Welcome back! The footage is outstanding . One might even say that it's moving - although not always literally so. It seems to me that you're far more expert about the country than "the experts " are. I think that you're performing a wonderful service and I hope that your countrymen especially appreciate your efforts and your professionalism as much as do I. Thank you!
Among the many things I look forward to learning on your channel is learning hot to pronounce words that look like alphabet scrabble! Beautiful content.
Such an amazing country! I think Im loving your drone too! Love the sheep, ponies and interesting how the cattle leave the seed grass alone. Love your videos!
I so miss Iceland! Tho we only been lucky enough to visit once, so far...that's all it takes for it to become embedded in one's heart and soul! Thank you for keeping it alive for us!
Wow and wow! What an amazing country! Also very beautiful. Iceland is such a young and 'alive ' landscape. The Australian landmass is vast but quiet and ancient.. I'm so glad I found this channel. Thank you for this interesting video. Ps: glad you're back
Always looks forward to your videos, no matter what the subject matter might be. I find it all so interesting. It's unlikely I'll ever make it over there, so this is like traveling, without going anywhere. A slightly unrelated question: What vehicle do you drive, and how does it handle the conditions there? I picture everyone in Iceland driving huge 4x4 overland vehicles. The kind people have over here, but never actually go anywhere rugged with them.
Thank you for this, what great footage - as a geology student back in 1983 we spent 2 weeks camping in the middle of Torfajokull mapping geothermal springs, fantastic memories that have stayed with me since then. Hope to return one day!
@@JustIcelandic it was a great idea to show actual human plumbing, because you mentioned the "plumbing", the connections under Iceland, how it all connects to one big structure... A great "picture"...! A perfect move to show this.
Firstly let me say I love your accent, it reminds me a little bit of North Wales when they speak English! Those horses are beautiful, are they friendly? Your photographic skill is excellent and I realise there is so much to see and to know about Iceland, thanks for the views and the knowledge.
I struggle with his accent, probably because I'm a Kiwi lol. Love the content, shots, video and his knowledge, but I miss many of the words because he runs them together and talks quite fast. I have Welsh neighbors and I don't always know what they are saying ;) Anyway it's my problem, I'm 75 now and the only other accent I struggle with is a thick Indian accent, so I doubt I will sort it before I die. Merry Christmas.
So surprised at how green it still is in the lower regions. The white horse has the right idea, doze in the sun while you can. Soon Icelandic men will be heading to the pubs for long drawn out beers and even longer conversations about how many more letters can be put on place names! 🍻
@@ianmangham4570 you would be suprised how much can icelandic men talk. My husband is Icelandic (we live in Iceland) and he talks SO MUCH MORE then me. And if he meets with his brother/dad/uncle/friend, their conversation hardly stops. It sometimes can even get quite annoying :D
A 60 kilometer fissure would be something to see but I somehow doubt that it would attract tourists the way Geldingadalur did. Iceland has so many sights to see, this photography has made me put Iceland on my bucket list.
A 60 Kilometer fissure eruption would be disastrous. The Laki Eruption was a 30 Kilometer fissure eruption and killed 50-80% of lifestock and about 25% of the Icelandic Population. The Northern Hemisphere cooled down 1.5°C for the next few years. But Rhyolithe does not form fissure eruptions it makes the highly explosive eruptions. That Caldera is there for a reason
@@JustIcelandic When you mentioned it, it made me think that I’ve never actually seen any drone footage of the aurora’s. Can’t wait regardless of quality.
Currently Spain has taken Iceland's thunder however thank you for your coverage of the volcano in your country you have kept well entertained for months.
A very good video, in every aspect. Good information, beautiful pictures and videos, and everything connected with a good "story". Having a story is really good, yes, good point. And your voice is good, very relaxing, clear, a nice accent but not a disturbing accent, your voice is really good, you make us curious about what you might present us in your next videos, wonderful. (I might have missed one or two, what a shame... I'm looking after the ones that I have missed...)
So nice of you, I did actually add subs to my latest video so I'm little by little trying to get this perfect, practising for a full documentary :) and great to hear that you like my production :)
@@JustIcelandic yes, it's great. I don't need subs, you speak very clearly. But in case someone needs them, they are there. Edit: Oh ,yes, but the subs for the Icelandic words are really welcome. That's a great idea! :-)
@@JustIcelandic okay. I'm just dying to hear his take. He's a knowledgeable but humble guy. If he doesn't know, he'll say so. But you can bank on his educated guesses.
