All About Snæfellsjökull Volcano - The Most Mystical Place in Iceland
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- Опубліковано 23 сер 2024
- Here is all you need to know about Iceland's most mysterious volcano, endless source of tales, novels, movies and myths, but why? What is it about the Snæfellsjökull volcano that gets so strongly to people who haven’t even seen it? So let's join me as we explore the Snæfellsnes Peninsula and the volcanic systems around.
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With Greetings from Iceland
Gylfi
Thanks again. Beautiful footage great colours. Like your humor.👽👍
Thanks 👍
With Iceland being a collection of volcanos, Icelanders have little choice other than to live near volcanos. 🤔
That was beautiful! 🤗
Thank you :)
Snæfellsjökull was the only thing I recall reading about Iceland growing up. Arriving at Naval Air Station Keflavik, one of the first things someone pointed out to me across the bay was this gigantic volcano in the distance. Glad I got to explore the area several times.
PS - as I recall we took a ferry across the fiord since the undersea tunnel was still just a proposed project in the 1970s.
PS2 - appreciate your videos on all these fantastic Icelandic locations!
Yes you took the Akraborg ferry, I sailed until we got the tunnels, and wow how much the did for us :) and thanks for visiting, as always :)
Thank you for the beautiful views. It's very informative and entertaining. I love your dry sense of humor.
Thank you very much :) and greetings from Iceland
I really enjoyed another one of your many stories, backed up by beautiful drone coverage, and good information. But most of all, I truly love and appreciate your sense of humour! Good show all around. Thank you, Gylfi. All the best to you for 2023.
I agree. He caught me off guard with the sheep bleating “yes,” and I discovered you really can’t laugh and choke at the same time very well. 😂😂😂
Thanks a lot, gotta do this my way as usual :) those volcano stories were just asking for it :)
You had me laughing out loud for several minutes with your "good place for a mental hospital" 😂🤣
I had fun making this one :) and welcome
What a silly question. There's only so far Icelanders can go to 'escape' volcanoes ... A friend of mine--may he rest in peace--was one of those 500 people! He was bitterly disappointed about being stood up by the aliens, but loved Iceland and its people nevertheless. Being Finnish himself, he felt right at home.🤣😂
I think most Icelanders remember the Alien visit 😂 and I actually kept the news clip on the side for 2 years to cover it separately, but decided to have some fun with this video since it's not erupted there for a long time, and I think it fitted well there :)
Very good mystical video, well done Gylfi 😄
Thank you 😁
Thank you for this beautiful video. Even at the end of 2022 I enjoyed watching it. Once again: best wishes for the new year.
Happy new year!
I remember the awe and sheer amazement I experienced while driving around this area a few years ago - it's very easy to see why it inspires so many! I didn't realize you could hike to the top of Eldborg - now I really want to! It's such a grand marvel, standing tall on the lava flow with Snæfellsjökull and the mountains behind it ❤
The entire Peninsula is sheer amazement - from beautiful, pristine beaches, captivating cliffs, contrasting colors and landscapes... the whole area is just amazing!
Premium content, as always! Your drone work is perfection, Gylfi! Thank you for these videos - they sure do take me back to amazing and beautiful Iceland!
Maaaaaa great video!! 🤙🏽
Thanks and welcome
Mystery. Talking Sheep. SciFi. Aliens. Volcanoes. Idiots. Truly something for everyone!😂
Yes it's a volcano that has it all :)
I wish you a happy new year, stay safe.
A beautiful landscape. Very suited for fantasy movies.
There were peat houses in The Netherlands. They were build by the poor laborers who worked in the high moor regions where they digged for peat that was used for heating houses. When coal, oil and gas replaced peat that industry stopped in the previous century. I grew up in such a region. It already was a great nature reserve by then.
Thanks for sharing, when I was looking for images of peat houses to use in older video I found this out about the Netherlands, and was kind go glad that we didn't suffer alone in this matter :)and the idea was imported, but they kept the nation however alive :)
I enjoyed watching the post because of the beautiful shots and humorous tone. Made my day!
Thanks and greetings from Iceland :)
haha brilliant video as ever ( I especially liked the building a mental institution. laughed hard) keep up the great work your video's and pictures are amazing
Thanks and welcome :)
Fantastic test footage. I can't wait for what have instore for us. Iceland ❤
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"What a great place for a mental institution... we need more of them."
