keys and nu- Here Is Your Kreisí Æcelandic Frase For Þis Issue! merous other effects. This song will make you “Fyrirgefðu, en er ekki kominn tími á að (Fyr-ir-gev-thu, en err eh-kke, come-in team- Pardon, isn't it time to throw out your want to put on the oldest clothes you still fit into and think back to the days when your childhood henda jólatrénu” eh ow ath hen-dah yol-ah-tr-yeah-n-eh?) Christmas tree? turned into your teens. 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