I still have nightmares about the gravel roads on the peninsula. Such endless winding roads full of potholes! Tried 3 times, but 2 times I turned before I reached the (touristic!) destiny. Was surprised that these roads in the touristic south are so bad! But then again, old lavafields are a challenge to build a road through, I guess.
🤣 That is choice . . "The roads around here are just as bad as our politicians" 🤣 . . that's so good. I love that you include details of the seismic activity and what can be deduced from that information, it really helps to educate us all about how these systems work and not only in Iceland.
Not as such, it's just a vent that opened up under glacier so it's no more risk of an eruption there compared to the other old vents/tuff mountains around, and thanks :)
I have an odd question: given the climate, how are your roads so smooth? Here in the UK our roads come apart after a freeze. Some of the ones in Scotland are full of holes.
Well I think it's because they are designed for our weird climate, all from hot summers to very cold winters so the have to have the flex to move as they need with the temperature. But the road administration started to use "nature friendly " oil few years back and that when the problems started, the asphalt took of with the bigger trucks and so they had to stop with this "Vegan Road project"
So much going on, it is almost as though the whole plumbing system under Iceland is being pressurised and that we're seeing the signs everywhere at the independent historical eruption points. I wonder if we even have the technology (given the size of Iceland) to see the whole picture, or even several parts at a time. Do you think in the back of your mind, this is a more inclusive inflation? I don't want to put words in to your mouth, I am guessing you're having those thoughts, hence the outlining of wider picture on these systems in this video. Thoroughly enjoyed your video as with all previous.
From the perspective that I've been looking at earthquake activity on almost daily basis for the last 10-15 yrs, I have the feeling that something is pushing and something will give in sooner than later, Bárðarbunga is the worst case scenario, but Grímsvötn are also getting ready and the connection between those systems hasn't been explained all that much around here. One of my question is if Bárðarbunga is controlling the rest of the systems? and many more...But I bought a recording equipment the other day and plan to visit a volcanologist when I get the time to do so, and ask...ask...ask :)
@@JustIcelandic That's very very interesting. Maybe it is all a bit connected like a loose volcano cone with gravel all around. And this material gets pushed here and there, some streaks of that material get moved more than other parts, it breaks up on the more or less vertical surfaces that rub against each other and so on. I think when we see Iceland a bit like a loose and moving and warping heap of gravel (not as one single big block of concrete) with magma pushing somewhere from below, we might understand it better - or we might not ;-) I'm not an expert, I'm just thinking about everything I see ;-) So maybe I am wrong, the possibility is high, but I think we should not see the ground as something incredibly sturdy like a big block of concrete... ... everywhere on the planet, not "only" on Iceland, but there is much going on under the surface of Iceland... There are stronger parts, there are weaker parts, some parts are heavier than others, they move against each other, opening possible magma channels and so on... And everything is more or less swimming on top of the rather liquid earth's mantle... The tectonic plates are like the dark patches on an active lava lake... They constantly move around and something like 5 seconds on a lava lake is like 100 years on the whole earth ;-) So it's hard for us to see the whole picture clearly...
Have you taken footage of the recent auroras caused by the X-flares last week? I imagine they looked spectacular in iceland. Getting a good idea about volcanic plumbing system is really hard unfortunately. A lot of information about them comes from the material that is spewed out during volcanic activity (obviously). That gives us an idea about whether and where magma is stored, how many storage systems might exist etc. But to get a sub-surface picture we need to employ geophysical methods. The best would be a seismic survey. which can give us indication where material is partially molten or hotter than surrounding country rock. To get a good resolution in the hundred m-scale you need a relative dense network. Quite challenging to do that in the icelandic highlands I reckon. And then you need to wait for some earthquakes to occur to get decent data (this might not be the problem in iceland luckily). There exists a long extinct stratovolcano relatively near me and it was subject to intense geophysical and geochemical analysis. This way we got a really precise about its unerground structure. And this one (the Kaiserstuhl volcanic complex) is a baby volcano compared to your icelandic ones. Just to give an idea what kind of work is required to get a picture of the hidden subsurface world we could never visit otherwise. Here is a video showing the results: ruclips.net/video/WJ8CEr1nJnQ/видео.html
Hi this is Roland awesome to everybody I spoke on this subject quite a while ago and it seems to me that the name Iceland is not real name the real name is volcano land because even you that live there must realize that over 40% of your island is not an island it is a number of linking volcanic eruption's that's of lasted for more years than most people can imagine but on top of that that is Titanic displacement That will last longer than the human race
I dont think spending billions on roads is a good idea with the volcanoes prone to destroy them. It would be cheaper to buy more cars suited to the rough roads which can be made easily and wont matter if they got cut off.
