Cheers to Icelandic National Beer Day
Beer Day is celebrated every year on March 1st in Iceland—a date that marked the end of a nationwide beer ban in 1989. You wouldn’t know it today, wit...
BBC Journalist Releases a Book About Iceland’s Most Famous Criminal Case
Simon Cox, a BBC journalist, has just released The Reykjavik Confessions a book about the notorious Guðmundur and Geirfinnur criminal case. This is re...
Glacier exhibition in Reykjavik – A milestone for the Icelandic Museum of Natural History
The Icelandic Museum of Natural History recently signed a contract with Perla Nordursins holding company about housing large-scale exhibitions about I...
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...
Artist Ragnar Kjartansson among the twelve awarded the Order of the Falcon on New Years day
President Guðni Th. Johannesson, awarded twelve individuals the Order of the Falcon in an annual ceremony at the presidential residency Bessastadir ye...
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...
Bomb on a camping spot
A bomb squad from the Icelandic Coast Guard (ICG) responded to a report about a bomb on the camping grounds in Borgarnes today,