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Okay. I made a few changes, added a few new sections and material so that this page would contain the same sections as the page about Akureyri does. Added:

• Economy
• Sites of interest
• Colleges and universities (with complete lists of colleges and universities)
• Sports teams (with complete list of sports teams)

and a new Administration section.

--Ómar Kjartan Yasin

Changed colleges into gymnasia, which is correct. --165.123.138.170 16:57, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

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The page

http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_relations_of_Iceland

claims that the Reagan-Gorbachev-meeting was held in 1986. What is correct?

'86 --Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 23:02, 2004 Mar 30 (UTC)

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The introduction claims that the first settler chose the spot "after his high-seat pillars had washed upon the shore". What exactly are "high-seat pillars"? I presume this is a translation issue, but it means absolutely nothing to me. Does anyone know what is meant? - IMSoP 23:06, 16 Feb 2004 (UTC)

I added that bit and made a link to a stub called "Öndvegissúlur" (the Icelantic name for these things) witch should give the reader some idea what this meant.KiloGramm 00:38, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

High seat pillars are the two pillars by the back of a high seat in a Viking ship. The high seat was the seat of the chief. These pillars were related to nordic mythology and were probably meant to protect the chief and the crew from the elements. I'v not come across any other english term to describe this and I feel "high-seat pillars" to be quite descriptive. - Biekko 12:40, 19 Feb 2004 (UTC)

"Pillars of Importace" is the direct translation, but perhaps the meaning of the word has changed ower the years.KiloGramm 00:38, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

I see - perhaps that explanation could be noted in the article and/or something linked from it, for those as baffled as I was. - IMSoP 15:25, 19 Feb 2004 (UTC)

I'm workning on rewriting the whole Reykjavík article and I might try to make this clearer there. - Biekko 16:21, 19 Feb 2004 (UTC)

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Contents 1 New article 2 Stærsta smáborg í heimi? 3 Not IPA 4 No severe congestion? 5 Daylight/sunlight 6 New category for the nordic/scandinavian capitals? 7 Beginning of the article 8 Pronunciation bug

[edit] New article

I've rewritten and expanded this article, I think this form of the article also allows for more future expansions. Anyone is of course encouraged to revise the article and make improvements and expansions. I am yet to write the administration and infrastructure passages but they are coming. Biekko 18:44, 28 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Since Akureyri now has a fact sheet, there should be one for Reykjavík as well. I've copied the Akureyri one here and shall paste into the article when ready.

The article claims reykjavik means Bay of Smoke, I heard though, that it is named after Viking York, Javik am I totally mistaken?

I'm afraid you are :) Bjornkri 22:12, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)

You might be confusing the City of York's (UK) Jorvik Viking Centre, and Reykjavic. (Barry m 04:28, 14 January 2006 (UTC))

[edit] Stærsta smáborg í heimi?

Where does this nickname come from? Does it have any official standing? Me and my friends generally refer to the city as Borg óttans (e. City of fear) or Sódóma :) --Bjarki 12:01, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Aaahh, Scandinavian Sin... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell%2C_Norway

[edit] Not IPA

The phonetic description at the top of the page is not IPA, though it says it is.

I have changed it to IPA. Krun 18:15, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

And I've changed it to what I think is slightly more readable IPA :) - Haukur Þorgeirsson 08:08, 18 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] No severe congestion?

Congestion is one of the matters the city dwellers complain most about and what do they say is to blame? The fact that the city is spread out! Especially the way it is spread out with residential areas mostly disconnected from industrial and commercial areas. This means that most people can't walk or ride a bicycle to their workplace and have no choice but to use their car (The bus system is rather unpopular because in this "car friendly city" the buses are stuck during rush hour). There are also parts of the city that are not particularly well served by the traffic system such as the city center and the city's eastern suburbs (whose outlets to the wide multilane highways are often congested). Maybe the inhabitants haven't seen much real congestion like the ones that occur in big cities like New York but listen: Reykjavík is NOT a big city even if it may have the heart of a big city. And i think there is a strong case to consider it as having severe congestion. The point I'm making is that the view represented on this issue in the article is highly debatable. - Andrés Böðvarsson --85.220.121.53 17:35, 23 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Daylight/sunlight

"sunlight" changed to "daylight" as Reykjavik does not recieve four hours of sunlight in mid-winter. Rather it recieves four hours of daylight. You can still have daylight without sun. For example the length of day on the shortest day of the year (21st December) is 4 hours and 7 minutes. It would need to be sunny every day for the sunlight hours to be equal to daylight hours, which it most certainly isn't in Reykjavik, mid-winter!

Nick M 15th of April 2006

[edit] New category for the nordic/scandinavian capitals?

I would like to suggest a new category for the capital cities of Scandinavia/the Nordic, including Copenhagen, Helsinki, Oslo, Reykjavik and Stockholm. (I've posted this message on the talk page for each city.) Comments, anyone? /M.O (u) (t) 15:24, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Beginning of the article

I think that the very beginning of this article isn't good enough. For example, it says that the hours of sunlight Reykjavik receives differ greatly between summer and winter, but is that what you're looking for when you want information about Reykjavik itself. It sure is unique, but I'd say that this information should come later in the introduction, while other information, such as a summary of its history and information about its population should come in first. Although Reykjavik is a small city and might not look very interesting at first sight, it is the capital of Iceland and is very important as the financial and governmental centre of the country. What I'm trying to say is that I believe this introduction might be a little more comprehensive but still of course only a short summary for the rest of the article. - 85.220.74.213 22:28, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Pronunciation bug

Superscripted h applied from German version! They are right. This was missing, making me think the j is 100% silent but it is NOT. The extremely weak h must be in to represent the j; it must not be omitted. Perfectly audible on the sample. -andy 80.129.74.36 05:22, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

You are confusing the difference between [c] and [k] with the difference between [cʰ] and [c] (it is [c] and not [k] since it is spelled Reykjavík and not Reykavík but it is [c] and not [cʰ] because it in sourthern Iceland and so is "linmælt" (don't think there is an English word for this) Stefán 16:30, 7 March 2007 (UTC)