The Eldvörp Craters in Iceland - Origin and History

[@caetlynrose4]

You are in fine form in this video. I was laughing through most of it. Thank you.

[@JustIcelandic]

Glad you enjoyed🤗

[@TheGrumpyExplorer]

I visited these craters a few years ago when there was a possibility of them being destroyed to extract energy. It was a truly amazing place

[@JustIcelandic]

Yes I need to spend some time there next summer, so worth it....

[@annabee1984]

You're sense of humour is also what makes your channel so special! 😊

[@JustIcelandic]

Oh thank you! Like when I was in sales, it' no fun unless you get to be your self all the way :)

[@annabee1984]

@@JustIcelandic never a truer word spoken 😀

[@Bugsey35]

As a professional drone pilot, I find flying the thermal missions right before dawn to be the most productive. I don't know what it takes to be night flight certified in Iceland, but it might be worth looking into. I'm sorry to hear that after all that time under the Danish Crown that your bakers never learned to make a decent pastry.

[@JustIcelandic]

The Queen of Denmark should give us a Danish bakery, they are really good :) and they owe to us

[@rdklkje13]

@@JustIcelandicNext time you’re in Reykjavik you might wanna try Braud & Co. They’re kinda like Lagkagehuset but funky and quite possibly better.

[@stephanieparker1250]

That mug is great 😅❤ I love hearing the names of the places and that you include history of the areas. 🎉

[@johnharling5246]

Amazing that you made a video on this features considering the present alarming situation.

[@HeatherDux]

So very measured and informing.

[@JustIcelandic]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@austin12ascot]

Wonderful subtle humour.

[@JustIcelandic]

Thank you :)

[@stephanieparker1250]

The info about the bread is wonderful, especially the sheep enjoying it hehe 🤭🥰

[@JustIcelandic]

😁

[@ArjanAlmekinders]

Great background story! I have been to the craters many times and will surely come back there on my next visit to Iceland. Never knew there could be so much history around the Eldvorp craters. Thanks.

[@mbvoelker8448]

Loved this. I always enjoy the videos that have more of a documentary feel than just visuals and music. You're a good storyteller and can make something interesting out of even challenging material.

[@JustIcelandic]

😄 thanks a ton and as always, very welcome

[@nbk9372]

Dually noted; ...must have plenty supply of bread, ......for toll workers. TY Gylfi, always bring a smile, and belly full of laughs.

[@dasmaurerle4347]

Thank you for sharing. I wish i was able to afford actually visiting Iceland. But since I'm not, i enjoy your videos. It makes me visit the greatest country on earth in my mind. Greetings from 🇩🇪😘

[@JustIcelandic]

Thank you, I will make sure you will have a good time here on my channel and bring you as close as possible to Iceland :)

[@charlesward8196]

Love the videos from EYES-land! I stopped the video in the middle to read the volcano cafe article. Thanks for linking it. Good luck with documenting the next outburst, and stay safe.

[@florentsantoni7258]

Thank you so much for your work !

[@rebeccashannon3080]

Truly fascinating report on these craters, covering so many angles that I wanted to hear and see it more than once....Many questions were brought up from your “diggings” that make all of us wish to find out more! So I suppose all of us will just need to “stay tuned “....🧐👀...Thanks!

[@JustIcelandic]

Always welcome😊

[@Meggligee]

Thanks for all your Interesting and educational videos! We were supposed to visit Iceland in 2020 then COVID happened. Still trying for the next couple of years. All the best!

[@JustIcelandic]

Good luck getting here and always welcome to iceland :)

[@CARODSLINK]

Ty

[@JustIcelandic]

Welcome

[@annfoster6035]

I always love to watch and enjoy listening to your historical information of the beautiful Iceland. I hope to visit one day soon.

[@JustIcelandic]

Welcome to Iceland :) and thanks for stopping by on the channel :)

[@loladavinci1243]

As we are well aware, a variety of poisonous gases are an intrinsic part of volcanic systems. It’s fascinating that the Icelandic people nevertheless found a way to utilize that heat and steam to bake bread and thus sustain themselves, sans the long-term consequences of those same gases being baked into the food.

[@JustIcelandic]

Bread making is actually rather widespread tradition and I would like to do a video about it when I find a "suitable outdoor bakery" in use today :)

[@skeeterinnewjersey5256]

Enjoyed the information. Just waiting nervously for updates on magma movement.

[@JustIcelandic]

Welcome

[@darrellroberts1715]

Absolutely love this channel, and particularly enjoy the humour and sarcasm surrounding what is edible, especially the bread. Thank you.

