Amazing Cemetery in Iceland
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- čas přidán 9. 09. 2024
- Hólavallagarður is situated in central Reykjavík. It is the largest 19th-century cemetery in Iceland, with its oldest grave dating back to 1838. Many of the tombstones and sculptures are very artful, and some have a historical and cultural significance. Many notable Icelanders are buried here, including Jón Sigurðsson, Iceland's national hero, Bríet Bjarnhéðinsdóttir, often dubbed the first feminist, and Jóhannes Kjarval, Iceland's best-loved painter.
The graveyard also houses victims of the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic, as well as a handsome monument to French sailors lost at sea. The cemetery was fully booked by the early 1930s, but families that bought their plots before then can still bury their dead here.
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I have a strange fascination with old cemeteries. They have a kind of beauty to them.
I agree
But this one isn't old. It was opened in 1838. The one it replaced, and which had been used since Viking times, would have been so much more interesting.
Their lives live on in those trees.....in a way, a different way, they live again. Beautiful video.
OZARKMEL I was thinking the same thing. It’s beautiful.
Hi Chris, that cemetery was actually really beautiful, a very peaceful and enchanting place with beautiful birdsong from every tree. What a lovely place to be at rest in, thank you for sharing. x
Majestically beautiful isn't it. The trees, though not that old show a passing of time, a stillness that can't be described but can be experienced.
Well put
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A beautifully enchanted and peaceful resting place for the dead. The guardian was watching you, his sentries following you, but sensed you meant no harm. It was decided it was not your time to join their number, so you were allowed to pass. A stranger of the Living, come only to perview what will (in your time) become your fate.
Thank you, Gentle Soul!
A excellent presentation!
Love it! The cats are there, and, apparently, well cared for.
It's a long held belief cats are the defenders from the dark.
Great vid! I always love them and, please, do more!
Beautiful white cat! (with a collar). The cemetery was also really nice, the birds chirping was nice to hear. Oh the stories those in the graves could tell... thank you!
That’s such a cool cemetery so interesting. Every culture has their own beliefs. I’m a cat lover so I would fit in Iceland. 😁
Such a beautiful place. I love the letting nature take it’s course philosophy while at the same time not letting it become overgrown. ☮️❤️
I was in Iceland in 2007 for a horseback riding tour. What a beautiful place it is. Those trees would be coveted because there are very few mature trees in Iceland. The Vikings used so much of the existing growth for building that the land was essentially cleared. There is an effort now to regrow forests but it will take a long time. The cats are thriving because there are really no natural predators in Iceland such as coyotes or wolves like we in North America have in our urban areas. The other thing that impressed me about Iceland was that pretty much every person I encountered spoke perfect English making travel there very easy. The people were very nice.
WOW. Pretty much all I can say. That country is so beautiful.
Wow, right out of a Stephen King nightmare I say. I could spend hours in places like this here. great video, my friend!
Love visiting old cemeteries. So much to learn. I've explored a few on my channel that had some cool historic connections. This one that you showed is particularly interesting though. Thanks!
I feel you have the best exploration videos. You go to different places than everyone else and it's refreshing.
What a beautiful and peaceful cemetery! My mom (born and raised in Germany) was taught that cemeteries are supposed to be peaceful, not scary. This is amazing.
Can you imagine what that cemetery would look like during and after a snowfall? Probably beyond beautiful.
Beautifully haunting
Love walking around cemetery's specially old one's ..
Thanks for taking us along & sharing all your adventure's .. helps me decide where I want to visit .. 🤗
Maybe you will come explore Australia one day ..
That was just very cool and peaceful. Thank you for sharing.
Such a uniquely, beautiful cemetery, complete with watchful felines. Thank you
A very unique, mystifying & beautiful. Thank you for sharing. Enjoyed very much.
Thanks for the additional information in the video notes.
Neat tour. I liked the fun facts you posted along the way.
Thanks or sharing.
Very Interesting place. Next to Ireland .. Iceland is the second place I would love to visit. Thank you for sharing and Stay Safe.
I would love to see Ireland one day
Beautiful Thank you Chris
Wow, that is beautiful, both view and sound.
Awesome video we are going to be doing some cemeteries out of our way too.
Keep up the great work I love this channel and you have a good voice for narration
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What a lovely walk through and a beautiful place. Thank you!
Very cool Chris,Not my cup of tea but really amazing and thank you for showing me Iceland..Safe Travels.TY
My man. Amazing content as usual. But ur looking very tired , get few good nights sleep. Really love ur vids. From London UK
Stunned by the beauty of this place really awesome...thnx for sharing Chris..u just got a new subscr from the Philippines
Great find! Enjoying your Icelandic journey.
Very interesting and cool cemetery!! Its great to see what other cultures cemeteries!! Great video!!
Icelanders seem not so respectful of their dead.
Fun fact, if cemeteries are not properly maintained, trees will grow over the plots, and the roots will break in to the coffins and feed off the nutrients of the bodies, so the trees literally eat the people.
Who knew Iceland had trees! I thought it was just a barren landscape! I would love to see an Icelandic forest if they had one.
That place is amazing and beautiful. Thank you for sharing.
Awesome video. Kool cat as well.
Iceland has many cats? ok, it's definitely my dream country! ❤
Hi, Chris. Thanks for sharing. If I didn't know you are in Iceland, I would think it looked like a southern Georgia or Louisiana area. Especially with all the moss and very green trees. I always pictured Iceland as being a more snowcovered mountainous landscape. Maybe some of the spirits of the dead live in these cats.
