Word: reykjavik
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...Miles of Tents." There are four small, scrupulously clean hotels in Reykjavik, Icelandic capital. Knowing that Iceland would have to accommodate some thou sands of visitors Icelanders erected what U. S. correspondents described expansively last week as "miles and miles of tents" (5,000) on the great "Parliamentary Plain" or Thingvellir, where the "All Speaking" or Althing assembled 1,000 years ago near the "Parliamentary Plain Lake" of Thingvallavatn within sight of a long oval fragment of volcanic lava, the "Mount of Law" or Logberg. English correspondents, meticulous, described the excellent sanitary arrangements in the tents: "Water has been laid...
...nsson, boss politician, Minister of Justice and Ecclesiastics, is a lunatic, suggested that if his skill and that of his associates is not sufficient to diagnose Herra Jónsson as mad, then by all means let the world's foremost psychiatric authorities be summoned to Reykjavik...
...Social Conditions in his country the Icelandic Publicist Halldor Kiljan Laxness has written: "Organized religion fares badly in Iceland. Ministers of religion have no prestige and the churches as a rule are empty on Sunday. . . . The Catholics have built a gorgeous cathedral at Reykjavik, though there are only about 150 Catholics in the town...
...dealt harshly with the Bank of Iceland. Ordered was a searching investigation which Icelandic economists are certain will prove that the Bank is bankrupt. In this case, by decree of the angry Althing, it will be liquidated and its business probably transferred to the prosperous Farm Bank of Reykjavik...
...Reykjavik there are no street cars, but many a Buick taxicab. Constantly soaring back and forth across the country ?a little smaller than Bulgaria or Kentucky?are two sturdy planes of the German Lufthansa. Two summers ago a German tourist brought several bags of vegetable seed, with the result that many nourishing plants, hitherto unknown in Iceland, sprouted and flourished last summer. But the Icelanders were not particularly pleased. They obey by instinct Explorer Stefansson's rule: A people react with pleasure to a new food in proportion as they have been accustomed to a varied diet. Accustomed...