Goðafoss — "waterfall of the gods" in Icelandic, though linguists also translate it as "waterfall of the chieftain" — sits on the Skjálfandafljót river in North Iceland, part of the Diamond Circle route near Akureyri.
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Name:
"Frozen Time"
Ref. Number:
0469 (Limited Edition - 55 copies)
Location:
Godafoss, Iceland
Artist`s Tale:
Godafoss: The Waterfall Of The Gods, Maybe
Goðafoss — "waterfall of the gods" in Icelandic, though linguists also translate it as "waterfall of the chieftain" — sits on the Skjálfandafljót river in North Iceland, part of the Diamond Circle route near Akureyri. The name comes with a well-known story attached: that around the year 1000, the lawspeaker Þorgeir Ljósvetningagoði threw his statues of the old Norse gods into the falls after declaring Christianity the official religion of Iceland. It`s a genuinely good story, repeated on nearly every travel site about the waterfall — and the oldest written version of it only dates back to the 19th century, several centuries after the event it describes supposedly happened. Whether the name really comes from that specific moment, or from something else entirely, isn`t actually settled. What is settled is the geology: the falls formed roughly 7,000 years ago from lava flows that reshaped this stretch of the river, carving the horseshoe curve the water drops through now — about 12 meters high, spread across a 30-meter width. The Skjálfandafljót itself starts far up in the highlands, fed by the Vatnajökull ice cap, which is why the water carries that particular pale, glacial color even this far downstream. "Frozen Time" catches the falls in winter, when ice builds up along the edges of the horseshoe and slows the whole scene down compared to the fast-moving summer version most photographs show. It shares that winter stillness with "Of Ice And Men", shot on a frozen fjord elsewhere in this collection.Awards:
Bronze Award in Nature Category, The Epson International Pano Awards - 2020.
Gold Award In The One Eyeland Photography Awards 2020.
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