Videy

This guide to Videy in Reykjavik's harbor traces the island back to a Pleistocene volcano whose collapsed crater now lies mostly drowned beneath the bay, with today's island sitting near its center. It follows how bog and meadow softened over the basalt, and how Augustinian monks and later a stone house tried to make a permanent home here before the last residents left in nineteen forty-three. You'll hear about the eider ducks and other seabirds that nest by the thousands along the old crater's rim. Listen for the low, rolling call of the eider drake as you walk.