A walking tour of Reykjavik's spooky side

The Dark Deeds literary walk takes around and hour and …

The Dark Deeds literary walk takes around and hour and half, it's free of charge and suitable for everyone.

The Reykjavik City Library hosts the Dark Deeds Literary Walking Tour in English this summer. The focus will be set on the shadier side of Reykjavik as it appears in folk tales, ghost stories and modern fiction – ideal for tourists with a literary inclination.

The tour takes place every Thursday in June, July and August at 3 pm, leaving from the Reykjavik City Library, Grófin, in downtown Reykjavík.

 Guided by knowledgeable library staff, the tour takes people on a walk between locations in downtown Reykjavik connected to various literary texts: in Grjótaþorp, the oldest part of Reykjavik, a reading from Sjón’s Moonstone conjures up an image of a plague-stricken Reykjavik in 1918, when 60% of the city’s population fell ill with the Spanish flu. At the National Theater, an excerpt from the king of Icelandic crime fiction, Arnaldur Indriðason’s The Man from Manitoba, takes us back to the windswept streets of Reykjavik during the Second World War. The Corpse Cat and ancient ghost Glam also make chilling appearances.

The Dark Deeds literary walk takes around and hour and half, it's free of charge and suitable for everyone. 

Reykjavik City Library | Grófin Culture House
All Thursdays in June - August from 15.00 - 15.30.

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