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Wednesday's are wonderful because entrance to museums is free in the city. Today we explored Reykjavik's Culture House, but we didn't get a chance to look at the Medieval Manuscripts, as they have been removed temporarily due to necessary maintenance of the display cabinets. (!) Some of Jeramy's classmates (studying Old Norse mss) swore they saw someone rushing into a back room with a pile of precarious original texts in their arms. After looking at the carefully sealed cases with nothing in them today, I couldn't continue to believe the seductive story. Still, it seems weird to perform maintenance on the cases built to house a temporary exhibit. Potentially they discovered (too late) that there was a problem with them?


Two exhibits were particularly interesting.
     1) A display about scribes and early book-making materials--in particular the reported marginalia of the scribes: "the lines are faint because my ink is weak" and "I find writing boring."
     2) The menagerie of taxidermic animals (above).


We didn't buy parkas, opting for a layering of fleeces, down liners, and shells instead (sticking to a budget, we decided we could use a collection of items we already own--but we did settle on two new purchases from 66 North, a specifically Icelandic outdoor clothing company). When I asked the sales person what she would recommend, she still favoured the parka--"it's like putting on your house."


Tonight we're off to see Olivia Pedroli (Lole) at Kaffibarinn as part of Bedroom Community's monthly events. I'm going to wear a skirt and try out my new leggings--will they be enough to keep me warm?