This old house...

Nice poem. I wish I could have used it with some of my old house photos.
Was this built with rock walls?

Thank you John, this is actually a Shakin' Steven's song... do you remember him? :o)
I've added a link to the description of the Icelandic turf houses under the photo :o)

Yes, I recognised it, Begga. It was such a shame the the way the song was actually received (as just a bit of pop "fluff") because the words mean such a lot and tell a real story...

Yes, it's strange... I just looked at this as another pop song... but when I copied the text, and saw it black on white, I was surprised how much it told...

Flott skot Begga, skýin koma smart út þarna, flott ljóð með, smart að setja svona litla mynd inn í, þetta þarf ég að læra líka, hehe

Takk Ester, alltaf gaman að læra eitthvað nýtt á Iper :o)

Flott!

Takk Hafdís :o)

great text and capture.....

Thank you so much Berny :o)

Flott að skoða myndina í fullri upplausn. Merkilegt hversu mikið er hægt að skerpa og lýsa upp grasið án þess að himininn brenni yfir. Bjartir og flottir litir þarna :o)

Reyndar gerði ég akkúrat ekkert við þessa mynd nema setja smá "punch" og svo dró ég úr saturation!! Þessi mynd kom í þessum litum og skerpu úr vélinni... veit ekki alveg hvað gerðist en veðrið var alveg magnað þarna, himininn flottur og grasið ótrúlega grænt!

Takk Oddur, alltaf gaman þegar fólk gefur sér tíma til að skoða fulla stærð :o)

Merci pour le texte et 24 heures sans nuit, je comprend l'ambiance ! !

You are welcome Janick :o)

un tres bel endroit qui semble vraiment paisible !
Bravo Pixie ;)

It was really quiet yes, only the wind in the grass and the occasional bird :o) Thank you Sylvain...

Hehe, where is the house itself?! Of course, I'm joking, but I would never think it is a house without your title, it looks just like a stack of firewood :-)))

LOL, yes I know... there are a lot of those ruins here in Iceland, overgrown with grass... but the really funny thing is that I never associated this look with a stack of firewood until you said it, probably because we don't see those here, not with our central geothermal heating :o)

Falleg mynd, góðir litir!

Takk kærlega Bragi! :o)

beautiful. Could also have been destroyed by Laki

Thank you Franz... and that's true :o) Are you into the Icelandic geography? :o)

wow..super i llllllike it :D

Thank you Teo, at least it's very colourful! The Icelandic summer has very strong colours ;o)

uu strong colors..then that's for meee...:) heh it would be nice to visit

Hope you get to visit Iceland some day, you would love it :o)

Hello Pixie, I found an article in Wikipedia (which I used for my own story on volcanoes and cooling of the climate): Let me copy a bit in here:

" The consequences of Laki's eruption for Iceland were catastrophic. An estimated 25% of the population died in the famine and fluorine poisoning after the fissure eruptions ceased. Around 80% of sheep, 50% of cattle and 50% of horses died because of dental and skeletal fluorosis from the 8 million tons of fluorine that were released.

Outside Iceland

Gilbert White recorded his perceptions of the event at Selborne:

“The summer of the year 1783 was an amazing and portentous one, and full of horrible phaenomena; for besides the alarming meteors and tremendous thunder-storms that affrighted and distressed the different counties of this kingdom, the peculiar haze, or smokey fog, that prevailed for many weeks in this island, and in every part of Europe, and even beyond its limits, was a most extraordinary appearance, unlike anything known within the memory of man. By my journal I find that I had noticed this strange occurrence from June 23 to July 20 inclusive, during which period the wind varied to every quarter without making any alteration in the air. The sun, at noon, looked as blank as a clouded moon, and shed a rust- coloured ferruginous light on the ground, and floors of rooms; but was particularly lurid and blood-coloured at rising and setting. All the time the heat was so intense that butchers' meat could hardly be eaten on the day after it was killed; and the flies swarmed so in the lanes and hedges that they rendered the horses half frantic, and riding irksome. The country people began to look with a superstitious awe, at the red, louring aspect of the sun.”

Benjamin Franklin recorded his observations in a 1784 lecture:
“During several of the summer months of the year 1783, when the effect of the sun's rays to heat the earth in these northern regions should have been greater, there existed a constant fog over all Europe, and a great part of North America. This fog was of a permanent nature; it was dry, and the rays of the sun seemed to have little effect towards dissipating it, as they easily do a moist fog, arising from water. They were indeed rendered so faint in passing through it, that when collected in the focus of a burning glass they would scarce kindle brown paper. Of course, their summer effect in heating the Earth was exceedingly diminished. Hence the surface was early frozen. Hence the first snows remained on it unmelted, and received continual additions. Hence the air was more chilled, and the winds more severely cold. Hence perhaps the winter of 1783-4 was more severe than any that had happened for many years.”

Not to be repeated soon, I hope... Cheers Franz

Oh yes, it was a terrible catastrophe... and it is believed it had a part in the outbreak of the French revolution.

Here in Iceland this was called "Móðuharðindin" which literally translated means "Fog Hardship" because of the poisonous gas that resembled fog. In their despair, those who governed even discussed moving all Icelanders to Denmark and settling them there... luckily for us they abandoned that idea :o)

...and sometimes it takes guts to stay on. Iceland was lucky I guess, old Greenland wasn't . At least you have got the hot springs, when the weather gets too cold! Do you feel any global warming effects?

No not here, not that I've noticed :o)
Global warming... isn't it just a part of nature's own cycles?