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THE NEVER BEFORE HEARD HISTORY OF ODIN'S RAVEN MAGIC, IN WHICH... ALSO IN THIS ISSUE: HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES IN PROTEST ARRESTS THE ASCENDANCY OF ULTRAFLEX THE GOVERNMENT-SANCTIONED AMOUNT OF YULE LAD CONTENT ... & MORE COVER PHOTO: Based on stills from the Odins Raven Magic The cover image is a concert recording in home-brewed homage Paris, 2008. to a faint memory of what mid-century Photocollage by scandinavian film Sveinbjörn Pálsson. posters looked like. 08: PROTEST = ARREST 11: SIGUR MF RÓS 31: ICE CAVES!!!1! 07: Hel, Half-Zombie 18: Ultraflex Makes You 28: COVID-Christmas Full-Sex Icon Sweat Buffets 06: High On Highlands 26: #YuleLadHoliday 30: Holiday-Scopes First EDITORIAL New Year Di!erent Mankind What will change in the new year? Well, But we were also reminded of how seem like a distant dream. That every- can’t be underestimated. This our wake everything—or not so much. The whole underfunded our healthcare system is. thing and everyone will get back on up call. And from what I have seen and world connected for a moment over Icelanders of my generation have been their feet. That tourism will come back. read and experienced myself in this the dreaded coronavirus. We saw what raised up to believe it was the best in the That we will be able to visit our loved pandemic, I’m more optimistic than leaders and nations are made of. And world. It is not. The reason is decades of ones when we want. And that the econ- pessimistic. Let’s wake up, do the work what’s perhaps more important, we politicians underfunding the system in omy will bloom. and make a better world in memory of were reminded of how united we are hopes of privatising it bit by bit. It will be easy to put this behind us those that have died from COVID-19. at the end of the day. Scientists broke The pandemic is also a rude awaken- and keep on going like nothing ever Merry Christmas and happy new records developing a vaccine within a ing to the fact that the whole world can happened. But this is when the real year. Thank you all for reading our year. That’s no small feat for science or be flipped upside down in a matter of work starts. We have to reorganize how magazine and supporting the Reykjavík humankind. weeks. Nothing stays the same forever. we are doing things. Global warming is Grapevine. The pandemic exposed our worst and It’s a simple sentence to write down, but still on the rise. The gap between the our best at the same time. Icelanders no one understands it fully until we’ve rich and the poor is still growing. And Valur Grettisson can be proud of their politicians, who been slapped across the face with it. the importance of good health care that Editor-in-chief listened to top scientists when needed. Soon, the hope is that the virus will can take care of our brothers and sisters Megan Massey is Hannah Jane Cohen is Pollý is a hard-work- Iona Rangeley-Wilson Sveinbjörn Pálsson Art Bicnick is an Andie Sophia Fontaine Jess Distill is a Valur Grettisson is an award-winning based out of Iceland ing journalist by day is an English gradu- is our Art Director. international man has lived in Iceland musician, artist and an award-winning QWOC poet from by way of New York. and an enthusiastic ate from the UK. She He's responsible for of mystery. He since 1999 and has wannabe writer from journalist, author Bedford, England. She She's known for her ball-catcher by writes children’s the design of the moves like a shadow been reporting since St. Albans, England. As and playwright. He writes about women, love of Willa Ford, night. A four-year-old books, but has de- magazine and the through the subcul- 2003. They were the a long time lover of has been writing for magic, and the Indian David Foster Wallace, dachshund mix with cided to also go into cover photography. tures and soirees first foreign-born Iceland, and recent Icelandic media since diaspora. She recently and other such an IQ of a five-year- journalism on the When he's not work- of Reykjavík, never member of the copywriting diploma 2005. He was also a graduated from the "intellectuals." Her old human, Pollý has absolutely minuscule ing here, he DJs as still, o%en ghosting Icelandic Parliament, graduate, Jess came theatre critic and University of London visionary work is been the o"cial o#-chance that her Terrordisco, hosts the scene in a pu# an experience they to the Grapevine to one of the hosts of with a BA in Creative known for expand- Chief Of Morale at first book doesn’t the Funkþátturinn of blue smoke—the recommend for expand her writing the cultural program, Writing. She is cur- ing the definitions of the Grapevine for immediately turn radio show, or sits at exhaust fumes of the anyone who wants portfolio whilst see- 'Djöflaeyjan' at