"Thinking in stories not just photo and video frames.." Brilliant! Shows in your work.
Thank you so much 😀
"always pleasing to the eye".... absolutely! Such a pleasure to watch your vids. Thank you again.
Thanks again!
Welcome back! The footage is outstanding . One might even say that it's moving - although not always literally so. It seems to me that you're far more expert about the country than "the experts " are. I think that you're performing a wonderful service and I hope that your countrymen especially appreciate your efforts and your professionalism as much as do I. Thank you!
Another beautiful video! I'm looking forward to the next one!
Your production is stunningly professional in every regard.
Yay, thank you!
Gorgeous footage combined with geology and culture talks. Love your work.
Thank you so much 😀
Looking forward to your coming content. Your videos are always fun and interesting.
Awesome! Thank you!
Lovely to hear your voice again
Thanks for listening :)
Those Icelandic horses are beautiful!
They are, I will show more of them later on, still collecting shots for a longer video about them :)
Goodness, it's mind-boggling !! I had to stop drinking my coffee to concentrate ........... !!
Yes I think that 2022 will be just as strange as 2021
Weird. I just looked on your channel to see if I'd missed a notification and wondering if u were ok. Glad to hear ur bk.
All good :)
Among the many things I look forward to learning on your channel is learning hot to pronounce words that look like alphabet scrabble! Beautiful content.
Thank you! 😃
Yeh, as if us English speakers need to practice Icelandic.
Best to you, too, Gylfi. Love the colors.
Thanks :) wish I had some drone footage from there but it has to wait :)
This man has a great sense of humor haha
Glad Iceland is still being represented. What a beautiful landscape. Don't want to miss a thing about it. Loving the humour too thankyou
Thanks a lot, appreciated :)
Thank you
Excellent as always :-)
Thank you! Cheers!
Thank you for your updates. Glad to hear you are good and keeping us informed of your beautiful land.
Much Love and Peace from Colorado
Such an amazing country! I think Im loving your drone too! Love the sheep, ponies and interesting how the cattle leave the seed grass alone. Love your videos!
Thanks for watching :)
I so miss Iceland! Tho we only been lucky enough to visit once, so far...that's all it takes for it to become embedded in one's heart and soul! Thank you for keeping it alive for us!
Thank you :) will do my best :)
The truth is that the whole of Island is a volcanic system, some parts older, some parts younger, some parts more active, some parts less.
Well said :)
Wow and wow!
What an amazing country!
Also very beautiful.
Iceland is such a young and 'alive ' landscape.
The Australian landmass is vast but quiet and ancient..
I'm so glad I found this channel.
Thank you for this interesting video.
Ps: glad you're back
Just wonderful! Thank you!
Welcome :)
Thank you as always for fascinating and beautiful views of Iceland.
Many thanks!
I remember time spent visiting Landmannalaugar - just magnificent. Thanks for this reminder.
Always looks forward to your videos, no matter what the subject matter might be. I find it all so interesting.
It's unlikely I'll ever make it over there, so this is like traveling, without going anywhere.
A slightly unrelated question: What vehicle do you drive, and how does it handle the conditions there? I picture everyone in Iceland driving huge 4x4 overland vehicles. The kind people have over here, but never actually go anywhere rugged with them.
Thank you dear for your footages and explanation. I wud luv to see some Icelandic Northern lights video.i m Gopa from India .
This is my last aurora video :) and greetings to India :). ruclips.net/video/Uy8hXfDS7hU/видео.html
Thank you for this, what great footage - as a geology student back in 1983 we spent 2 weeks camping in the middle of Torfajokull mapping geothermal springs, fantastic memories that have stayed with me since then. Hope to return one day!
