Elves and trolls hold a special place in the hearts of the people of Iceland. The tradition and mythology of the countrys small folk dates back to the 10th century AD, when the first Norwegian Vikings settled on the island. Tales of elves were first

发表于:2018-12-03 / 阅读(57) / 评论(0) 分类 自然百科2008年

The Warm, Green Place Called Iceland 生机盎然的冰岛 by Kevin Lustig In the middle of the North Atlantic Ocean, explorers from Norway discovered two islands. The larger one was covered in ice. _(1)_, while icy in the middle, was green and ferti

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(49) / 评论(0) 分类 常春藤解析英语

It's a sight only rarely seen and only first hand by the very dedicated or perhaps mad. Iceland's Eyjafjallajoekull volcano ended 200 years of quiet on Saturday with this. It's still going, which is why the scientists are closing in. There is as much

发表于:2019-01-07 / 阅读(64) / 评论(0) 分类 万花筒2010年

England's failed footballers will return home after the country's most humiliating defeat in its history made them a worldwide laughing stock. 英格兰足球队经历了其足球史上最耻辱的一次失败,这成为了众所皆知的一大笑柄。

发表于:2019-01-16 / 阅读(196) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

Im Bear Grylls. Ive served with the British Special Forces. Ive climbed to the summit of Everest and crossed the frozen oceans of the Arctic. Now, Im in Iceland, a land of huge glaciers and volcanoes. Every year, a thousand tourists need to be rescue

发表于:2019-01-23 / 阅读(53) / 评论(0) 分类 探索与发现2012年

Man, this place is bleak. Im here in the middle of winter. Just now its 15 degrees Fahrenheit. But in a few hours, it can get down to a deadly minus ten. Get some feeling back in the hands again. My goal is to show how you could survive in this waste

发表于:2019-01-23 / 阅读(52) / 评论(0) 分类 探索与发现2012年

But as quickly as it came, the storm lifts. And it gives me a brief chance to get my bearings. What weve got here is an ice cave. And caves can give you protection. The problem is this cornice all the way up there and how Im gonna get over this, over

发表于:2019-01-23 / 阅读(57) / 评论(0) 分类 探索与发现2012年

I was hoping this is gonna be a good place to shelter. But its not. Shes gonna act like a wind funnel. I need to think again and get out of here pretty fast now. As it grows darker, a storm once again is moving in. Ive got minutes before its gonna hi

发表于:2019-01-23 / 阅读(51) / 评论(0) 分类 探索与发现2012年

A snow hole like this will keep you out of the wind. The next thing I need do is to dig a bit of a pit down. And the reason I do that is that cold air sinks. So I dont want this cold air around me. So I want it to go down into what they call a cold w

发表于:2019-01-23 / 阅读(51) / 评论(0) 分类 探索与发现2012年

What you often get with crevasses is just a thin covering of compacted snow. Uh, its called a snow bridge. And you can see there just where one has collapsed. And this is why they are so dangerous. You dont know when you are on one, and you dont know

发表于:2019-01-23 / 阅读(76) / 评论(0) 分类 探索与发现2012年

Im in Iceland, tackling the dangers youd come across if you got stranded here. But a deep glacial river is blocking my route. My only option is to jump. Ok. Freezing water can send my body into shock. Im also rapidly losing heat and thats making me w

发表于:2019-01-23 / 阅读(47) / 评论(0) 分类 探索与发现2012年

Already I can feel the wind changing. And the Icelanders have a saying -- if you don't like the weather, just wait five minutes, and it will get a lot, lot worse. Im in the wilderness in Iceland. Here, there are huge freezing rivers like this. And an

发表于:2019-01-23 / 阅读(52) / 评论(0) 分类 探索与发现2012年

You know, thats kind of a manageable temperature. Ive got to get in fast and if I dont get these wet clothes off, my body will get into shock. In this wind, they should hopefully dry in maybe a couple of hours. But at least during that time I can lie

发表于:2019-01-23 / 阅读(42) / 评论(0) 分类 探索与发现2012年

And this is a kind of pretty nasty area where Ive got a boiling pool on both sides. Temperatures here are about forty degrees Fahrenheit. So it is warm enough for edible grasses, moss and lichen. Since Viking times, sheep have roamed free, grazing he

发表于:2019-01-23 / 阅读(51) / 评论(0) 分类 探索与发现2012年

I could actually eat the meat raw. But its harder to digest and can actually take energy away from the body. So cook meat whenever you can. You see here just where all the water is boiling. And all I need to do is take my shoelace off and then I have

发表于:2019-01-23 / 阅读(50) / 评论(0) 分类 探索与发现2012年

Now Im on the lookout for fuel for a nice warm fire. Therere loads of these birch trees around here, and these are what Im looking for. I can tell theyre birch just because of the way theyre silver-limbed. This time of year in the winter, all the lea

发表于:2019-01-23 / 阅读(66) / 评论(0) 分类 探索与发现2012年

13. Yeah, look at this. Look, see all of these for the holes. Thats what I'm talking about. The last volcanic eruption was in 2004, but some of these lava fields are ancient, more than 7,000 years old, and they hold a special place in Icelandic folkl

发表于:2019-01-23 / 阅读(53) / 评论(0) 分类 探索与发现2012年

Icelandic artist Snorri Asmundsson recently made news headlines for a very bizarre request hes asking dying people to donate their corpses for his latest art project. He apparently plans to use corpses in a dance video, promising to return them to th

发表于:2019-01-28 / 阅读(64) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

Reykjavikthe Fairy Capital of the WorldI celand, the land of fire and ice, is home to Reykjavik, the worlds northernmost capital. Home to just a little over 100,000 people, its hardly a giant among cities. But dont be fooled by its sleepy 1)appearanc

发表于:2019-02-07 / 阅读(85) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

Iceland, it seems, is full of hidden poets. 冰岛似乎到处都是隐藏的诗人。 When theyre not at their day jobs, a great many of the islands 330,000 inhabitants dabble in verse, including politicians, businessmen, horse breeders and scientis

发表于:2019-02-17 / 阅读(43) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