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Old Icelandic documentary about life in Hornstrandir (with subtitles)

*English subtitles listed as Icelandic* This is an old Icelandic documentary (1956) about life in Hornstrandir, the most northerly part of the Westfjords region of Iceland. The area is very remote, and after Iceland industrialized people started moving from the “back-water” to nearby towns. In 1956, when this movie was made, the last farmers were just leaving, and, in fact, the farm Reykjarfjörður, which has a starring role in this film, was abandoned just three years after its release – in 1959. Today the area is a nature reserve mostly visited by hikers and the descendants of former inhabitants who still own the land their farms stood on, and often stay there during the summer. This film was produced by Ósvaldur Knudsen, an Icelandic painter and filmmaker, and narrated by Dr. Kristján Eldjárn. When this film was produced, Dr. Eldjárn (lit. fire-iron) was the foremost archaeologist in Iceland but he would go on to become the third president of the nation in 1968.