👍 we sure do :)
Interresting, and beautiful photos!
Thanks a lot and a Happy New Year from Iceland
I'm neapolitan, and the case of the "you live under a volcano (in my case, I'm between two volcanoes)m you can't go anywhere else?!
I totally understand your perspective, and even if the activity is major, Iceland can use that energy produced by Earth in a really effective and practical way, differently to us.
Love love Love it! ❤Almost every morning, with my breakfast and coffee, I’m watching a few of your ”older” - before the november 2023 eruption - videos. I enjoy them Very Much! So much, that I now must Really Hurry up, and be off to work ! 😅 So worth it!
What a beautiful area- one to add to my bucket list
Go for it!
Wonderful video! I really enjoyed the stories behind this stunning volcano. What an amazing setting to base a story whether it is geographical, fantasy or history. Thank you for bringing us here! Also looking forward to your 2023 posts! Happy New Year to you!
Thank you so much!
Sending you my sincerest wishes for peace in the new year. Rosemary
Peace Rosemary and a Happy New year from Iceland
I remember going into an old turf church and singing in Icelandic. Dread to think what we sounded like!!
Well, at least you gave it a go, that's something :)
Absolutely beautiful land. ❤️❤️
Thank you very much :)
Delightful.
Thanks a lot and a Happy New Year from Iceland
Thank you for this very informative and entertaining video. I love your sense of humour while educating us on serious topics; talking to sheep, and waiting for aliens! Love it.
Thanks a lot and a Happy New Year from Iceland
I sort of know what you mean about when people ask you why you live near a volcano, I get the same thing about tornadoes here in Oklahoma. 😄
Tornadeos look scary, luck us to be free of them, and greetings from Iceland :)
@@JustIcelandic I was born in California but grew up in the US Southeast. I used to prefer tornadoes because you generally have some sort of warning, which is usually not the case with an earthquake. However, after spending most of my adult life (so far, many decades yet to go, lord willing) in the Seattle area, I’ve realized that earthquakes are, for the most part, far less impactful. If you take precautions, you’re going to be far better off than with a tornado. And since there are far more tornadoes impacting individual communities on a regular basis than earthquakes, I think I’ll just stay here for now. (Got my eye on a PhD in Norway for later.)
Gorgeous photography! I can almost smell the vegetation. Snaefellsjokull, Eyjafjallajökull and Oraefajokull are my favourite volcanoes in Iceland.
Thanks you and always welcome :)
So good and you're very funny. Thank you from state of Vermont US
Thanks for watching! and greetings to Vermont :)
It sounds just perfect. 🇨🇦
Thanks a lot and a Happy New Year from Iceland
I couldn’t help but laugh when you mentioned it was a good place to establish an institution for the insane.
Remoteness tends to do that to populations.
Have a peaceful and prosperous 2023!
Thanks, you too :)
Yessss thanks for the vid man!!! Have been waiting for this one. I saw it in may and found it the most mesmerizing place!! What do you think?
Glad you enjoyed it! This place cannot be explained fully, although mesmerizing is a good word for it, but why I can't say, just enjoy to be there whenever I have time to drive by :)
I really enjoy your geology videos, but, man, you really made me laugh out loud with this one!!!!!!!!!! Thanks for your sense of humour!
Glad you enjoyed it :) It's the best of times for me when I can add a "little something" to my stories :)
I would love to build a nice underground house into the walls of Eldborg crater! Have a nice patio deck carved into the inner walls for the warmer months, lots of snug living spaces inside, and a garage cavern that opens to the outside…. It could be my very own Fortress of Solitude. 😊
That would be cool! or even hot :)
Thank you this wonderful and interesting video. You have really brought such amazing views of your home to light, what a beautiful country.
Thank you so very much :) and greetings from Iceland
You are very funny I love your accent and I love your country. Iceland is very very beautyful and I like the informations that you give us on all the areas that you visit and share with us. I have looked at Geldingadalir every day before it began erupting and during and even now from time to time I go and have a look to see how it is doing and I have enjoyed every moment of the magnificience of it all and must not forget the other one too but it did not last very long . Tank you so much for it all
Thank you! 😃
Mesmerizing piece. Thank you for this one. One question: are you being cheeky/joking when you saw there are big traffic jams in the capital? Seriously, try Los Angeles, Delhi, Paris, Rome, Tokyo, Colombo, Hanoi... I'm looking forward to Icelandic traffic jams when we are there in June 2023! And to driving to see Snaefellsjokull up close! Merci and happiest of new years to you and yours. Linda in France
He has a dry sense of humor. There in Iceland, if you see another car, it's a traffic jam - that's my kind of city.