RÚV. rently in law school. emotion, introspec- eight months and is her into a multimil- a table in a Laugarda- elusive, well-travelled to experience a ing if she could hack Valur is not to be tion, and above all a regular contribu- lionaire. Her hobbies lur café, drinking Bicnick Mini. workplace where it as an Icelandic confused with the else, taste. Hannah is tor to the Grape- include getting up copious amounts of colleagues work tire- resident. dreadful football club also the current Drag vine Newscast on late and indulging in co#ee and thinking lessly to undermine that bears the same King of Iceland, HANS. YouTube. Woof. illusions of grandeur. about fonts. each other. name. ExperienceExperience thethe amazingamazing Langjökull Find us: glacierglacier tunnelstunnels #intotheglacier Daily departures from www.intotheglacier.is Húsafell, Reykjavík and Þingvellir National Park Made for life In the Westfjords of Iceland, what we call “downtown” others might refer to as “the Arctic.” Call it what you will. We just live here. Shop at 66north.com Keeping Iceland warm since 1926 Follow us on Instagram @66north The Reykjavík Grapevine 4 First Issue 10— 2020 You're not important enough to microchip the other. When the gyms will open again is as yet undetermined. What Are Icelanders In more optimistic coronavirus news, it looks like a vaccine will Talkin! About? be here soon. After making a deal with Pfizer, one of the producers of The topics that are !ettin! people a coronavirus vaccine, the Minister of Health announced that vacci- banned from the comments nations could begin around New Words: Andie Sophia Fontaine Photos: Adobe Stock, 'Highlander' Year’s eve. Some 170,000 doses will be made available over this period of time, which should be enough NEWS You can always tell when a which included the re-opening of to cover 85,000 people—not too particular issue in Iceland swimming pools—arguably more shabby for a country of 350,000. is really getting people talking important to Icelanders than Those being prioritised include when their Facebook profile photo opening pubs. However, gyms frontline health care workers, frames start changing. One of the remain closed, as they have been and individuals with conditions biggest topics being argued about since October. Gym owners have that make them especially vulner- right now is the proposed High- been decidedly upset about the able to the virus. But do Iceland- lands National Park. On the one matter and have even threatened ers even want to be vaccinated hand, it seems like a good idea to to sue the state over the closures. against coronavirus? Turns out: preserve one of Europe’s largest Meanwhile, public broadcast- yes, pretty much all of them, last known wilderness areas. On ing service RÚV reached out to a according to the most recent poll the other hand, the idea has been literal chemistry professor to ask on the matter, which showed some 7 COURSE met with concerted pushback from whether chlorinated water, such as 92% say they either will definitely rural municipalities and tourism that found in pools, kills the virus or probably take it. industry workers, amongst others, (it does) by way of explanation as CHRISTMAS both of whom believe the park to why one would be open but not would encroach upon small towns and small businesses alike. While the Minister for the Environ- MENU ment has tried to smooth things over, Parliamentary President and STARTERS historic firebrand Steingrímur J. Icelandic landscape Sigfússon characterised the critics Lamb tartar, pickled red onions, smoked as a “whining minority” trying to cream cheese, dill oil, vinegar snow get their way. And that’s why a good portion of your Icelandic friends Cured salmon now have Facebook profile frames Fennel cream, dill mayo, raspberries, roe which read either “I support the and rye bread Highlands National Park” or “I am the whining minority”. Deer tataki Much like the rest of the year, Pickled red onions, enoki mushrooms, crispy coronavirus continues to be a hot Jerusalem artichokes, tru!e & yuzu mayo topic, with one particular flash- point flaring up between swim- Pan-fried giant scallops ming pools and gyms. Earlier Pine tree, green pea purée, beurre noisette this month, the Ministry of Health allowed for the relaxation MAIN COURSES of some pandemic restrictions, Highlander at a protest, yesterday Duck breast Celery purée, apples, pickled fennel and cherry EDITOR!IN!CHIEF COPY EDITOR SALES DIRECTORS FOUNDERS Borgarnes, Keflavík, Ísafjörður and sauce Valur Grettisson Catharine Fulton Aðalsteinn Hilmar Steinn [email protected] Grétarsson, at key locations Jörundsson along road #1, and Grilled beef tenderloin Published by INTERN [email protected] Hörður Kristbjörnsson, all major tourist NEWS EDITOR Jón Trausti attractions and Fröken ehf.