Sigur Rós on ‘Route One’ with a slow musical event (video)
Throughout 24 hours between the 20th and the 21st of June, the longest day in Iceland with 24 hour sunlight, Icelandic band Sigur Rós made an unpreced...
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Salmon season is kicking off in Iceland
The salmon season is kicking of in the rivers of Iceland and eager anglers are taking to the rivers. The river Blanda in the north of Iceand seems to ...
Former prime minister publicly speaks for the first time since his resignation
Iceland’s former prime minster Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson spoke in public for the first time today after he famously resigned office in early ...
Iceland’s new limitations on holiday rentals
There is a newly proposed legislation in Iceland intended to limit the number of people offering their houses up for holiday rentals on Airbnb.
Comedian composes a „losers symphony“ aimed to motivate the Norwegian football team
Norwegian comedian and football nerd Håvard Lilleheie has composed a symphony that will not be pleasant to listen to and has threatened to release it ...
SDA and Progressives not far from being wiped out from parliament
The Social Democratic Alliance is just about to be wiped out of parliament, according to a new poll by 365 media. The party has only six percent suppo...
New documentary on Icelandic whaling released
Iceland has a love hate relationship with whaling, some are for it and want to have the meat available in store and others are against it largely citi...
Old prison in Reykjavik center gets a new role
The old penalty house on Skólavörðustígur, in the heart of Reykjavik is going to get a new role in the near future. It is the oldest prison in Iceland...