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...
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Whispering Iceland – Icelandic landscape featured in multiply awarded time-lapse (Video)
Greek photographer Nick Kontostavlakis won Best Time-Laps award at the Los Angeles Independent Film Festival Awards in January with the stunning time-...
& other stories collaborate with Shoplifter (the artist)
New York-based Icelandic artist Hrafnhildur Arnardottir a.k.a. Shoplifter is the author of the & Other Stories “new co-lab contemporary art embrac...
Sonar Reykjavik 2017 starts today with an impressive lineup
Sonar is a music festival created in 1994, with the aim of pioneering unique format and content in a cultural event, combining a playful nature, the a...
The lost Icelandic version of Dracula – A literary discovery and potential TV series from Hollywood
Icelandic film producer Sigurjon Sighvatsson, based in Hollywood California, is preparing a TV series based on an Icelandic book about Count Dracula: ...
Rape victim and rapist reconcile, co-author a book and give talks (Video)
In 1996, Thordis Elva Thorvaldsdottir shared a teenage romance with Tom Stranger, an exchange student from Australia. After a school dance, Tom raped ...
Þorri, with fermented shark and cured testicles
According to the Old Norse Calendar Iceland has entered the month of Þorri, the high winter month when Icelanders feast on traditional delicacies such...
Artist salary in 2017 – 1606 artist applied, 391 received
The annual artist salary was made public yesterday. Each fall artists in Iceland sit down and go over the year a head of them, make a plan for the yea...