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120 g Lamburger (lamb), garlic grilled mushrooms, cheese,
lettuce, tomatoes, red onion, sauce Béarnaise and french fries.
Those who taste The Lamburger will hardly be able to believe their taste buds.
THE LAMBURGER
Turninn Höfðatorgi
105 Reykjavik
Tel: 575 7575
Opening hours:
Sun-Wed. 11.00–22.00
Thu-Sat. 11.00–24.00
fabrikkan@fabrikkan.is
www.fabrikkan.is
Gullfoss and Geysir are surely a must-see in
Iceland, but neither is something you eat.
That’s why we have 13 brilliant and creative
hamburgers at Hamborgarafabrikkan
(The Icelandic Hamburger Factory).
Hamborgarafabrikkan would eat Hard Rock
Café for breakfast, but since there is no Hard
Rock Café in Iceland we eat our original
Lamburger with the wonderful Icelandic lamb.
The Reykjavík Grapevine awarded
Hamborgarafabrikkan the “Best Specialty
Burger 2010”. It made us happy. Because we
aim to please. That’s why we only use 100%
fresh high-quality ingredients, directly from the
Icelandic nature.
Attention: Our hamburger buns are not round.
They are square. Does it taste better? You tell us.
Be square and be there.
BE SQUARE AND BE THERE
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People usually don't fret when Iceland's most active volcano, Grímsvötn, starts spewing
a little lava. After all, it happens every few years—volcanic activity is a fact of life on our
remote rock in the North-Atlantic, and has been since way before any life forms made it there.
When Grímsvötn did its usual thing last week, however, people got pretty spooked... and who can
blame them, what with last year's Eyjamafjalladoodadodahecronöküll troubles and all? We report what
went down, and share some interesting eruption truths. Page 19
I c e l a n d :
S u c c e s s f u l l y
t r o l l i n g t h e r e s t o f t h e
w o r l d s i n c e ( a t l e a s t ) 1 0 0 0 B C
Four years ago, I wrote and researched a monstrous article
that probably none of you read (‘The Crazy World of the
Quota System (somewhat) Explained’, issue 11 2007). You
likely didn’t read it because it purported to be an explora-
tion-slash-explanation of ‘the crazy world of Iceland’s fish-
ing quota system’, it was really long and technical at times,
and Iceland’s fishing quota system is not a very interesting
topic to most of you (in fact, most of you have probably
stopped reading by now).
(Sidenote: if you are an Icelander and the fishing quota
system isn’t interesting to you, more power to you, but do
keep in mind that—regardless of the ‘creative industries’
(i.e. CCP’s) contribution—fisheries and how they are man-
aged are pivotal to how life on this island will evolve, and
by ignoring this you are basically ignoring every other is-
sue that your might or should care deeply about. It all goes
back to fishing).
However, as an Icelander, not being interested in the
fishing quota system, how it works, who it benefits, who it
affects negatively and how it does all those things is fairly
understandable. It has been a heavily debated point of
contention for this nation for well over two decades, and it
is usually discussed, no, shouted about in a most boring,
technical, complicated and obfuscated manner. A com-
plex, million year old argument that people like to engage
in by shouting unclear technicalities and odd sounding
words at one another? Sign me up! But not really.
Why am I bringing this up? Well, Iceland’s government
is currently trying to restructure the quota system in an
ostensibly revolutionary manner. The proposed change is
far removed from what the parties in charge promised in
their campaign literature and speeches, but it seemingly
still goes further in changing the controversial system to-
wards something that might at some point prove superior
to the one we have been embroiled in for far too long.
I say ‘seemingly’ since no one appears very sure of
what it means exactly, and the opposing parties in this
debate (the government and The Federation of Icelandic
Fishing Vessel Owners, respectively) are both fighting
heated PR campaigns to ensure their interests—the gov-
ernment wants people to think that it is keeping its cam-
paign promises and being all hardcore (because this will
maybe make people vote for it again) and TFOIFVO wants
people to think the sky will fall if the system is changed
(because it will mean this ultra-rich-ultra-powerful inter-
est group will stand to lose a lot of its money and power,
which is funny because if there’s one thing they’ve proved
repeatedly over the last few decades is that they are hor-
rible businessmen that deserve neither money nor power).
