Big exception - Clue

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Would bring them good fortune on the journey

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I'm not sure I understand the clue or the title. 

Anyone found this by identifying what this was from the photo? Well done. 

let's answer this one:

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coordinates: 63.5952906 -18.4631118

Laufskálavarða, Iceland

i think it belongs to the Mýrdalssandur outwash plain

explanations about the title "Big Exception" and the clue "Would bring them good fortune on the journey" here

ok it's in german, let's google-translate it:

Even before we flew to Iceland, we read it in our travel information: Don't build cairns when you're in Iceland! There are also good reasons why Icelanders don't want tourists to erect cairns. But we found a place on our trip where the small stone towers found their refuge on Iceland: Laufskálavarða.

On our drive from Vík í Mýrdal to the Skaftafell National Park, we got an impression of the deserted expanse of the Icelandic landscape for the first time. Iceland is generally sparsely populated, but east of Vík it gets really empty. The ring road now crosses the Mýrdalssandur and the Skeiðarársandur. In between there is Kirkjubæjarklaustur, the only place where you can visit the famous Kirkjugólf, the ground made of hexagonal basalt stones.

Almost exactly halfway between Vík í Mýrdal and Kirkjubæjarklaustur there is a car park on the ring road, immediately after the junction with road 209 to Hrifunes. We stopped in this parking lot by chance to take a closer look at the wide, flat landscape of the Sander. And ended up exactly at Laufskálavarða.

Why Icelanders don't like cairns

One reads again and again that one shouldn't build cairns in Iceland. The Icelanders assume that everything in the landscape has its place, which is why one should change as little as possible. And subsequent visitors should also have the same experience of nature as you.

In earlier times in particular, large piles of stones were used as waypoints. We saw some of these large stone towers in the area east of Mývatn. And last but not least, colorful lichens and mosses also form on the stones, which could be damaged if the stones were repositioned. With Iceland's harsh climate, plants that have taken decades to grow can be quickly destroyed.

In addition, cairns appear to multiply actively. As soon as two of them are together somewhere, they start a family and soon more and more of them are standing in the landscape.

For all of these reasons, Icelanders also often destroy cairns when they see them. But there is one exception, which of course includes a story.

The period from 870 to around 930 is considered to be the time of the land conquest, in which settlers from Norway settled the previously uninhabited island of Iceland. On the eastern edge of Mýrdalssandur, settlers built the Laufskógar estate, which must have been of considerable size. Its size was described as “24 doors”, whatever that means.

What the settlers could not know: Below the ice cap of the Mýrdalsjökull glacier north of Laufskógar lies the Katla volcano. Katla is still one of the most active volcanoes in Iceland today. In 894 it broke out for the first time since the beginning of the conquest and destroyed the Laufskógar estate.
The tradition of the Laufskálavarða cairns

Since then, the Laufskálavarda lava hill has been located on the site of the former manor, on which some bizarrely shaped lava rocks stand. A tradition has developed here over time. Every traveler who comes by the site for the first time should reach a cairn in order to get luck for the further journey.

Feb 19, 2021 6:38:13 GMT krenek said:

let's answer this one:

SPOILER: Click to show

coordinates: 63.5952906 -18.4631118

Laufskálavarða, Iceland

i think it belongs to the Mýrdalssandur outwash plain

explanations about the title "Big Exception" and the clue "Would bring them good fortune on the journey" here

ok it's in german, let's google-translate it:

Even before we flew to Iceland, we read it in our travel information: Don't build cairns when you're in Iceland! There are also good reasons why Icelanders don't want tourists to erect cairns. But we found a place on our trip where the small stone towers found their refuge on Iceland: Laufskálavarða.

On our drive from Vík í Mýrdal to the Skaftafell National Park, we got an impression of the deserted expanse of the Icelandic landscape for the first time. Iceland is generally sparsely populated, but east of Vík it gets really empty. The ring road now crosses the Mýrdalssandur and the Skeiðarársandur. In between there is Kirkjubæjarklaustur, the only place where you can visit the famous Kirkjugólf, the ground made of hexagonal basalt stones.

Almost exactly halfway between Vík í Mýrdal and Kirkjubæjarklaustur there is a car park on the ring road, immediately after the junction with road 209 to Hrifunes. We stopped in this parking lot by chance to take a closer look at the wide, flat landscape of the Sander. And ended up exactly at Laufskálavarða.

Why Icelanders don't like cairns

One reads again and again that one shouldn't build cairns in Iceland. The Icelanders assume that everything in the landscape has its place, which is why one should change as little as possible. And subsequent visitors should also have the same experience of nature as you.

In earlier times in particular, large piles of stones were used as waypoints. We saw some of these large stone towers in the area east of Mývatn. And last but not least, colorful lichens and mosses also form on the stones, which could be damaged if the stones were repositioned. With Iceland's harsh climate, plants that have taken decades to grow can be quickly destroyed.

In addition, cairns appear to multiply actively. As soon as two of them are together somewhere, they start a family and soon more and more of them are standing in the landscape.

For all of these reasons, Icelanders also often destroy cairns when they see them. But there is one exception, which of course includes a story.

The period from 870 to around 930 is considered to be the time of the land conquest, in which settlers from Norway settled the previously uninhabited island of Iceland. On the eastern edge of Mýrdalssandur, settlers built the Laufskógar estate, which must have been of considerable size. Its size was described as “24 doors”, whatever that means.

What the settlers could not know: Below the ice cap of the Mýrdalsjökull glacier north of Laufskógar lies the Katla volcano. Katla is still one of the most active volcanoes in Iceland today. In 894 it broke out for the first time since the beginning of the conquest and destroyed the Laufskógar estate.
The tradition of the Laufskálavarða cairns

Since then, the Laufskálavarda lava hill has been located on the site of the former manor, on which some bizarrely shaped lava rocks stand. A tradition has developed here over time. Every traveler who comes by the site for the first time should reach a cairn in order to get luck for the further journey.

tl;dr :

Big exception because only place in the country where you're allowed to make cairns. Lucky because tradition saying if a traveler reaches for a cairn there it will bring him luck.