Hello Chris, I've just started binging your videos because i love abandoned places and history and i think ave found my favorite one. I just so happen to love cemeteries and that was one of the most beautiful ones i have ever seen. I wish you captured more dates on the grave stones but the well preserved 1850's one was beautiful. Hell they were beautiful. Just want to say i love what you do and you should check out some abandoned and wacky places here in Washington state. Hope to see more.
Beautiful video.
I tend to be fascinated by cemeteries since I happen to live across the street from one which dates back to about 150 years ago. Hólavallagarður is truly beautiful. I hope that you'll be able to spend quite a lot of time in Iceland and sharing it with us. Two paws up from my cats. One of them was sitting on my lap as I watched this video.
Really neat thanks for showing!
What a beautiful place! Maybe the cats in the cemetery are souls that are buried there. Oh my, could you imagine?
A unique and beautiful place.
Beautiful Cemetery. Thank you for taking us along.
Very interesting. Thank you for sharing.
Love the video great work
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So beautiful! Thanks, Chris!
Hello, the cemetery is beautiful with all the moss growing everywhere, you always go to places I really like, it's got to be really old, but the sign said that they are still putting people in there when they pass away, thanks for showing the Cemetery to us.
Thanks
What an interesting cemetery - spooky yet peaceful at the same time. Reminds me of a cemetery you might see in an old black and white horror movie set in Europe. Friendly cats is a bonus when you're walking through a place like that - maybe the ghosts are friendly too? :) Thanks for sharing!
What an amazing graveyard! It's gorgeous! Thanks for sharing!
This is so beautiful! Thank you!
One thing for sure, they were loved..
Stunning
I'd like to think that this will eventually happen to us all. The universe, the earth will allow us to grow again. Its beautiful.
So beautiful
That cat that was first shown when he walked up about 4 minutes in little more. He did have a collar on or something around its neck
2:17 ?
Probably lived in a nearby house
I saw that too. Probably visiting from a neighboring house.
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That's beautiful & peaceful. The cats are guarding the cemetary. Spooky....cemetary cats.
Wow beautiful cemetery,
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Love this
Very interesting and appropriate; sort of I guess (Re: Oct. 31st). I really enjoy seeing very old things like this. It's a good reminder that one day future populations will be looking at artifacts and other left over things from our generation.
Trees! They do have them in Iceland. Saves me a google search. Our local cemetery is about the same age, but that one looks 800 years old instead of just 200, very cool.
Icelanders seem not so respectful of their dead.
No disrespect to the dead, the natural non embalmed bodies make great fertilizer for the trees. Same in the Bronx NY, old St. Raymond cemetery looks somewhat the same having very creepy trees. The same goes for the old church in Westchester Square.
Wow nicest cemetery I’ve seen. Great video. Thank you 👍
I've been thinking for years about being buried in the woods and having a tree planted on top. That way my grandchildren can climb it, just like I climbed trees when I was young.. ❤️
3:52 ghost says "piss off"
Cats says "Nooo"
Awesome. I've always said that when I die make sure that you plant a tree on top of my grave. So that what is left of me may become food for a tree.
I am new to your site and I love it. Please be careful with the climbing.
Those trees walk around a night....creepy 😬😬
Beautiful and serene. So lovely.
Of course the most fertile soil is where the remains are buried... :o)
I love going to cemetaries at night. Love the added creepyness!!
5:53 the big rock head stones, beautiful natural and affordable. That's how I'd do it
Really *Loved* the 'Look' of this Cemetery ! The Ferns, the Trees, the Birds, the moss covered stones.. so peaceful. Such a shame American Cemeteries are so Sterile looking.
Beautiful during day I agree, but I would definitely not want to be lost there at night 😳
Awesome
That's an amazing cemetery. I hope you can show us more cool things around Europe.
I suppose the trees could contain elements of the humans beneath. Great vid 👍
Just saw the Pet Cemetery remake last night on Netflix. And now I'm seeing this. What a coincidence!
You’ve seen his vid on pet cemetery ya?
thats the cutest cat ive seen.. was it stray?
Wow thats a cool place, so serene! 👍🏻
I visited a blue hole swimming hole when I was a kid, but but before that my step dad would scar my sister and I by taking us to an unmarked cemetery. After I grew up. I found this cemetery in the woods and I realized that it was real. If you're ever in Alabama, I'd love to drop a pin on maps for you and let you discover these 200 year old tombstones
Pristine in a natural way❤️
wow, that was cool...
There is a cemetery outside Belfast Northern Ireland called roselawn and it is covered in trees as all the deceased in this cemetery have been cremated and they plant a tree with a plaque to identify the grave if it weren’t for the plaques it wood look like managed woodland and not a cemetery
This is the old cemetery. There is also Fossvogs cemetery and Grafarvogs cemetery. If you look at gardur.is/ you can look up every cemetery in Iceland (as far as I know) and who is buried where.
Oh, oh, oh
Try going through there on Halloween. Creepy and scary
Thanks iceland a great place. May be trees are less due to less minerals in soil and cold weather. So when get the human bodies may be with seeds from the birds these cemetary are scatteted with trees all around due to the human fleshes.
I'm scared
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The tree cemetery 🌳
That land would be very fertile and nutrient cause of the people buried there, it’s nature at its best and I really like it...
Icelanders seem not so respectful of their dead.
I would love the icelandic view and weather but i am deathly alarugy to Cats so srew that.
Cool place I’ve only been to the airport I flew in on the now defunct WOW airlines on the way to Paris might have to go visit
Beautiful cemetery and it has cats , I can die now lol 😝 😹🐱
The Kitties are wearing collars so they must belong to the grounds keeper, they are not feral cats. Walt in Miami
4:44 Was that a viking grave?😕 Looked like it could have been!👍