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Andri Snaer Magnason's book,
"The Story of the Blue Planet"
has garnered significant attention.
This is perhaps the most political Icelandic novel I've
read in a long time.
Hulda!
Over there is the glacier tongue, look.
Whoops!
Over there is the glacier.
Over there!
Smile!
'Isgland'... Isgland?
Is this correct?
Yes.
Good job.
Iceland.
I can capture the Northern Lights!
Wow!
Look, they're moving.
Wow!
They disappeared - whoa!
They're over here now.
I don't think I've ever seen anything as beautiful.
How do you like it, girls?
It's awesome.
This is such a beautiful path.
Andri, are you with us? - Yes.
Wow!
You are living up to high expectations, Hulda.
We Huldas here.
In 2014, Ok Glacier was the first glacier to
die due to climate change.
Now, a funeral commemorating it will be held in August.
This funeral is the first of its kind in the world.
From a young age,
I just craved going to the mountains.
In the springtime, strangely enough,
I start to smell a glacier scent.
What is a “glacier scent?”
Well, I can't describe it.
- It was something special.
There was just this smell - it was exhilarating.
And when did you meet?
It was a meeting of mountaineers.
I liked her right away.
I used to say to my mom,
"Oh, I wish I was a boy, then I could do this and that."
To have more adventures.
I was just up for anything.
Arni says to me, "We are going up to the Vatnajokull glacier."
And I say, "Listen, can I go with you?"
The local skiers asked if I was crazy,
taking a woman up to Vatnajokull.
That’s completely ridiculous!
The largest glacier is Vatnajokull,
which covers about one twelfth of Iceland's surface
and is the largest glacier in Europe.
Trips up to Vatnajokull are an act of daring
only for well-equipped and highly experienced mountaineers.
We spent a whole week on the glacier.
I don’t think we have parted since.
We got married on Friday,
and left early the next morning for a three-week trip.
After that, we often went up to Vatnajokull Glacier
with the Icelandic Glaciological Society.
This was the beginning of the surveying.
These are the same measurements they are taking today.
Were you ever cold?
No, never cold.
We were newlyweds!
Do you consider the glacier to be your second home?
I do.
It’s a different world being on top of a glacier.
Everything is white.
It's just endless.
How old are you now?
I've forgotten everything.
- You're turning 95, my Arni.
- 95? - Yes.
Yes, you keep track of this for me.
Yes, yes, I do.
Completely.
And you always do.
I don't know how I would have gone through life
if I hadn't had her with me.
Ok Glacier was on a mountain in Western Iceland.
It was always known as Iceland's smallest glacier
but it will not be considered a glacier anymore
because glaciologist Oddur Sigurosson is on his way
up the mountain
to issue a death certificate for the glacier.
I put down the cause of death as extreme summer heat.
Ok Glacier was only about 700 years old at its demise.
That is to say, a mere infant among glaciers.
Around the year 1900 it was about 15 square kilometers.
But in the last 15 years,
it has shrunk faster than I imagined glaciers could shrink.
It has declined remarkably fast.
It doesn’t move anymore and that's why it is "dead ice."
This is Hlynur's first bath
with his mother.
Isn't this beautiful?
Here we have four generations lying on the grass.
The heirs to the throne.
The oldest man, with his oldest son, and his oldest son,
and his oldest son.
The oldest of them all.
I had never heard anything like it.
But when I started listening carefully to the lyrics,
it contained such sorrow.
It was...
about the collapse of the old ways.
As I listened to the constant repetition and rhythm,
I became enchanted by it.
We're filming him now, when he can't do anything,
and when he starts talking and being fun,
we won't take any photos of him at all.
But I'll always have this.
Andri, is there a zoom lens on that thing?
Are you sure? - Yeah.
When you look back over the last 50 years...
what stands out?
What?
It's how fun it is to make mistakes.
It's fun to make mistakes? - Yeah.
That stands out.
That stands out? - Yeah.
And it never pays to save money.
- It never pays to save money.
No. - No.
It was the loveliest proposal and confession
I've ever heard from a woman.
Is that so?
No Icelandic woman has ever said anything half as beautiful.
What did she say?
You want to know what she said?
That's a secret.
The loveliest proposal I've ever heard.
It's a secret. - It's a secret.
But we should definitely tell Andri.
No!
Everything's covered in flowers.
Petur Jonsson's gymnastics show.
That's Bosi, he's going swimming.
It's approaching midnight.
Grandma!
They're playing dodgeball.
A can of whipped cream.
The beautiful cake.
It's 11 o'clock.
Time for the boot toss.
Mmm, the steak is ready.
Hello Magga. - Hi.
Hello Hlynur. - Hi.
How old are you now? - Four.
How old are you, Hlynur?
Five.
Six years old.
Hey Kristín Lovisa.
Are you turning six months old?
Hulda Filippia,
are you one year old today?
Elin Freyja, how old are you?
Two years old.
Now I am three.
Have you gone nuts?
I am a wild child!
I'm only one year old.
Oh my, the tiny baby.
Magga, look how young you are now.
Only 30 years old.
- Aw, 31.
And how old am I?
You're five years old!
You took such special photos on the glaciers.
Yeah, I did...
What is your first memory?
I actually remember quite well when my dad died.
How old were you when he drowned?
12 years old.
It naturally...
was a very big shock.
