Author: Anna Andersen
ABC In Iceland To Film Réttir
US television network ABC was in Iceland last weekend filming ‘réttir’, the annual sheep round-up. RÚV interviewed the ABC reporter,…
RIFF Opens With Sigur Rós Film ‘Inni’
Sigur Rós’ film ‘Inni’ will kick off this year’s Reykjavík International Film Festival, which takes over theatres in Reykjavík from…
Iceland Had Halldór Laxness Blacklisted In The USA
Documentary filmmakers have discovered that Former Prime Minister Bjarni Benediktsson asked the US Ambassador to Iceland to ruin Nobel Prize…
Strætó Celebrates Family Day
Reykjavík’s public bus company Strætó is celebrating Family Day on Saturday afternoon with a diverse programme of family friendly activities…
Styrmir: MPs Need Etiquette Course
Former Morgunblaðið editor Styrmir Gunnarsson urges Alþingi’s Presidential Committee to create a mandatory etiquette course for MPs in light of…
Customs Is Cracking Down
Bring up the Directorate of Customs in Iceland and you’re liable to unleash a host of emotions ranging from frustration…
Reykjavík Remains Iceland’s Only City
A proposal to change the standing of Kópavogur from a town to a city was voted down at a town…
Former Landsbanki Shareholders To Sue Björgólfur
More than two hundred former Landsbanki shareholders have signed a class action suit against the bank’s former majority owner Björgólfur…
Iceland Considers Founding State Oil Company
The Ministry of Industry is looking into the idea of founding a state oil company for the purposes of oil…
Prime Minister Did Not Put In Earplugs
DV reported yesterday that Prime Minister Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir put in earplugs when Independence Party Chair Bjarni Benediktsson began speaking during…
Canadians To Retrace Viking Route Back To Iceland
Descendants of Jóhann Elíasson Straumfjörð, who sailed from Iceland to Canada in 1874 with hundreds of Icelanders that went on…
Reykjavík Energy Creates Earthquakes
The Icelandic Met Office recorded three hundred earthquakes last night from the Hellisheiði area, which turned out to be the…
Kárahnjúkar Impact Report To Be Investigated
Minister for the Environment Svandís Svavarsdóttir says she is going to launch a thorough investigation into The Ministry’s conclusions in…
Icelanders Buying New Cars Again
Fifty five percent more cars were registered in Iceland during the first eight months of the year compared to the…
Naming Committee Approves New Names
The Icelandic Naming Committee announced a new set of approved names this morning. Males can now be called Þinur (meaning…
Katla Continues To Quake
Roughly twenty earthquakes were detected last night from Mýrdalsjökull glacier where the volcano Katla resides. The largest one measured 2,7…
Picking Wild Berries In Iceland
Like many Icelanders, Guðrún Helga Sigurðardóttir was brought up picking berries. The activity of going out to the country to…
A BOOM AND A BUST?
Iceland too had its housing boom. As you may observe in the accompanying graph, housing prices were fairly stable between…
The Iceland Academy of the Arts
Iceland Academy of the Arts (Listaháskóli Íslands) was founded in 1999 and it’s the only university in Iceland dedicated to…
A Deconstruction Of “Iceland’s On-going Revolution”
Last night, ‘Shock Doctrine’ author Naomi Klein tweeted: “#Iceland is proving that it is possible to resist the Shock Doctrine,…
THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE ORDER OF THE FALCON
You could say that the Order of the Falcon is to Iceland what the Purple Heart is to The United…
Breaking My Spell
A performance endurance pieceMichelle L. Morby has come all the way from San Francisco to Reykjavík to participate in the…
STATUES OF THE FUTURE?
We asked a handful of clever people to think about a statue of the future. Specifically, we asked, “which person,…
Who Are Our Übermenschen?
It wasn’t until two weeks ago when we decided to print a walking tour of some of Einar Jónsson’s statues…
Oodles Of Fun At The Park
Looking for something exciting to do on a Tuesday, Thursday or Sunday afternoon? If games like Kubb, Frisbee, Frisbee Golf…