Artists’ Christmas bazars popping up all over Reykjavik
A new (old) trend has developed in recent years in the city of Reykjavik as artists come together and make big salon exhibitions before Christmas with...
Visitors make note of Icelandic manners
Manners of Icelanders don’t go unnoticed with rising numbers of foreign visitors. Icelanders apparently eat very fast, draw in air through the nose wi...
PISA global education survey shows Icelandic education lacking
Icelandic students have never measured poorer in all three areas of OECD’s PISA, global education survey. The 2015 survey found Iceland to be notably ...
Iceland’s first lady gives Icelandic lessons to a Canadian audience
Eliza Reid, Iceland’s first lady visited her native Canada recently where she made an appearance on Toronto’s City TV morning show. She casually spoke...
Video – Vigdis Finnbogadottir and Of Monsters and Men singer Nanna Bryndis Hilmarsdottir have a conversation about equal rights
As reported, on 24 October in 1975 the women of Iceland took a stand against lower pay and the low value placed on their work contribution in society ...
Women´s day off! Women assemble at Austurvollur today
Women are encouraged to leave their place of work at 2:38 pm today, 24 October, a day known in Iceland as Women´s Day Off [Kvennafrídagurinn] There wi...
Women talk, men talk – Rape culture in Iceland
There have been loud voices in Icelandic society of late, calling for a change in the rhetoric regarding sexual harassment, abuse and rape. Women in m...
Eiderdown, a generation of warmth unique to Iceland
In the artic skirts of Iceland, there exists a substance like no other. Known for centuries as natures greatest insulator it has been used by common I...