I won’t claim to fully comprehend the quota system,
and I won’t claim to fully comprehend the implications of
the proposed bill (again, finding a neutral assessment of
it is really difficult, because—like in so many cases nowa-
days—the only people that seem to care have much vested
interest in how it is perceived. We need a journalist, stat!).
However, I will make some claims about my own position,
based on what I have learned from being raised in a small
fishing community and also from following news and stuff,
and also having my fishing captain grandfather yell at me
about it. In Q and A form. Right now. It’s what I think.
Is a fishing quota system necessary?
Of course! There is a limited amount of fish in the ocean
(despite what you might have heard), and if we plan on
going about harvesting it for food and profit, we will need
to ensure that we don’t, like, catch every fish out there.
That might render fish extinct! Of course we need to con-
trol how much is caught annually, and we need to do this
based on sound scientific research and evidence.
What’s wrong with the current fishing quota system?
Nothing much. But then, so much. The problem isn’t that
we have a system to control how much fish we fish, the
problem lies in the execution.
What’s wrong with the execution then?
Well, firstly, the way the quota was handed out in the be-
ginning is, at best, suspect. Perpetual rights to uncaught
fish in the ocean were handed over to fisheries and ves-
sels in the early eighties based on previous years’ ‘fishing
experience’. If you wanted to start your own fishery after
that, you had to buy or rent quota from the folks it had
been allotted to initially.
Didn’t that make quota disproportionately valuable
compared to caught and processed fish?
Yes, but that maybe wasn’t a problem. Until 1990, when
they made the quota into a tradeable, mortgageable as-
set, effectively creating a ‘stock market’ for the sale and
renting of fishing quota. Picture this: you own a fishery
and some trawlers. And a lot of debt. Their total value is
x million ISK, and your total debt is double that. You now
suddenly have an intangible asset (“the right to catch, pro-
cess and sell an x amount of fish annually) that you were
given in the early eighties and that you may now mortgage,
rent or sell for very tangible rewards. This is your personal
property; the fishermen, workers and community who
contributed to the ‘fishing experience’ that earned you the
quota in the first place have no claim to it. You may do with
it as you will.
And I am free to sell, rent or mortgage it as I will? I
can sell it sans boat or fishery or staff?
You sure can! In fact, you can sell it without paying off
the debt of your fishery, which will be unable to function
without the quota and will have to rent overpriced quota in
order to operate, maybe from the very people you sold it to!
And I get to keep the money?
Yeah. Pretty much. It isn’t heavily taxed. There’s now a
nominal ‘resource tax’, but it’s... not very high. You can sell
that quota and move to a warmer climate, leaving the com-
munity that fostered you to wither away. Or! You can invest
in Reykjavík real estate development, shopping malls and
banks (interestingly enough, almost none of the infamous
‘quota sellers’ went on to invest in the communities that
fostered them)! You can even use it to buy a bank and
transform it into a hedge fund if you want! In fact, neolib-
eral mogul Hannes Hólmsteinn Gissurarson has remarked
many times that making the quota into a tradeable asset
was a prerequisite of the financial bubble we all know and
love (in the aforementioned article: “It has created a lot of
capital, and is one of the explanations for the accumulation
of capital abroad [...] the fish stocks [that] were a com-
mon good before, and therefore valueless, as all common
goods are, became a private good, and got valuable”).
Sounds great! I’ve also heard that this makes fishing
more efficient, as the quota accumulates to those
best fit to management, and thus creates more value
for society. What a great deal!
Well, define value. I keep thinking back to 2007, when a
couple of Norwegian officials visited Iceland to investigate
the transferable quota system (Norwegians already have a
fishing quota system, their quota’s just not ‘transferable’).
There had been a lot of pressure in Norway to adopt the
Icelandic system of tradeability, and these guys were sent
here to research if it was a good idea.
After travelling the country for months, conducting
their research, they were interviewed by RÚV radio show
Spegillinn on their way home. They were asked: “Will you
recommend Norway adopt our system?” Their reply: “No.