I was serious about the traffic :) but we might have less tolerance for such, I cant handle it at all :) and Happy New Year to you too
@@JustIcelandic Yes, I hate the traffic in southern California and want to live in northern eastern California.
Gylfi, I feel the power from here! My chakras are spinning like pinwheels in a gale force wind.
It was good to see more snow plow video, no matter how short. Maybe that was as far as the got that day? Do not ask for whom the lunch whistle blows; it blows for thee.
As always, enjoying your videos is the peak of my day here at the hospital. I think it's time for my medicine, again.
That night in November, 1993. They were not in Iceland because they were with me, again.
My next snow removal video will be 60 minutes minimum, I'm almost there :) think I might need 10-15 minutes more, might go chasing snow removal tools tomorrow. And I wish you good recovery!
Thank you for this lovely video again. Best wishes for the new year from the Netherlands. Looking forward to more from wonderful Iceland.
Thanks a lot and a Happy New Year from Iceland
Well, well now we know where the aliens from Kelly Kentucky went too, lol… They left here in mid 50s after a hard battle with a few Kentuckians, lol… Just awesome scenery there… Thank you for your video…
Welcome :)
Another great video Gylfi. Greetings from the UK. I hope the roads are clear enough next week, to visit many of the places you so wonderfully describe. Happy New Year. 👽 🛸
Thanks and greetings from Iceland :)
O man... 🤣🤣🤣.. Gylfi, you did it again ... 😝🤣😁...I think I broke something this time.
Best Regards from USA and Happy New Year !
😁 thanks and a Happy New year from Iceland :)
The aliens had their time pieces set to eastern intergalactic time so we’re 10 years earlier 😂
Aha, now I understand 😂
3:42 thats the first time ive ever seen a 3km lucrehulk battleship go in reverse XD
Welcome :)
At first, I was thinking, look how stark and uninhabited that landscape is...oh, wait, there are sheep. Then, ahahahha - at 3:03 - one of the sheep philosophizes. 🤣 My goodness, you got some beautiful shots of the area!
Thanks a lot, I love this place :)
Didn't know you switched your car to an UFO ... ;-)
Welcome :)
My wife and I had a lovely visit to Snaefellsjökull in 2019. Thank you for this amusing and informative video. We dream of returning some day in the future to your magical and interesting island home. These videos are really well done! You have fans in Vermont, USA.
Wonderful! welcome back to Iceland anytime, and greetings to Vermont :)
@@JustIcelandic Yes! We want to return... and we will! Thank you for keeping us in touch with your wonderful country.
Good one!
That mineral water tastes like rust.
But it's good.
Well, I'm more for beer :)
@@JustIcelandic You need to change your support suggestion. Form, buy me a coffee, to buy me a coffee or a beer, it would work as well.
I did like a 3 day stay at Ólafsvík back in the summer of 2018. We had a strong Northern wind blowing cold humid air and overcast conditions toward the peninsula. We drove around the volcano and had clear skies and could walk around wearing only T shirt and shorts. I found it quite mesmerizing watching the clouds evaporate while they attempted to get across the ridge that forms the 'backbone' of the peninsula.
What a stunning area, I would never have thought such beauty in this remote corner. I would guess it links the people with the birth of Iceland, and therefore it likely has a spiritual presence, and perhaps the book is not far from the truth if all the ice and snow were gone, I bet you could walk within one volcano and travel to all regions of Iceland through the old magma tubes.
Might just be and I'm really curious about the plumbing under Iceland :)
Another superb, enjoyable presentation, combined with humour and even some comedy....I laughed aloud at the “human sheep dog” rounding up sheep....quite different from the Good Shepherd,Jesus Christ, who calls His own “sheep” by name, and leads them. Jesus said “I am the Good Shepherd: the Good Shepherd gives His life for the sheep.” There are aliens, the Bible calls them “fallen angels” or “demons”. Led by fallen Lucifer, or Satan. Seems they “landed” a long time ago in the history of man according to the Bible. Christ said He saw Satan fall from heaven as lightning in Luke chapter 10. The evidence of his evil presence is seen in our world, along with his evil cohorts. Ok, that being said, I always learn something from your work and look with anticipation to it in the New Year. May the Lord bless you and yours in the coming year.Thanks!
