Posts under ‘Icelandic Food’

Last Friday was bóndadagur (Husband’s day) in Iceland. Girlfriends and wives across the country were doing something special for their loved ones. This day also marks the beginning of Þorrablót where a whole range of traditional foods are eaten. The smell of rotten shark and rams’ testicles are in the air as people celebrate the [...]

We started the day being lazy and eating pancakes. As you may know my car had stopped working but we heard that it could start by giving it a jump start. Sam, Joe and I tried to jump start the car by pushing it. However, the roads in Gunnarsholt had become thick ice, like before, [...]

Yesterday we were warned that for lunch today would be ‘sheeps balls’. We werent told why but we were told we had to try it! This morning I found out, from Jónella, that everyone is celebrating Þorrablót. It is an ancient Viking midwinter tradition of feasting on traditional foods like shark, dried fish and sheephead. [...]

FINALLY I am feeling better *does a dance*. Sam on  the other hand…may have caught it  We planned to go to Selfoss for food..but Sam wasnt feeling well. We went for a tiny drive and stopped at a petrol station to get a hotdog. [I was looking at things to do, for when my parents come, and read a [...]