Introducing the Human Name Committee
If you follow Icelandic news you will once in a while come across reports of names declined or names approved by what is known as Mannanafnanefnd, a j...
Museum Night – Winter Festival Highlight
Tonight is the annual Museum Night in Reykjavík and the city’s museums stay open late, many hosting special events, and most offering free entry from ...
Avalanche Risk and Storm Still Going Strong
UPDATE: An avalanche did fall on the village of Patreksfjörður, brushing by the evacuated homes, 40 meters west of the evacuated area. No one was harm...
Storm Warning – Better not Travel
There is no travel weather out there today so if you had a trip planned, better cancel or postpone. If you must travel please pay close attention to V...
Rutabaga farmers by day, artists by night
Musicians Svavar Pétur Eysteinsson and Berglind Häsler promptly left Reykjavík in the rearview mirror in 2014 and moved to the country, they got a far...
Syrian Refugees to Iceland – A Documentary
Árni Gunnarsson, formerly fronting the Icelandic refugee-committee (Flóttamannaráð), founded in 1995, has followed some of the refugee´s voyage with a...
Icelandic youngsters in prison in Brazil
A young Icelandic couple traveling in Brazil has been imprisoned in Fortaleza in Brazil and now awaits trial. The couple was found carrying cocaine in...
Snowrollers – a Weather Phenomena
In the midst of all the snow in Iceland right now might be appropriate to mention the Snowrollers, a rather odd weather phenomena. Occasionally after ...