[@JustIcelandic]

😊 thanks a ton

[@zombiasnow15]

I am in love with Iceland! I have been dreaming of moving there for a couple of decades. Alas, I don’t have the means to get there or live there🙁😢

[@ThorirPP]

fun fact about the great awk, its latin name is Penguinus Impennis, which might sound familiar, as it sounds very much like penguin. In fact, the word penguin was the old word for the great awk used by Europeans, so when they went south and found very similar birds, they called them penguins too this is all to say: penguins are actually technically false penguins, but since true penguins all died out they currently have a monopoly of the name, so nobody bothers to add the "false" part

[@JustIcelandic]

Thanks a lot for sharing, they do actually deserve a video of it's own for the channel, perhaps one day :) and always welcome

[@davidbutton3500]

Sadly, Newfoundland also played a role in the demise of the Great Auk. We too ate them with potatoes.

[@brianyoung9014]

Thanks for the interesting information and scenery.

[@JustIcelandic]

Welcome

[@tolipydob]

Thanks again Gylfi!

[@JustIcelandic]

Welcome :)

[@bartjes2509]

Thanks for sharing Gylfi, These craters were on my list when we were near Blue Lagoon in 2021. But since I stayed up all night on a hill overlooking the Fagradalsfjall eruption we chose an easier visit to Reyjanesviti and have an early bedtime...

[@zasa14]

I got my lava field mug yesterday! Adding alcohol definately helps 😂

[@JustIcelandic]

SKÁL for the Sundahnkúkagígaröð 😂

[@roberthuxoll8500]

Thanks for all your interesting and helpful work!

[@JustIcelandic]

Thanks a ton for your support :) highly appreciated and needed, with greetings from Iceland, Gylfi

[@williampowell2078]

I hope you have had the opportunity to engage in dialogue with Carl Rehnberg from VolcanoCafe. He is quite personable and knowledgeable about volcanology. I have had many geologic discussions with him.

[@JustIcelandic]

He writes perhaps the most entertaining articles about geology out there, easy to understand and often shares amazing views on things, I would like to interview him, have to to analyse my footage with his knowledge

[@jeroldcrawford3431]

Would you consider showing Reykjavik on your maps of the volcanically active peninsula for some perspective when showing potential eruptions? What contaminant causes the blue color of the water?

[@JustIcelandic]

The color is a result of the way that silica reflects sunlight, and yes, my most used map includes Reykjavik, but I have been focusing so much at Grindvík lately, and have lots of new subscribers so I will remember this in my next update :)

[@skeeterinnewjersey5256]

Greetings back to you. You have become such a big part of my morning routine that I can't imagine not viewing your work, like I used to do reading the morning newspaper!

[@JustIcelandic]

Thanks a ton 😎🇮🇸 will do my best

[@jenniferlevine5406]

Very informative and entertaining - as usual!

[@JustIcelandic]

😄 welcome

[@erinmcdonald7781]

This was a delightful and enlightening video. I had no idea there was so much history around those craters and caves. That's one of those hidden gems that the tourism bureau is overlooking. Also, the history of the great auk, with ancient illustration.... Perhaps, Iceland can get some of the museum exhibit bones, etc, from the British to extract DNA and bring the poor birds back. I think that's something everyone would like. On a different note, if Iceland has a film festival you should enter something. Your work is next level. 💜🌍🐏✌️😎🍀

[@JustIcelandic]

The last stuffed great auk was purchased from an auction some decades ago after a fundraiser, and given to the Icelandic Museum of Natural History where it is still today :) and thanks for visiting as always :)

[@christhompson4270]

No there should not be any messing with the crater system. If your company there is making more than enough electricity for the consumers, then they need to stop being greedy and think about what it would do to Iceland and it’s history if it went ahead. My thoughts only. Thank you once again for your brilliant work, history and thoughts about the dykes across the magma area’s it sounds spot on, please take care and stay safe and well, 👍🙏❤️

[@GregG-trytobenicetomice]

Interesting that this video has eluded my attention for over a year... since May 26, 2023! Makes me wonder what else has eluded me for so long. I'll be back, even if it's only to re-watch... and re-listen to your narrative. I've left you a 👍and started leaving the same 👍on some comments from others😊 Too bad there's not a simple way to just give it to everyone right now, but 👍should suffice for the time-being. From NV (USA).

[@craigmccann1028]

Good one!