While we have discerned that it does create a lot of capital,
and we are interested in capital, we are also interested in
keeping our small fishing towns populated. We feel that
is efficient and valuable, too. If we were to recommend it,
we would make sure that quota trading would be limited
to larger fisheries and vessels selling to smaller ones, as
it seems to have accumulated in a few large fisheries in
Iceland. And this seems to have had a negative effect on
your fishing towns”.
So what you’re saying is...
A system to control how much fish we catch is very im-
portant. Creating an intangible, yet tradeable, rentable and
mortgageable commodity is not. It might appear efficient
It appears the verdict is in: with ‘Arabian Horse’,
beloved electro legends GusGus have crafted a
masterpiece of a record, with mesmerising tunes,
stomping rhythms and some hypnotic melodies.
Folks are already claiming it’s 2011’s strongest AL-
BUM OF THE YEAR contender thus far (with only FM
Belfast on the horizon posing a threat when ‘I Don’t
Want To Sleep’ drops).
Indeed, Grapevine reviewer Ragnar Egilsson
calls it “a perfect anthemic pop record” in his five
star review, which you may read on page 24 of this
issue. At the Grapevine offices, we’ve been blasting
‘Arabian Horse’ since we got our advance copy a
few weeks ago—and we’re not the least interested in
changing the playlist or turning it down yet.
For this issue’s TRACK, we decided to ask Gus-
Gus master Biggi Veira to make us a medley of the
album, so all you readers can hear what the fuss is
about. Biggi sat down and seamlessly mixed the ten
‘Dark Horse’ tracks into a smoothly flowing sampler.
Download and listen up, preferably on some nice
headphones.
GUSGUS
ARABIAN HORSE SAMPLER
TRACK OF THE ISSUE
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SELFOSS / Accordions b
y Davið Þór Jónsson / Ba
njo by Högni Egilsson / S
tring arrangements by S
amúel
Jón Samúelsson / Stri
ng performance by Ro
land String Quartet / S
trings recorded by Add
i 800 /
BE WITH ME NOW / Vo
cals by Daníel Ágúst &
Urður Hákonardóttir ak
a Earth / String arrange
ments
by Samúel Jón Samúels
son / String performanc
e by Roland String Quar
tet / Strings recorded b
y Addi
800 / DEEP INSIDE /
Vocals by Daníel Ágús
t & Högni Egilsson / Ac
cordion by Davíð Þór J
ónsson
/ OVER / Vocals by Da
níel Ágúst & Urður Hák
onardóttir aka Earth /
ARABIAN HORSE / Vo
cals by
Daníel Ágúst & Urður H
ákonardóttir aka Earth
/ Backing vocals by S
tephan Stephensen and
Birgir
Þórarinsson. WITHIN
YOU / Vocals by Daníe
l Ágúst & Högni Egilss
on / Accordion by Dav
íð Þór
Jónsson / String arran
gements by Samúel Jó
n Samúelsson / String
performance by Roland
String
Quartet / Strings recor
ded by Addi 800 / MAG
NIFIED LOVE / Vocals
by Daníel Ágúst / CHA
NGES
COME / Vocals by Birg
ir Þórarinsson / WHEN
YOU’RE LOVERS GON
E / Vocals by Högni Eg
ilsson
/ Lyrics by Atli Bollaso
n / Accordion by Davíð
Þór Jónsson / Snare b
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n / Saw
by Eric Alm / Saw reco
rded by Petter Winnber
g / String arrangement
s by Samúel Jón Samú
elsson /
String performance by
Roland String Quartet /
Strings recorded by Ad
di 800 / Ókey bæ perfo
rmed by
Jón Leifs / BENCHED /
Slide guitar by Davíð Þ
ór Jónsson / Saw by Eri
c Alm / Saw recorded by
Petter
Winnberg / All tracks
produced, performed a
nd mixed by GusGus /
All tracks written by
GusGus
except / Within You / G
usGus, Högni Egilsson
and Atli Bollason / Dee
p Inside / Gusgus and
Högni
Egilsson / When You’re
Lover Is Gone / GusGus
, Högni Egilsson and Atl
i Bollason / Over / Gus
Gus and
Hákonardóttir aka Eart
h / Be With Me Now / G
usgus and Urður Háko