Always most welcome :) and thank you
Maybe the Aliens have used some stealth technology and just left a while later. 🤔
Well, some noticed some lights by the time of arrival, according to news later on :)
Just a minute. There's a mountain called Snaefell on the Isle of Man in the Irish sea between England and Ireland.
Apparently it translates as Snow Mountain.
Linguistic connection?
It's snowy mountain yes, and we have two of them at least with that name :) linguistic connection, cant say, however it's been discovered from genetics that we are way more Irish the previously believed, and Celtic is a way larger part of Icelandic as well, according to a new study I noticed recently.
all Best for the NEW YEAR 2023...
HEALTH and PACE....
How it is now on Iceland.?
here in Romania, 20 km north of Bucharest, we have in the last 3 weeks temperatures between ....
in 09.01.2023 in night -2 til + 5 gr
in day + 5 til 18 gr
nothing is normal...
I remember:
in 2007 was - 10 gr and 50 cm snow
in 2009 was - 8 gr and 40 cm snow
last year 2021/22 was - 3 gr and 2 cm snow
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we open the Frost Box and Frig to give cold to the nature offside...
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Greets from Bucharest
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It's a cold winter now, extremely cold, -20c on the highlands today but I need to cover this in a separate video soon, and greetings to Bucharest :)
A happy new year to Icelanders from Denmark ❤🖖
Thanks a lot and a Happy New Year from Iceland
A linguistics question…I notice that you pronounce Snæfellsnes with the typical Icelandic “ll” pronunciation, but I didn’t notice that from other speakers when I was there. Is that a dialectical thing or did I just not hear it correctly the first time?
Must be because you didn't get it right the first time :)
While the aliens are there, they can herd the sheep, make themselves useful, for a change.
Drones are better for that :)
I saw today, the lava from active volcanoes happening today are diverted using pit digging machines. I thought Pompei wouldn't have been destroyed if they had known this technology
I think the aliens made a wise decision not to appear in front of so many fools. They only have themselves to blame for it.
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Thanks a lot and a Happy New Year from Iceland
@@JustIcelandic You too. I've drove its mountain road.. its so gorgeous and peaceful there. Looking over the ocean, i was sitting on some moss in the sun. After had dinner at Hellnar with view on the top that was clearly visible.. that doesn't happen too much. Speaking about it makes me homesick again.
Is it intresting how many cultures have built their civilizations next to or on volcanoes. Iceland, japan, new Zealand, the great plains and yellowstone, mexico, kayseri in turkey, italy. Natural resources, fertile lands, and low valleys its understandable to see how people once viewed them as gifts and godlike with the impact they have had
Helllo, sorry it's unrelated, but do you still have the 1990 Icelandic National Final?
Do you mean Eurovision?
@@JustIcelandic "Söngvakeppni Sjónvarpsstöðva 1990" the Icelandic National Final for Eurovision 1990
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Can you hike on this volcano crater?
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GLORY TO GOD.
AMEN.
GET READY REPENT AMEN IN JESUS CHRIST NAME AMEN REPENT GET READY REPENT AMEN 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 GRACE ❤️
Welcome
I've just seen a UFO in one of your clips? Did you notice it? 🤔
CGI UFO 😀
What minerals are prevellant on the island, is there volvanic gold?
Only gold, not necessarily in the younger parts of Iceland, gold findings here and there, or so I see in the media as there has been some gold prospecting the last yrs here. It's actually a material for a video when I know more :)
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The aliens took one look at the people waiting for them and immediatly ran away because Humans are simply too wierd and screwed up to warrant meeting them.🤣🤣🤣🤣
👍 welcome
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Always welcome 😄
Nice name to pronouce!
May need a couple of beers for some :)
No worries, we have idiots here in the Netherlands too! ;-)
😃 I had no idea about that
We in the UK have more than our share of " eccentrics " check out UA-cam video Can You Speak Venusian? Posted by kevgater. Excerpt of guy speaking Venusian on One Pair Of Eyes with Patrick Moore from 1969. Probably the same guy who predicted your Alien visit.
Thanks for sharing :)