[@JustIcelandic]

Welcome :)

[@rogerdudra178]

Greetings from the BIG SKY. The snow is gone for many weeks now.

[@JustIcelandic]

😁✌

[@jangoosen5407]

Very interesting and an amusing perspective. Gyfli - have you considered a side job in standup comedy? 😊

[@JustIcelandic]

😊 yes

[@kathywolf4558]

All very interesting...especially about the birds. Is the bread that bad?? LOL!

[@JustIcelandic]

It's mainly the selection thats driving me crazy, same old year after yer and then I go to Europe and get a cultural shot every time I pass a bakery and it's just so depressing

[@Ann-lt5vm]

Love the auk humour.

[@JustIcelandic]

😊

[@williamlloyd3769]

Wish we had drones and IR devices in 1979-80 when traveling around the Icelandic countryside. Oh well, enjoyed visiting hot springs and geysers.

[@JustIcelandic]

Yes those are mighty clever and fun little gadgets :)

[@debbiefoster3447]

Oh, I’ve had Icelandic baking and it’s really good!😋

[@JustIcelandic]

It worked for me until i started to travel :)

[@MikeGreenwood51]

@@JustIcelandic Never go to France and taste their French Sticks as they are highly addictibe for bread fans and can become an invasive speicies. Soft nutriouse delicate crusts with tasty inner dough cooked perfectly. You need to condition your self first to Icelandic bread as bad as it is before falling under the spell for French Bread. In England for long periods we were at war with france and then suddenly peace and a few importers brought over some French bread. Now most every shop resturant and super market stocks french Bread. Every day the Sandwich selling shops have queues from all over the world to buy Le Sandwich. More French sticks are consummed than some would believe. Far more are sold to tourists than an English Bread Sandwich. But of course our local English shops make and bake them but to the French Style. Talk about an invasive species. It is 20:38PM on Tueday and I am writing to an Icelandic person about French Stick bread. Taste Fresh French baguettes and your hard rock Icelandic bread Tradition may become history remembered only in storys or old videos. Of course you can ask a sheep what he thinks of Icelandic bread and you know for sure he/she will tell you 'Bah'. They all say the same when asked. 'Bah!' But the truth is I never tasted icelandic bread myself. So have no idea what it tastes like. But whilst it may be not up to prize winning French or German Bread it can all depend on what a person does with it or puts on it. Some breads are better with hot soup. Not all are ideally suited to stand alone pleasures such as French bread. Others are best served thin. Some are exceptionally good served think and toasted with thick cut marmalade and hot tea. And way. Greetings from england and this Bread Fan.

[@chriskelvin248]

I think the problem with volcanology is that while the tools available to the experts are vastly superior to the layperson, they are still disconcertingly far from being able to function as a solid long-range (time-wise) prognosticator. Not enough money, not enough wisdom (a fault of our entire species currently). Frankly, I don't think that if you had a stealthy drone in every top-level meeting, that much more insight could be inferred. Maybe. But I doubt it. And I continue to watch and support your work!

[@JustIcelandic]

Thanks a ton ✌ and always welcome

[@General_Confusion]

Does the drone provide a heat scale for the different colours it picks up?

[@JustIcelandic]

Yes but i'm having problems to make the numbers appear in the recording, working on a solution

[@michaelripley4528]

Who is the dude walking? He looks cool😁

[@JustIcelandic]

The driver, old friend of mine

[@michaelripley4528]

@@JustIcelandic Love the video, Think altitude is important to see the patterns, the video show this in some image….. Hope you find some new variations in the landscape temperatures, so you Can help predict some quakes and eruptions… How goes with askja ?? Still to dangerous for drone footage?? 🤷🏼‍♂️😁

[@tokarukora7272]

I have a question: Sometimes streets and stones in the sunshine look hot on the video. How much is the difference between rocks in the shadow and rocks in the sun on the videos? Sometimes most of the heat map looks like it was just "normal" temperature differences. Is there are trick how to decide if we are seeing sun heat or vulcanic heat? Or is it just experience and feeling, like "here is much heat clustered in a small area, while that patch over there is much cooler"?

[@CaSuMog]

Small error detected: around 1:45 the number 2121 at „magma dyke from“ is maybe wrong ? Should be 2021 ?

[@skeeterinnewjersey5256]

I am putting at the top of my bucket list: "Open a proper bakery in Iceland!" 😁

[@jannekehelle1865]

Excellent art commentary 😂

[@JustIcelandic]

Impossible to ignore this artwork :)

[@anitamitchell3452]

It would be interesting to find evidence of the early history of the people and the use of the caves. I'd be willing to bet people did hide in them, why wouldn't they? Regards from Nevada, USA. PS: I hope you don't have any trouble getting your car repaired. I know a good 4 wheel drive is on your list of NEEDS!

