Walking on or Staying? (North Iceland IX)

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Dimmuborgir (Dark Castles) is a lava field near the much more mellow Mývatn area.

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Allegedly, here it is where Satan landed after his fall (or did he leave deliberately?).

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What makes the place spooky are not so much the bizarre rock formations but rather the cracks one can see everywhere: Are they just signs of decay, or an indication of growth and an immanent emergence of something else?

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At least, the holes and tunnels seem to always promise a way out.

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But what about those who got stuck and now have to look back at us, frozen in rock for millennia?

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