Sheep on the road

Sheep print of an Icelandic sheep in the middle of the road, printed on archival quality matt paper. This animal print is available in two sizes: 50x70 and 30x40 (cm).

When you travel around Iceland in the summer, you can sometimes have problems with meeting Icelanders, but definitely not sheep. It’s sheep that are the most numerous inhabitants of the island – there are three times more sheep than people. Thus, Iceland has one of the largest sheep population densities in the world.

One of the biggest sheep's secrets is appearing in the middle of the roads despite having large expanses of meadows and mountains at their disposal. The situation recurs very often, and the pattern usually looks the same. Sheep surprised by the presence of a car on the road, come to a dead stop and freeze for a long time. Only the horn wakes them up from strange lethargy, but sometimes even honking a few times doesn’t help.

The meeting with the sheep captured in the photo took quite a while. The sheep didn’t pay any attention to all the cars and left the road only after around ten minutes, unable to decide which direction to go for a further stroll.