[@JustIcelandic]

There is actually a young historian in the family now so I might move into history videos..., given I only have to ask the questions and edit :) that's the fun bit

[@erinmcdonald7781]

@@JustIcelandic That would be awesome! You have the gift of storytelling. I think you could turn watching paint dry into a captivating experience. ✌️😎🍀

[@palantir135]

Vörp is quite similar to the Dutch word Worp which means a throw.

[@JustIcelandic]

Thanks for sharing :)

[@Bigfoot1962]

I'll be in Iceland next week, for the 20th year im a row

[@JustIcelandic]

Impressive 😄 a true friend of Iceland and be very welcome

[@salzaward]

Fascinating ! But I bet volcanically steamed bread was delicious ! Maybe using ovens is where Icelandic bakers have gone wrong. I've eaten steamed bread in turkey - steamed in an underground fire (man made) - best bread ever !

[@susanhenke8441]

To bad about the birds. Great video

[@JustIcelandic]

Thanks 👍

[@laural3738]

I ❤ Icelandic sarcasm

[@JustIcelandic]

Thanks 👍 can't be without it

[@kamildowejko2254]

I know or ate no local bread of any nation, even my own, so I would like to taste icelandic one, no matter how horrible the taste would be :D

[@JustIcelandic]

Be my guest :)

[@gandfgandf5826]

"Iceland is known for having some of the worst bakeries in the world". Did I hear that right? If so, that's quite a claim to fame. Make an interesting tourist promo.

[@JustIcelandic]

And perhaps the worst bakery is in Akureyri, they've had 50 years to learn to make hod dog buns but still fail to do it properly. It's unbelievable

[@salzaward]

Oh well, but you've got a wonderful swimming pool !

[@bettyswallocks6411]

“Iceland has some of the World’s worst bakeries”. Which, of course means I have to try some fresh baked Icelandic bread. Very clever Icelandic Tourism Board reverse psychology! Perhaps they simply didn’t understand ‘lava bread’?

[@ves5624]

What’s not to love about sulfur-scented bread?

[@JustIcelandic]

🥵

[@Avarua59]

Could nickname it the devil's bread. 😊

[@sootikins]

@@Avarua59 Lucifer Loaves

[@caetlynrose4]

Bwahahahahaha! They Ate them... with potatoes. Part of me is absolutely horrified and the other part is peeing her pants in laughter. Thank you for the story..

[@JustIcelandic]

🤗

[@austin12ascot]

Lavabread!

[@JustIcelandic]

Better than modern bakery bread :)

[@cynthiarowley719]

The goats vote for another bakery, i assume.😮

[@JustIcelandic]

I'm sure about that :)

[@General_Confusion]

Considering all the other delicacies you guys like to chow down on, i would have thought volcano incinerated bread would make a pleasant change from rotten seal guts and all the other little titbits you like.

[@JustIcelandic]

"rotten seal guts " where did you get that from :) we are into rotten shark meat and fish that old man piss on so it gets a strong taste after the fermentation process.kzbin.info/www/bejne/bmHcgXiwgcpsp6M

[@wifinomad8105]

.❤.

[@JustIcelandic]

Thanks 👍

[@jdds1165]

The bakeries on iceland are great 😆😆😆

[@JustIcelandic]

Uff, the next door bakery to me had over 50 yrs to learn to make a hot dog bun but still failing at it :)

[@kdjones-q3p]

Auk, Laddie. Ye should not talk of birds which do not fly and swim underwater. They are NOT in the Bible". Note to file: they were the way Newfoundland, Canada was discovered and occupied. Also, I suspect most of the rest of North America. It was only after their distinction that sailors started to use the stars to find their way to America which was by then a serious economic bonus. Peace and Love

[@wifinomad8105]

.🤎.

[@JustIcelandic]

💚

[@RankinMsP]

😂😂😂😂😂 Brilliant. The bitcoin mining 😀 I didn't know about Iceland's slave history with Africa. Thanks

[@JustIcelandic]

Yes they should have kidnapped our bakers :)

[@ThatOpalGuy]

making those sheep obese, lol

[@d.k.f9782]

You are taking too many fish from 🌊

[@JustIcelandic]

The fishery industry is doing fine, it's a quota system here