Then end of skammdegi

I am not sure what the official end date is for this Icelandic term, skammdegi, literally the "short days." In the United States, we have the beginning and end of daylight savings to help us mark the changes to the lengths of the days. But here I feel like it just happens day by day, we all know it is happening, we all anticipate the end of skammdegi, know it is approaching, even if there is not a particular end date set in stone somewhere. Today though, Heida, Gunnar and I here at the museum, in the midst of a bright sunny day when the light is shinning through the wall of windows, we decided skammdegi were ending. This means it is time for me to take down Yggdrasil, at least in its jólatré form. We are going to move it outside, to be a welcoming sculpture, at least until we can commission a new work of art.

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Anonymous said…
I don't think there's an official end to skammdegi anyway, but it's surely about this time of year. Þórbergur Þórðarson talks of 3. feb.

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