We spend one lovely evening with icelandic poetry. This guy was born in Iceland, now he lives in Helsinky, Eiríkur Örn Norðdahl. Enjoy! :)
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Christian Bök reading the poem 'Höpöhöpö Böks' by Icelandic poet Eiríkur Örn Norðdahl.
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A poem about my personal vision of sustainability, which has been developed while living in Solheimar Ecovillage in Iceland for three months. Lyrics can be read on my blog: ecovillager.blogspot.com A previous poem can be found at www.youtube.com ecovillager.blogspot.com www.cellonline.org www.solheimar.is Songs: "Kota" & "Terrapin" by Bonobo
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A poem describing my trip to the Solheimar Ecovillage in Iceland with a program through the Center of Ecological Living and Learning and some of the things I've learned here so far. Lyrics can be read on my blog: ecovillager.blogspot.com A follow-up poem can be found here www.youtube.com ecovillager.blogspot.com www.cellonline.org www.solheimar.is
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One song (unmixed) of the latest album of Olina an icelandic poet. The video was shot with a webcam during the album recording at Bali.
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Video of the poem Bird by Alison Calder, (c) Wolf Tree, Cotteau Books, 2007, Video by Robin Gordon, metaRIOT productions, machinima, sl name Nova Dyszel, music Ragnaroek, Sequentia and Elizabeth, Edda - myths of medieval Iceland
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'Dagger' is the second in a series of collaborative pieces with Heidi James, Matthew Coleman and Vim Cortez, who composed the music. The footage of which has been shot in Iceland. (Traffic sample is by Cognito Perceptu and, for a better quality version, see here: www.vimeo.com )
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10.10.08 Journey's end - Iceland's bankrupt? Iceland Prime Minister Geir Haarde adopt a carefree attitude: "We have fantastic resources and an abundance of green energy and we will now utilize that ..." Aluminium producer Alcoa and other global playing companies are rubbing their hands. Will they be the winners of the financial collapse? But what the Icelanders would win if their unique nature is damaged by dams, smelters and pollution? Please read the book Dreamland - A Selp-Help Manual for a Frightened Nation by Andri Snaer Magnason. ********************************* This little show about LOVE, NATURE and POETRY is dedicated to all Icelanders (except for some ruthless and corrupt fat-cats and racists who only worship their own dirty skin or money). ******************************** There are some pictures from my journey to Iceland in September 2007 underlaid with the wonderful poem Ferðalok by Jónas Hallgrímsson (1807-1845). You can find an English translation of the poem on www.library.wisc.edu *
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Vilja-Tuulia Huotarinen reads at the 3rd international poetry festival in Reykjavík, Iceland.
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The lifes blood of the Earths physical form- that which was instrumental to transform the planet beneath our feet billions of years ago into what see today- still continues to flow below. On the 24th of April 2010, I was reminded, yet again, just how powerless and small we are to that of the Earth- our living and breathing home-world of life, death, and rebirth; on that day a volcano below a glacier in Iceland brought all of the UKs airplanes and people to a stand, when a huge plume of ash from the volcano decided to remind everyone, by putting on a show, that no matter how much we believe we are the architects of our own destiny- compared to the power of the Earth, we are but the fruit of a tree; we are all tied together, connected, and are all of one planet: and we are seeing the evidence of that right now, and we cant deny it.
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Poems by Jónas Hallgrímsson (1807-1845). English translation by Dick Ringler. Performed by the Skolakor Karsness under the direction of Þórunn Björnsdóttir. Accompanist Víkingur Ólafsson. Reykjavik, March 2010. 1) Iceland (Ísland). Song: trad. 2) Shoes and britches, shorts and vest ( Buxur, vesti, brók og skó) composer Skúli Halldórsson. 3) Valley Song (Dalvísa), composer Atli Heimir Sveinsson. More poems: www.library.wisc.edu
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I talk about the major sources into Old Norse myths - the Poetic Edda that was hidden throughout 400 years on Iceland before it surfaced in 1643 AD, and the Prose Edda that was written by Snorri Sturlusson in 1225 AD in an attempt to preserve the old Norse style of poetry. Other written sources are the Icelandic sagas, bardic poems and Saxo Grammaticus´s work Gesta Danorum in Latin. I discuss the various approaches to these sources and their reliability as sources into Old Norse paganism, and whether the Poetic Edda was a random collection of poems or a planned and coherent book telling one story through many poems. (For a long time, it was common to believe that the Poetic Edda was a random collection of older and newer poems or versions of poems, put together by one or more learned monks in the 12th century. Several poems are so complicated that scholars believe they present a jumble of different poems almost randomly put together. Lately, however, it has been suggested by some that the Poetic Edda -- especially the poems about the gods -- do fit together as if the collection of poems was meant as a book -- complete in itself. Through an extensive analysis of the divine poems in relation to each other, historian of literature May-Britt Berg claims that the entire collection fits together as if it was meant as one history carrying the same theme. Berg concludes that the Poetic Edda must be a work of the 13th century written by one author basing himself on imagery of the ...
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The CELL group had the wonderful opportunity for Icelandic writer Andri Snær Magnason to speak to them in the house of Nobel prize winner Halldór Kiljan Laxness. He read some poems from "Bonus Poetry". Bonus is Iceland's largest supermarket chain - it could be considered Iceland's Walmart. ecovillager.blogspot.com www.cellonline.org www.solheimar.is Song: "Fjarskanistan" by Amiina
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Intimate, romantic, acoustic and a well traveled accordion player joined us. We were very proud to be playing at this concert with these great artists. This was a very intimate concert, the show was much more poetic than usual.
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Björk - Pagan Poetry and Generous Palmstroke performed live on Japanese TV (News23) on 14 January 2002, together with interview segments. If you like this, support Björk by buying her official live and studio recordings. I don't own the copyright. This is for nonprofit, educational purposes only. Thanks to BjörkFTP for the recording.
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you can find it on Cocoon pt. 1... enjoy!
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