Friday, 1 August 2014

Þjóðhátíð 2014

Þjóðhátíð 2014



All the exciting and sordid details in small posts about Þjóðhátíð 2014 will follow.  Lonely Planet guide describes it, quote, It involves music, dancing, fireworks, a big bonfire, gallons of alcohol, and, as the night progresses, lots of drunken sex (it's something of a teen rite of passage), with upwards of 15,000 people attending...

This year, 20,000 people are expected, on a town with not even 4000.  Many locals flee.  I don't recognize the line-up, and not much fusst about it.

I'm extra excited about the bonfire.  Supposedly the largest in Scandinavia.  Do they ever love their bonfire.  And the next evening the fireworks.  And always lots of drunken sex.

http://www.dalurinn.is/skrar/image/dagskra/dagskra2014.jpg
I think I owe it to you, some kind of pronunciation.  THEO thou teeth is close enough.  Pronounce it slowly, it needn't be some quickly said word.  A lot of Icelanders can't say it either (so I'm told).

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