MPEG Movies of Ísland

(Iceland)

	Seljalandsfoss, southern Island (Iceland), October 1986. MPEG-1 Movies, 3 megabits per second encoding. Websize (1.9 Megabytes) Fullsize (6.5 Megabytes)
	Skogafoss, southern Island (Iceland), October 1986 MPEG-1 Movies, 3 megabits per second encoding. Websize (2.2 Megabytes) Fullsize (12 Megabytes)

1986 Trip to Gulfoss -- warning, big file! 454 megabytes. MPG1. This is an adventurous winter trek to Gulfoss with an unwise shortcut to Thingvellir on the way back. (right click on the link and 'save target as' or something like that, save it to your disk THEN watch it).

Some definitions:

Reyk

Smoke or steam

vík (veek)

harbor or inlet

nes

Peninsula

Þing (Thing)

The collection of representatives meeting to govern (Parliament)

vel

A valley or dale.

examples:

• Reykjavík means a "harbor with or full of steam or smoke" which describes the many natural hot springs in the area.
• Reykjanes means "steamy peninsula".
• Þingvellir means "Parliament Valley"

Links

• http://www.centrum.is DAILY NEWS FROM ICELAND
• http://www.diafade.co.uk/john/torfa.html Iceland: Torfajökull