Yes it's a fantastic region, will be all over it next summer with the drone :) and welcome back to Iceland :)
I love your road trips in the car. And, I was wondering what happened to you. Glad you're still here.
So interesting! And beautiful 🤗❤️🌿
Thank you! Cheers!
YAY! Another video from Iceland! I just love it!
Yay, thank you!
I find it interesting that you show a picture of a brewery when talking about the plumbing under Island.
Ehhh. I didn't notice it was from a brewery, stock footage :)
@@JustIcelandic it was a great idea to show actual human plumbing, because you mentioned the "plumbing", the connections under Iceland, how it all connects to one big structure...
A great "picture"...! A perfect move to show this.
Firstly let me say I love your accent, it reminds me a little bit of North Wales when they speak English! Those horses are beautiful, are they friendly? Your photographic skill is excellent and I realise there is so much to see and to know about Iceland, thanks for the views and the knowledge.
I struggle with his accent, probably because I'm a Kiwi lol. Love the content, shots, video and his knowledge, but I miss many of the words because he runs them together and talks quite fast. I have Welsh neighbors and I don't always know what they are saying ;) Anyway it's my problem, I'm 75 now and the only other accent I struggle with is a thick Indian accent, so I doubt I will sort it before I die. Merry Christmas.
@@warreneast8477 Aah I understand, my dads family are from North Wales so it makes it easier for me. Merry Christmas and a very good new year.
Experts and Alarmism ---- Warm greetings from San Francisco and welcome back
So surprised at how green it still is in the lower regions. The white horse has the right idea, doze in the sun while you can. Soon Icelandic men will be heading to the pubs for long drawn out beers and even longer conversations about how many more letters can be put on place names! 🍻
They would if they talked to each other 🤣
@@ianmangham4570 you would be suprised how much can icelandic men talk. My husband is Icelandic (we live in Iceland) and he talks SO MUCH MORE then me. And if he meets with his brother/dad/uncle/friend, their conversation hardly stops. It sometimes can even get quite annoying :D
@@prasatorisko 😊🙏👍🇬🇧
🌋🌋 I loved Landmannalaugar! That hot spot, at midnight, was amazing!
Yes it's a magical place, glad u noticed :)
Love the gravel road ,makes Iceland.
I agree, they have a soul :)
Don’t know how anyone can sleep there,I would sleep with one eye open :)) Thanks for including beautiful horses! Stay safe and healthy.
Massive post.thank you so much.
Glad you enjoyed it
Whatever blows next, your pics and vids are as your home is: BREATHTAKING. Thank you so much, stay safe, best wishes from France!!
Thank you very much and greetings to France :)
I just love your videos. Can't get enough of them.....just love your country,'s flora and fauna. Take care love from the UK
You are so kind and greetings to UK :)
The story is what makes your videos so interesting, plus the great imagery. So glad you are back with the updates!
Thank you so much :)
Riviting.
Thankyou for sharing this information
My pleasure :)
A 60 kilometer fissure would be something to see but I somehow doubt that it would attract tourists the way Geldingadalur did.
Iceland has so many sights to see, this photography has made me put Iceland on my bucket list.
A 60 Kilometer fissure eruption would be disastrous. The Laki Eruption was a 30 Kilometer fissure eruption and killed 50-80% of lifestock and about 25% of the Icelandic Population. The Northern Hemisphere cooled down 1.5°C for the next few years.
But Rhyolithe does not form fissure eruptions it makes the highly explosive eruptions. That Caldera is there for a reason
Thanks and welcome to Iceland :) nice to hear :)
Just wow with this video. Can’t wait for the coming ones. Please tell me you got northern lights with the drone …..😲
Thanks, I made an experiment the other day, the drone can get the Northern light but not in HQ :) but more to come soon :)
@@JustIcelandic When you mentioned it, it made me think that I’ve never actually seen any drone footage of the aurora’s. Can’t wait regardless of quality.
Absolutely Beautiful footage I’m continually amazed at the beauty of your country.
Thank you very much :)
Absolutely, stunning beauty, Iceland. Thank you, for these wunder presentations.
Many thanks!
Thank you for such a beautiful video. The colours and land formations fascinating as is the history of the geology of the region.
Many thanks!