nardóttir aka Earth / G
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are / Birgir Þórarinsso
n, Daníel Ágúst Haralds
son and Stephan Steph
ensen aka President Bo
ngo /
Artwork by Paul Mcmen
amin / Photography by
Wojtek Kwiatkowski / B
and Photography by Ar
i Magg /
Assistant Auður sæta /
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dios & Bongomachine /
Thanks / Davíð Þór Jón
sson &
Colgate, Högni Egilsson
, Urður Hákonardóttir, L
inda Loeskow, Jenný &
Jón, Paul Mcmenamin,
Sigrún
Daníelsdóttir, Silja Sóle
y, Rökkvi & Pétur, Cath
y Lapka, Daníela, Una
& Lilja, Addi 800, Sam
úel Jón
Samúelsson, Guðmundu
r Óskar Guðmundsson, R
oland String Quartet, He
lgi Svavar Helgason, Sig
tryggur
Baldursson, Jimi Tenor
& Nicole Willis, Eric Alm
, Petter Winnberg, Niss
e, Gabríel Patay, Fjölnir
Tattú,
Sunneva & The Sirkus
Crew Faroe Islands, Sig
ga & Jóel Briem, Gabrí
ela Friðriksdóttir, Lárus
Páll &
Jóní Jóns, Hjalti Egilss
on, Margeir & Jón Atli,
Michael Mayer & Komp
akt, Sebastian Bohnenb
erger &
Greatstuff, Heimir Sver
risson, Aron Arnarsson
, Jón Skuggi, Agnar He
rmannsson, Erla Indrið
adóttir
& Einar Benjamínsson,
Páll Borg and special
summerhouse greeting
s go to: Magnús Steph
ensen &
Bergljót Þorsteinsdótti
r, Daníel Þórarinsson &
Ingibjörg Nordahl. Con
tact details: man@gusg
us.com

BE WITH ME / I’m lyin
g in my bed / And it fe
els / Just like a prison
cell / I’m trying to get
sleep now /
With my head / Stuck
in a vacuum shell / An
d I want you to be her
e / From the bottom /
Of a wishing
well / Be with me now
/ I’m turning in my bed
/ And my mind twists
/ Like a whirlwind hell
/ I’m rolling
in my bed / Wrapped u
p / In your binding spe
ll / Be with me now / W
ITHIN YOU / You train
down to the
gutter / So bad it bites
reality / Echoing s un
ds of your lover / You
tied down your breath
for a while /
May take some time so
metime / Find a dime a
nd I shiver / Who cares
where you carry your
name / Tied
down by your lover / B
reak my heart and lea
ve you may / That’s yo
u, that’s you, that’s yo
u / Try on /
You cannot make time
go backwards / Or ma
ke it run fast forward /
It will go on without y
ou / Clear is
my mind echoing throu
ghout within you / Lay
my heart down easy in
your hands / Found ou
r hearts are
made to shiver / So ri
ght would you play me
again / Shared by one
another / The tears in
our veins /
Make your pause. I’ll d
eliver / My gold, I’ve so
ld my gold / Making my
heart work harder / So
it can beat
much faster / It will go
on within me / After m
y time of passing throu
gh / Within you / You c
annot make
time go backwards / O
r make it run fast forw
ard / It will go on with
out you / Clear is my m
ind echoing
throughout within you
/ MAGNIFIED LOVE /
I’m done for I give up /
Surrender my physica
l mood / You
make me walk blindly /
Right out of my comfo
rthood / You stroke me
you strike me / As som
eone who
is in control / You eat m
e you feed me / You no
urish my hungry soul /
Hungry soul / My mag
nified love /
Magnified / You push m
e you shove me / You m
ove me every night / Y
ou make me go lightly
/ You move
every cell in my body /
In my body / You own
me! Physically! / Posse
ssing me spiritually / M
y magnified
love / Magnified love /
DEEP INSIDE / When
you opened my heart
I was t hrown / Deep i
nto the Milky
Way / The adrenaline r
ush that I got from the
crush / Blew me away
/ Opened doors. Open
ed wide. Deep
inside / You rose in a c
ertain way / I could fee
l how you grew and I kn
w / Y u would steal my
heart away
/ De p inside, deep ins
ide / Why did you crash
steal my heart and go
/ Deep inside, deep an
d tight / My
teeth are sore on your
front door / I’m dry, I’m
d y, I’m dry, I’m dry / D
