Iceland - Incredible Place to Travel

Two of the things I love are travel and literature. The people at Good.Is have a great article about Iceland.

EVERY MORNING AT 8 A.M., HALLDÓR LAXNESS, a 20th-century Icelandic writer, ventured into the woods around his home in the valley of Mosfellsdalur, 20 kilometers away from the capital, Reykjavík.

For six hours at a time, the Nordic nation’s only Nobel laureate would stay immersed in the ensemble of snow-clad mountains interspersed with tiny waterfalls and the white noise of winds in trees. After his time in nature, he would return home inspired.

He penned over 60 works in seven decades: novels, poetry, plays, short stories, essays, and memoirs, which have been translated into 43 languages.

“Iceland’s natural beauty was a creative muse for Laxness, his inexhaustible source of artistic inspiration,” says Margrét Marteinsdóttir, who manages Gljúfrasteinn, which was Laxness’ home for over half a century and is now a government-operated museum.

“In fact, he would get so lost in the landscapes that his wife would keep a golden gong in their home,” she says. “If he didn’t return until 2:30 p.m., she would go to the backyard and keep hitting the metal disc with a mallet until he was back. If she didn’t do that, he wouldn’t return until evening, not realizing he had missed lunch.”

It is said that there are more statutes of writers in Iceland than there are of politicians.
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