fuckyeahrichardiii:quoting-shakespeare-to-ducks:girlmeetssherlock:Cafe Loki, Reykjavik, Iceland I wa
fuckyeahrichardiii:quoting-shakespeare-to-ducks:girlmeetssherlock:Cafe Loki, Reykjavik, Iceland I was really excited to find this, but it’s not just a fun find; it’s also an excellent restaurant. Highly recommend if you’re ever in Iceland.Iceland was a location for Thor: The Dark World, and Tom visited that restaurant!So I was in Reykjavik for a Chaucer conference two summers ago and stayed within walking distance of this place for a week and a half. The last two nights I was there I stayed at the Loki Guesthouse which is two doors down from the Cafe Loki. They’re both on Lokastigur which is basically “Loki’s Street” except that “stigur” means “goat path” in Old Norse or “trail” in modern Icelandic so Loki sort of gets the shaft compared to the other gods the nearby steets are named after, like Þorsgata, Baldursgata, Njarðargata, and Oðinsgata (Thor’s Street, Baldr’s Street, Njord’s Street, Odin’s Street).I will share some pictures of my adventures at the Cafe Loki and the Loki guesthouse, both of which I highly recommend. First off I tried to mimic the Tom Hiddleston picture so here I am epically failing at it:Evidently Tom Hiddleston is either about twelve feet tall or he was followed around by a really good photographer who could get that picture.We had lunch at Cafe Loki at least five times when we were in Reykjavik, and it was great food. I ate the vegetarian dish because even though I love seafood and lamb usually, for some reason Icelandic seafood mash and smoked lamb was not my thing. (Otherwise Iceland was perfect, from a tourist perpsective.) My husband had the mega-Iceland platter every day and enjoyed their hákarl (fermented shark). Here is Loki at Cafe Loki enjoying some fermented shark:You can’t actually see the hákarl because it is in small white-ish cubes that come in those cups with toothpicks that you use to stab the hákarl and eat it. I found the very concept of it stomach-turning but developed a great crack theory about how early Viking women came up with the recipe. More on that later.Anyway while at the cafe we were also joined occasionally by Thor and Daenarys Targaryen. They enjoyed drinking beer for lunch:The most interesting thing I saw at Cafe Loki was this huge wall mural that a local artist named Siggi Valur painted. It depicts the most famous moments in the life of Loki in the sagas. On the far left side of the mural was the death of Baldr the handsome, blonde, and apparently very, very tall:If you look closely you can see that Loki appears very pleased with himself. I’ve got to say that Hod looks pretty untrustworthy here too. Next up is the “whoops I got knocked up by a horse” moment:Look, there are romantic rainbows and everything to heighten the mood. In the foreground is a salmon which I assume alludes to the story that comes at the end of Lokasenna where Loki transforms into a fish to escape the Æsir whom he has royally pissed off. Spoilers: they catch him! And make his family life hell!My favorite part was on the far right, because it shows Loki actually busting out of the chains (frozen entrails of his dead son, long story) he’s been bound in and ready to go start Ragnarok. He’s pretty pissed. Sigyn also seems excited that shit’s about to get real, especially because she gets to show off her new “Happy Ragnarok, I can put down this fucking bowl finally” celebratory boob job. The snake suitably irritated. In the foreground is my husband, the handsome bastard. His huge head is blocking part of the picture, sorry:Anyway, yes, I recommend the Cafe Loki. The food is awesome and it’s just a neat place. And a couple of doors down is the Loki guesthouse, which is an affordable, comfy place. I have pictures from there too but they’re rather boring because they’re all of lego Loki in the shard bathroom posing next to the hair products that had LOKI HOUSE written all over them. They turned out to be less interesting pictures than I thought they would be.First of all this is so wonderful and what a lovely trip ♥However, I couldn’t help noticing that my biggest botanical pet peeve- the one I must face every Xmas season- is inescapable even in Vikingland… since they are clearly depicting Baldr being killed by HOLLY instead of MISTLETOE.Seriously, just google mistletoe and it’s crazy how half the results are photos of holly, which looks nothing like mistletoe!I’m sorry. It’s just that even Loki (along with countless druids) would be flipping out over this. Only mistletoe could kill Baldr! -- source link