First, I was...
engaged to another and had twins with him.
Two lovely girls.
He went to study in the United States.
And he found himself an American
and just broke up with me.
That was naturally a bit of a shock.
Another milestone was reached in the research
of Vatnajokull Glacier.
They were drilling to reach the ice core down there.
I was an assistant...
There I am.
This was fantastic.
Finally, an ice core has been obtained
containing valuable information
about the internal structure of temperate glaciers
and information on climate changes in Iceland
back to the year 1500.
That was, and is, quite special.
Smile!
I'm making a video.
Happy birthday, champ!
It's your birthday today.
That is why we sing a song.
on the same day
you were born
Congratulations on your lucky day, my lucky fellow.
My Grandfather, do you remember the honeymoon?
Do I remember -
The honeymoon up on Vatnajokull?
Oh no, I don't remember that.
It's ok, go ahead.
He has become so forgetful.
You have to kiss!
There you go!
Great! Great!
How long did she practice? 15 minutes?
15 minutes. Oh, oh, oh...
It's seven o'clock
and our thermometer shows...
36. (97F) - 36?
The thermometer on the house is at 50 (122F).
What country are we in?
Beneath the Vatnajokull Glacier lies a
restless family of volcanos.
We see the water from the glacier flowing down the slope.
A formidable force.
The flood tore massive icebergs from the glacier’s edge
and hurled them far across the sands.
Those standing here sense how small humankind is in
comparison to all of this.
Before we changed the landscape here,
there were these cliffs.
I saw Hidden People in the old days.
We once saw a Hidden Man suddenly appear...
and then disappear.
He disappeared? - Yes.
"I'm an elf woman," she says.
“Some of us live in cliffs..."
"while others live inside rocks."
She said,
“You can never fully see me"
"because it takes so much of my energy to appear to you.
"But if I draw more energy, I can speak to you."
"And even influence you."
- How are the new pants?
They're nice pants. - I had them shortened.
Yes.
They were too long.
I cannot resist the will of the elf woman.
She will keep appearing until I give in.
For example, she ordered me to marry Disa.
And I did it.
Hundreds of years ago they found birch logs
at the edge of the glacier.
It's very strange.
I don't understand it, but I'm not saying it isn't true.
A glaciologist expressed concern with the
retreat of Icelandic glaciers in recent decades.
He says the country will have no glaciers in 200 years,
possibly much sooner.
Such bad news is unprecedented in history.
And it constantly surprises us how it keeps receding
faster and faster.
This is the same phenomenon happening in Antarctica,
Greenland, the Himalayas and all areas with glaciers.
Iceland's glaciers are 1,000 years old now,
which in some sense means that
we lose 5 years of history every year.
There's a whole box there.
Let's see.
This is when we all went to the Highlands.
Yes.
Tell me your name.
Arni Kjartansson.
When were you born?
November 26th, 1922.
And what day is today?
It’s the 27th of March, 2004.
We are collecting sources and biological samples
so you can be cloned in the 22nd century.
...there is the land of my dreams
Seabirds are finding it hard to adapt
to climate change.
Recent figures indicate that the Icelandic puffin population
has declined by 70% since 1995.
Biologists say the main reason is the rise of
ocean temperature...
Your dad is videoing you.
I know.
Why?
It's so special to see an 11-year-old girl eating cake.
And ice cream. - And ice cream.
What do you think about that?
Look at this here.
A little more.
No...
Leave it there!
When this light goes out,
then start it. Now you can start it.
Clear the ball!
Yes, well done.
And forward, forward!
There were women learning strange poems from
their grandmothers.
Who learned it from their grandmothers,
who in turn learned it from their grandmothers.
You can feel how time shrinks down to nothing
when you look at it through these old women.
How was the wedding trip?
It was incredibly fun
and challenging.
We experienced all kinds of weather on the glacier.
Yes.
We were there for three weeks.
Three weeks?
Yes, on the glacier.
Wow.
That's a long time.
It was a fun time.
Can you ask her to calculate for you?
When she'll be 96 years old?
Do you want to figure out
when you'll be 96 years old?
Yes, yes.
We forgot to turn on the camera there.
Now, let’s do it once again.
Andri.
Should I say it?
Yes, you should ask.
When will you be 96 years old?
2104. - 104.
Yes.
It will be fun to know what will have happened by then.
Yes.
Hi Grandma.
It's then that I realized,
it's the same with people as with flowers.
They wither into puffballs
and spread their seeds.
But from the root, new life grows.
...but I think it's good for me to see her like this.
What jacket are you wearing, Hlynur?
Grandpa’s jacket.
Yeah, nice.
The jacket of the plains.
Go!
The singers of the swan songs are wrestled down by Time.
The new era erases the footsteps of our rhymes
The only way to keep the verses of the mother tongue alive...
...is to put this into the mouths of children
Hlynur.
Hey, what are you doing?
It’s out of focus. - I know, very out of focus.
Wasn't it supposed to be in focus?
It's not focusing.
Here it comes.
What do you think about time?
Time? - Yes.
Time passes incredibly fast.
There's always plenty to do.
I never feel alone.
And I often just start talking...
I feel like he is sitting in the chair next to me.
We've had a very enjoyable life.
It's good to have the memories.
I start to smell the glacier in April
and I look forward to going.
But now it's been a long time since I went.
I would need to go up with a plane, I think.