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- it's something out there. we don't know what it is. it could be elves. it could be ghosts. it could be nothing, so it's difficult to say. - clearly, this is a place with unlimited imagination. but the mind-blowing thing is iceland, thanks to centuries of only focusing on survival, is inventing much of its culture now. and that's where the young folks come in. [mellow music] ♪ ♪♪ five years ago, fonn and her cousins, eir and asa, formed the gothic rock trio ateria, combining their training in classical music with lyrics about everyone's favorite source of omega-3 fatty acids-- cod liver...

But i knew it would just work out. and now i have a job. so...it just works out. - i'm struggling to buy into all of this because i am wired to believe that the worst is always lurking around the corner. - why do i think the world thinks iceland is one of the happiest-- - oh, god. [laughs] that's a heavy question. i can imagine that people think that we are very happy here, which we are, i assume. - it's all about good marketing, i think. - we just make our own happiness. - magic mushrooms... [chuckling] definitely do their part. - but icelanders have no hallucinations of grandeur. in a countr...

Than waking up at the crack of dawn, dipping into these 40-something-degree arctic waters with a group of insane icelandic women, followed by a near total freeze of my netherlands? [bluesy guitar music] ♪ ♪♪ - [speaking icelandic] - hello! - whoo! hi! - all right, let's do this! - whoo-hoo! - good to see you. all right! - ohh... oh ha ha... - how you feeling? - [whimpering] uh, i don't want to be this cold. i want to drink hot chocolate, and, um... - i feel you, yeah. - i-i'm scared. - okay. - okay. okay. - it's okay. - your only goal now is to go in this ocean and surrender. but if you ...

Icelanders love their nature. around here, winter means being locked inside for months on end, so they learned not to take their surroundings for granted. look how beautiful this is. - i wanna say you get used to it, but you don't. [upbeat jazzy music] this fjord, we're in a pretty massive fjord. it's called hvalfjordur, or whale fjord. - you steer for a second. - right. so this is where we're going, huh? - yes. - mountains up ahead. this is with darri driving. there's his hand. - ha. - there's his meaty little hand. - rainn, are you coming back? you gonna take the wheel at some point? - um......

- and icelanders have been raising sheep for... - since we got here. - yeah. - the sheep has literally kept us alive through the centuries. through the cold winters, they provided both meat and wool. - that's what strikes me as an american, coming over here, where, yes, we have traditions that go back, you know, 150 years or something like that. but i'm not connected, either to my land or my property or to my traditions in the same way. - well, i feel, firstly, just lucky that somehow my branch of the family ended up here. - it's amazing coming here because i just grew up in reykjavík, and it...