Your videos are always entertaining, I love your laid-back humour - and truly beautiful to watch. :)
Oh thank you!
Thank you. Keep the stories coming.
Will do!
Currently Spain has taken Iceland's thunder however thank you for your coverage of the volcano in your country you have kept well entertained for months.
A beautiful land. Thanks for sharing.
My pleasure :)
"...always some good footage that will please the eye." 13:33 - Cinematic Gylfi strikes again!
DO my best :) thanks
Greetings…..
Land lift
Rough roads
And drone footage,
You make my day SO interesting!
Thank you
Glad to hear and have a nice day :)
What are the breed of horses there ??? Beautiful scenery all around… Thank you
Beautiful places! Fabulous footage, Fascinating information. SUBSCRIBED!
Awesome :) Thanks for the sub and welcome :)
Love it from Texas..
Thank you. Missed you.
More to come soon :)
A very good video, in every aspect.
Good information, beautiful pictures and videos, and everything connected with a good "story". Having a story is really good, yes, good point.
And your voice is good, very relaxing, clear, a nice accent but not a disturbing accent, your voice is really good, you make us curious about what you might present us in your next videos, wonderful.
(I might have missed one or two, what a shame... I'm looking after the ones that I have missed...)
So nice of you, I did actually add subs to my latest video so I'm little by little trying to get this perfect, practising for a full documentary :) and great to hear that you like my production :)
@@JustIcelandic yes, it's great.
I don't need subs, you speak very clearly. But in case someone needs them, they are there.
Edit:
Oh ,yes, but the subs for the Icelandic words are really welcome. That's a great idea! :-)
@@JustIcelandic the subs for the Icelandic words are very welcome, great idea!
Thank you for a fascinating insight into your country
My pleasure :) and welcome
Thanks!
Welcome!
Awesome! Oklahoma, USA
Greetings to Oklahoma :)
I really enjoy your drone footage.
I appreciate that, thanks :)
Very interesting
Glad you think so!
Another beautiful video! Did you ever hear back from Nick Zentner about the mystery hills?
Not yet, I did leave a link on his YT page...
@@JustIcelandic okay. I'm just dying to hear his take. He's a knowledgeable but humble guy. If he doesn't know, he'll say so. But you can bank on his educated guesses.
Thanks! Excellent!
You're welcome!
That road seems like a marvel of engineering to be cut through those fields like that.
Very interesting 👌. Bringing home the bacon, well done✔ 🤣
😁 welcome :)
Lovely
Thanks :)
I still have nightmares about the gravel roads on the peninsula. Such endless winding roads full of potholes! Tried 3 times, but 2 times I turned before I reached the (touristic!) destiny. Was surprised that these roads in the touristic south are so bad! But then again, old lavafields are a challenge to build a road through, I guess.
🤣 That is choice . . "The roads around here are just as bad as our politicians" 🤣 . . that's so good.
I love that you include details of the seismic activity and what can be deduced from that information, it really helps to educate us all about how these systems work and not only in Iceland.
Thanks for noticing :) I really don't wanna sound like a tourist brochure :)
I guess politicians are the same wherever you go 😒 But thank you for the absolutely spectacular visuals!!!
Yes they are all the same, everywhere :) and thanks :)
Brilliant video. I love to follow you, is Keilir really a volcano? 💕🧐😄
Not as such, it's just a vent that opened up under glacier so it's no more risk of an eruption there compared to the other old vents/tuff mountains around, and thanks :)
stories are the best
Do my best thanks :)
Velcome back..haloooooo
Hello and thanks :)
I have an odd question: given the climate, how are your roads so smooth? Here in the UK our roads come apart after a freeze. Some of the ones in Scotland are full of holes.
Well I think it's because they are designed for our weird climate, all from hot summers to very cold winters so the have to have the flex to move as they need with the temperature. But the road administration started to use "nature friendly " oil few years back and that when the problems started, the asphalt took of with the bigger trucks and so they had to stop with this "Vegan Road project"
So much going on, it is almost as though the whole plumbing system under Iceland is being pressurised and that we're seeing the signs everywhere at the independent historical eruption points. I wonder if we even have the technology (given the size of Iceland) to see the whole picture, or even several parts at a time. Do you think in the back of your mind, this is a more inclusive inflation? I don't want to put words in to your mouth, I am guessing you're having those thoughts, hence the outlining of wider picture on these systems in this video. Thoroughly enjoyed your video as with all previous.
