Visiting Iceland in the 1930s - Remastered with Sound
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Date: 2023-12-29
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-fluchterschoen
It's beautiful seeing the fish-maidens at 6: 53 plying their trade. My grandfather captained a merchant vessel during the 1930s and 40s on the route between Iceland and the Shetland Isles. When I was young he'd often recount tales of the young ladies in Reykjavik he met on his travels. After spending their days splitting herrings wide open and revealing their moist pink flesh they wanted nothing more than some malodorous seamen in about them. His enduring anecdote was of the time he acquainted himself down below with seven Icelandic girls on top of a pile of day-old cod. It was mid-summer and he said the stench was horrendous, but the cod smelled glorious. Whenever he got a chippy-tea he always had a peculiar glint in his eye as he laid a tea-towel across his lap.
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It's beautiful seeing the fish-maidens at 6: 53 plying their trade. My grandfather captained a merchant vessel during the 1930s and 40s on the route between Iceland and the Shetland Isles. When I was young he'd often recount tales of the young ladies in Reykjavik he met on his travels. After spending their days splitting herrings wide open and revealing their moist pink flesh they wanted nothing more than some malodorous seamen in about them. His enduring anecdote was of the time he acquainted himself down below with seven Icelandic girls on top of a pile of day-old cod. It was mid-summer and he said the stench was horrendous, but the cod smelled glorious. Whenever he got a chippy-tea he always had a peculiar glint in his eye as he laid a tea-towel across his lap.
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-erynn9968
So many are surpirise how beautiful ppl are. Man it was shot before the era of antibiotics. That means, still, only the strongest survived. And Strong genes often give traits that we consider beautiful - that's how evolution works. It's the last generation of (more or less) natural selection.
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So many are surpirise how beautiful ppl are. Man it was shot before the era of antibiotics. That means, still, only the strongest survived. And Strong genes often give traits that we consider beautiful - that's how evolution works. It's the last generation of (more or less) natural selection.
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history
Wow, incredible video. First to see a nation a tribe, not a kaleidoscope working together in harmony with their environment. Even though its not pc I love seeing white people and the civilizations we create. Love my people.
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Wow, incredible video. First to see a nation a tribe, not a kaleidoscope working together in harmony with their environment. Even though its not pc I love seeing white people and the civilizations we create. Love my people.
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-gfritlev9956
Like a look at another world time passing brings us. I really enjoyed. At that time there were barely more than 100, 000 people living in Iceland and in 2024 it will cross 400, 000
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Like a look at another world time passing brings us. I really enjoyed. At that time there were barely more than 100, 000 people living in Iceland and in 2024 it will cross 400, 000
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-HansGrob
Back then, nobody could imagine that in the Mediterranean sea fish would get scarce 50 years later. Noone shoes any sign of obesity. No immigrants from other continents.
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Back then, nobody could imagine that in the Mediterranean sea fish would get scarce 50 years later. Noone shoes any sign of obesity. No immigrants from other continents.
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-jesuisravi
Nice job of colorizing this. It might be interesting to see some footage of before and after colorization, just to get a sense of the difference it makes.
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Nice job of colorizing this. It might be interesting to see some footage of before and after colorization, just to get a sense of the difference it makes.
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-wolfunplugged
wow. ich bin tief beeindruckt! das ist ja unfassbar, wie dieses alte material aufgearbeitet wurde und plastisch wie aus dem ei gepellt das leben zeigt!
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wow. ich bin tief beeindruckt! das ist ja unfassbar, wie dieses alte material aufgearbeitet wurde und plastisch wie aus dem ei gepellt das leben zeigt!
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-awax2585
None of these people had anxiety, depression or ADHD, nobody's running around half naked with weird hair colors and everyone is elegantly dressed.
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None of these people had anxiety, depression or ADHD, nobody's running around half naked with weird hair colors and everyone is elegantly dressed.
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-rjwkkel9448
Everything pure is good and beautiful Europe is turning into shit after immigrants floated here.
And this goes to any country around world
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Everything pure is good and beautiful Europe is turning into shit after immigrants floated here.
And this goes to any country around world
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history
Most of the world's people were from the poor working class, due to the difficult economies of their countries, as a result of wars and invasions.
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Most of the world's people were from the poor working class, due to the difficult economies of their countries, as a result of wars and invasions.
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-MarkKnight123
AI really needs got smarter than giving everyone purple clothes. The purple times. It's interesting but it's completely unrealistic.
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AI really needs got smarter than giving everyone purple clothes. The purple times. It's interesting but it's completely unrealistic.
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-g. f. w. 6402
For me as a German, the icelanders are something like our living ancestors. By studying Icelandic, we can learn a lot about German.
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For me as a German, the icelanders are something like our living ancestors. By studying Icelandic, we can learn a lot about German.
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-ericaceous1652
Interesting video, do think some of the grain should have been retained though, it's so clean that it starts to look unreal
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Interesting video, do think some of the grain should have been retained though, it's so clean that it starts to look unreal
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-dadadadada17
A really beautiful and serene white nation. Hopefully they will be able to preserve their culture and national identity.
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A really beautiful and serene white nation. Hopefully they will be able to preserve their culture and national identity.
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-102938475646665
they all look so healthy. would love to know what their diet consisted of. obviously a lot of fish, but what else?
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they all look so healthy. would love to know what their diet consisted of. obviously a lot of fish, but what else?
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-marksoreilly94
Can't you commenters watch a nice historical video without exclaiming that you suffer from Culture War Brain Rot?
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Can't you commenters watch a nice historical video without exclaiming that you suffer from Culture War Brain Rot?
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-RH-of5cr
fun to see these colorized but, for the life of me, I don't understand why people put fake audio on these. It's awful.
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fun to see these colorized but, for the life of me, I don't understand why people put fake audio on these. It's awful.
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-chairpants
Are Icelandic girls ready to work in fishing industry these days or is it done by Filipinos and Punjabis?
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Are Icelandic girls ready to work in fishing industry these days or is it done by Filipinos and Punjabis?
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history
In the beginning it says Iceland 1940's - what is correct? Fantastic restored by the way - Congrats: -)
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In the beginning it says Iceland 1940's - what is correct? Fantastic restored by the way - Congrats: -)
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