In this episode we sit down with Þorbjörg Þorvaldsdóttir, a linguist and seasoned municipal politician, to discuss the ...

If I’m lucky, I wish I could live 300 years just to do all the albums I want to do.

Last week most of the horse-loving people of Iceland and hundreds of people from abroad were headed in the same direction — ...

Verslunarmannahelgi falls on the first weekend of August. It is the biggest travel weekend of the Icelandic year.

At 24:00 on July 31, 2026, the Iceland Coast Guard and Special Forces boarded the protest boat Bandero, taking control of the ...

Yet local customs dictated that I take a slightly abbreviated summer vacation. This is written into my union contract, and our own publishers reminded me that despite our tricky schedule, we are ...

Some of you may be familiar with that piece of fan fiction known as Hamlet, Will Shakespeare’s rewrite of the classic Amlóða ...

A half-dozen dates in Ireland and Amsterdam, internationally famous Alok Vaid-Menon chose Reykjavík and the opening night of ...

Few phrases in the Icelandic tongue can be as breezily delivered as “þetta er gjöf en ekki gjald,” a phrase one could ...

The powerful and playful minimalism of Karin Sander makes artworks that exceed themselves, turning the museum into a ...

With respect for the bird and the residents, the strategy was to wait patiently for the sparrow to expose itself on the patio ...

It became known colloquially as the þjóðvegahátíðin, or “highway festival”, of 1994. On June 17 that year, tens of thousands rushed to celebrate 50 years of Icelandic independence at Þingvallahátíðin ...