Baltasar Kormakur to direct feature film “I Am Victor”
According to a report by Nordic Drama, SF Studios announced that Icelandic director Baltasar Kormakur is to direct the english language feature film &...
Magnitude 4.5 earthquake west of Reykjanes peninsula
An earthquake magnitude 4.5 rocked the south west of Iceland this morning at 3.40 am. The origin of the earthquake was 119 kilometres west southwest o...
Aleppo Kebab to open in Akureyri
Spring comes with a new addition to the culinary flora of Akureyri, a town of 18000 in northern Iceland. Some of the Syrian refugees settling in Akure...
The Golden Plover has arrived, indicating spring in Iceland
Iceland’s harbinger of summer, the golden plover, whose arrival to the country each spring is welcomed as a sure sign of winter’s passing – whatever t...
Cost of living in Iceland fourth highest worldwide
Iceland has the fourth highest cost of living in the world, Norway takes sixth place and “Bermuda takes the number one spot as the world’s most ...
Travel cancelations from Norway to Iceland
A Norwegian travel agency has received around 1500 cancelations of trips between Norway and Iceland scheduled next summer according to a RUV report. T...
Sami people of Norway get involved in controversial Dakota Access oil pipeline
The Sami people of Norway have, by way of their parliament in Norway, persuaded the country’s second largest pension fund KLP to withdraw its money fr...
Arabic sources describe the Vikings as beautiful but filthy
Icelandic historian Thorir Jonsson Hraundal has devoted his studies to observations in original Arab texts about the Vikings according to an article i...