eep inside the Milky Wa
y / Now I’m
pushed and / I’m pulled
I feel flushed / I’m com
pletely out of place / A
nd the blood that was b
oiling with
lust / Now is frozen in
my veins / I am stuck
in a rut with the thoug
ht when my life / Was
swept away /
How cathartic when m
y heart exploded / Insi
de the Milky Way / Dee
p inside, deep inside /
Why did you
crash steal my heart a
nd go / Deep inside, de
ep and tight / My teet
h are sore on your fron
t door / I’m
dry, I’m dry, I’m dry, I’m
dry / Deep inside the M
ilky Way / OVER / We’v
e made our mistakes o
ver / We’ve
gone up and down / Ov
er and over / Once aga
in I have crossed / Dou
ble-crossed over / I be
trayed our
trust / Knocked it all o
ver / Over. Over / And I
wonder why / Why we
didn’t try, this time / D
idn’t even try
/ Try to make things ri
ght, over / As you won
der why / Why we didn
’t try / We didn’t try th
is time / We
didn’t even try / Try to
make things right this
time / With the wind th
is will blow / It will blow
over / Is the
time, time to mend / O
ver? / Maybe we can d
elve / Deep into ourse
lves, over / Find the sm
allest flame
/ Re-install the game /
Over / ARABIAN HOR
SE / Disappear into th
e dust / Lost on your h
orse / Blown
away by your gust / Lo
st on your horse / Dese
rt land under the sun /
Lost on your horse / L
ike a grain of
sand / Lost in your stor
m / On the crossroads
take a left / Lost on you
r horse / Too bright to e
ven see the
sun / More and more s
and in my eyes / Riding
on. Getting lost / Lost
on your horse / Disapp
ear into the
dust / Lost on your hor
se / Racing on the dese
rt dunes / I chase you l
ike a moon / But on the
crossroads
take a left / Lost on yo
ur horse / CHANGES C
OME / Maybe I just wa
nt to be alon / Tired o
f searching
for the way back h me
/ Stuck in the state of
no state at the deep e
nd of sorrow / Change
s come, but I
can’t follow / Stay, Sta
y, Stay, Stay away /Tou
ched by evil, nothing m
ore to say / It’s so easy
to turn you
on. / But just as quick
ly, then you’re gone /
Stuck in this state of n
o fate with sight fixed
on tomorrow
/ Changes come, and y
ou do follow / Stay, Sta
y, Stay, Stay away / To
uched by evil, nothing
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Haukur’s 41st Editorial

Illustration: Sveinbjörn Pálsson
www.sveinbjorn.com
WTF! FISHING QUOTA SYSTEM?
to harvest and process all our fish in a single monstrous
and automated freezer trawler, but it really isn’t! By that
same logic, it would be extremely efficient if all Iceland-
ers lived in a single apartment complex in Breiðholt (how
much would we save on heating and transportation costs?
A lot!).
So what’s being changed now?
I’m not sure. Maybe we’ll have an article on it in our next
issue. Maybe not.
URGENT CORRECTION!!!
We’ve made a huge mistake. In last issue’s super awesome GUIDE
TO EVERY BAR IN REYKJAVÍK, we erroneously reported the prices
of ‘Beatles-bar’ Obladi Oblada. We also neglected to mention the
fact that they indeed have a pretty awesome ‘happy hour’ every
day of the week, and that it starts earlier than any other ‘happy
hour’ we know of.
The correct prices for Obladi Oblada are as follows:
BEER: 650 ISK // SHOTS: 650 // SINGLE + MIXER: 900
HAPPY HOUR: 500 ISK beers, 600 ISK shots, 800 ISK single + mixer.
They also asked us to tell you that they regularly host some
legends of Icelandic music (last week they had Engilbert Jensen!)
playing Beatles-tunes in their own style. Every Thursday has the re-
portedly excellent house band performing along with special guest
stars. “It is a must-visit for every fan of the Beatles or good music”,
they say. Sorry for our errors, Obladi Oblada. We have spanked the
reporter in question.