From the perspective that I've been looking at earthquake activity on almost daily basis for the last 10-15 yrs, I have the feeling that something is pushing and something will give in sooner than later, Bárðarbunga is the worst case scenario, but Grímsvötn are also getting ready and the connection between those systems hasn't been explained all that much around here. One of my question is if Bárðarbunga is controlling the rest of the systems? and many more...But I bought a recording equipment the other day and plan to visit a volcanologist when I get the time to do so, and ask...ask...ask :)
@@JustIcelandic That's very very interesting.
Maybe it is all a bit connected like a loose volcano cone with gravel all around. And this material gets pushed here and there, some streaks of that material get moved more than other parts, it breaks up on the more or less vertical surfaces that rub against each other and so on.
I think when we see Iceland a bit like a loose and moving and warping heap of gravel (not as one single big block of concrete) with magma pushing somewhere from below, we might understand it better - or we might not ;-)
I'm not an expert, I'm just thinking about everything I see ;-)
So maybe I am wrong, the possibility is high, but I think we should not see the ground as something incredibly sturdy like a big block of concrete...
... everywhere on the planet, not "only" on Iceland, but there is much going on under the surface of Iceland...
There are stronger parts, there are weaker parts, some parts are heavier than others, they move against each other, opening possible magma channels and so on...
And everything is more or less swimming on top of the rather liquid earth's mantle... The tectonic plates are like the dark patches on an active lava lake... They constantly move around and something like 5 seconds on a lava lake is like 100 years on the whole earth ;-) So it's hard for us to see the whole picture clearly...
I like your channel 😘👌
Thank you so much 😀
Do vids on the historic places like the viking settlements and archeological sites if your getting bored with volcanoes.
You will like my next one then :) online soon
Have you taken footage of the recent auroras caused by the X-flares last week?
I imagine they looked spectacular in iceland.
Getting a good idea about volcanic plumbing system is really hard unfortunately. A lot of information about them comes from the material that is spewed out during volcanic activity (obviously). That gives us an idea about whether and where magma is stored, how many storage systems might exist etc. But to get a sub-surface picture we need to employ geophysical methods. The best would be a seismic survey. which can give us indication where material is partially molten or hotter than surrounding country rock. To get a good resolution in the hundred m-scale you need a relative dense network. Quite challenging to do that in the icelandic highlands I reckon. And then you need to wait for some earthquakes to occur to get decent data (this might not be the problem in iceland luckily).
There exists a long extinct stratovolcano relatively near me and it was subject to intense geophysical and geochemical analysis. This way we got a really precise about its unerground structure. And this one (the Kaiserstuhl volcanic complex) is a baby volcano compared to your icelandic ones. Just to give an idea what kind of work is required to get a picture of the hidden subsurface world we could never visit otherwise. Here is a video showing the results: ruclips.net/video/WJ8CEr1nJnQ/видео.html
Yes, will be online in few hrs :)
@@JustIcelandic very nice! Looking forward to it.
Hi this is Roland awesome to everybody I spoke on this subject quite a while ago and it seems to me that the name Iceland is not real name the real name is volcano land because even you that live there must realize that over 40% of your island is not an island it is a number of linking volcanic eruption's that's of lasted for more years than most people can imagine but on top of that that is Titanic displacement That will last longer than the human race
😍😍👍
Welcome :)
Does anyone know what the online shop is called?
It's here :) www.redbubble.com/i/mug/Bring-Home-The-Bacon-by-gylfigylfa/93996109.9Q0AD?ref=explore-for-you-recently-viewed
@@JustIcelandic thanks
🙏🏻❤️👍
How many trolls live there? 😅
It's less than 200 now
@@JustIcelandic Negative, Mary just had triplets. 😀
.❤.
Poor cows
Yes indeed :)
🤓✌🐏👍
As always, very welcome 👍 :)
Jæja 😁
I dont think spending billions on roads is a good idea with the volcanoes prone to destroy them. It would be cheaper to buy more cars suited to the rough roads which can be made easily and wont matter if they got cut off.
This is in fact something that I need to talk about later in in a video and thanks :)