I first heard about Derek Terell Allen after my first ever Icelandic class at The Tin Can Factory, one of the language schools in Reykjavík. An American teaching Icelandic? Really? Given the ...
Where to you see yourself in five years? If you’re of the same mind as 4% of Icelanders, you see yourself getting the hell out of Iceland. The polling conducted by Prósent on Icelanders’ attitude to ...
The Icelandic Met Office has announced an uncertainty phase in North Iceland and the Westfjords due to avalanche risk. The notice was posted on Thursday, March 21, with similar conditions expected on ...
The eruption the began between Hagafell and Stóra Skógfell on March 16 is ongoing, though the volume of lava being expelled has slowed since it first began. The Icelandic Meteorological Office reports ...
It may come as a surprise to some, but Iceland is an increasingly multicultural country. Roughly 18% of the nation is now made up of immigrants, their diversity adding welcome life and colour to the ...
Húgó, a brave dog from Akureyri, rescued a fellow pup last week by donating 400 ml of blood, reports mbl.is. Erin, a black Labrador, was suffering from a severe blood shortage following surgery and ...
Many writers start writing as a side pursuit, with most of them trying to quit their day jobs as soon as their writing career takes off. Yrsa Sigurðardóttir, who initially emerged as a children’s ...
The eruption that began on the evening of March 16 is still going at a sustained strength. The eruption, which began as a three kilometre fissure between Hagafell and Stóra Skógfell, has consolidated ...
Many writers start writing as a side pursuit, with most of them trying to quit their day jobs as soon as their writing career takes off. Yrsa Sigurðardóttir, who initially emerged as a children’s ...
A man was stopped upon arrival in Iceland on January 9 and was found to have two kilograms of cocaine and 12 kilograms of marijuana in his suitcase. RÚV reports that his baggage contained only drugs, ...
Linguist and Háskóli professor Eiríkur Rögnvaldsson told Rás 2’s morning radio program that Icelanders need to shift their mindset about immigrants speaking English in shops and other customer-facing ...
As Icelandic voters prepare for the upcoming 2024 presidential elections on June 1, an unconventional new candidate has entered the race: Snæfellsjökull. Yes, it’s a glacier. According to a press ...