One should think that Icelandic politics would be a fertile ground for comedy, especially because the politicians are surreal due to a combination of the isolation of the country and the peculiarity of the nation itself, a fact that becomes painfully clear when Flugleiðir, not Icelandair, decide to advertise the country as nation of elf believers. Mind you not cool elves, but dorky ones. I saw Huldufólk 102 at Raindance – and sometimes I wanted to laugh, sometimes I had to cringe; yet I never cringe as much as when I hear two politicians speak: Sigmundur Davíð and Bjarn Ben.
Viking is not the first word I think of when I think of Sigmundur Davíð, however this is the first image that pops to mind:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pillsbury_Doughboy
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