Reynisdrangar
Reynisdrangar (Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈreiːnɪsˌtrauŋkar̥]) are the basalt sea stacks situated under the mountain Reynisfjall [ˈreiːnɪsˌfjatl̥] near the village of Vík í Mýrdal in southern Iceland. It is framed by a black sand beach[1] that was ranked in 1991 as one of the ten most beautiful non-tropical beaches in the world.[2] In 2021 Reynisfjara [ˈreiːnɪsˌfjaːra] was rated the sixth best beach in the world.[3]
Legend
[edit | edit source]Legend says that the stacks originated when two trolls dragged a three-masted ship to land unsuccessfully and at the break of day turned into needles of rock.[4]
Contemporary legends note the story of a husband who found his wife taken frozen, having been abducted by the two trolls at night. The husband made the two trolls swear to never kill anyone ever again. His wife was the love of his life, whose free spirit he was unable to provide a home for; she found her fate out among the trolls, rocks, and sea at Reynisfjara.[5]
In popular culture
[edit | edit source]Reynisdrangar appears several times throughout Netflix's Icelandic original series Katla, and is particularly significant to the series' protagonist Gríma as the site of her mother's death.[6]
See also
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External links
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- Beach at Reynisdrangar virtual tour Archived 2018-07-06 at the Wayback Machine
- NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day: IIcelandic Legends and Aurora (8 December 2015) - featuring Reynisdrangar
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