The wonders of Iceland’s Westfjords have been featured as part of a new article posted via CNN’s travel website.
Within CNN’s article, Jonah Flicker writes that the peninsula of Westfjords is Iceland’s most remote region, and only a six hours’ drive from Reykjavík.
The article points out a selection of landmarks and sights in the Westfjords, which make the region unique to the rest of the country – these being Ísafjörður, Bolungarvík, the Museum of Icelandic Sorcery and Witchcraft, and Rauðasandur.
The Westfjords’ most notable town is Ísafjörður, a village with just under 3000 residents situated in Skutulsfjörður. Ísafjörður is noted as being a great, well-equipped area for visitors.
UPDATED: 10:18 EST, 25 October 2013
Many people will be planning scary costumes for Halloween, but nothing is likely to compare to this pair of macabre trousers.
In 17th century Iceland, sorcerers wore ‘trousers’ made of a dead friend’s skin that were said to bring them wealth.
According to legend, a morbid deal was struck between two friends to arrange who became the trousers or ‘necropants,’ which were used for purposes of traditional magic at the time.
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The only surviving pair of Necropants (pictured). They were made by skinning a dead man and according to legend, were worn by a friend to bring him wealth and luck. The coin and piece of paper with a magical symbol drawn upon it is shown to the right of the ‘trousers’