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Word Of The Issue: Víti
Let’s say you’re playing a friendly game of football in Akranes and your buddy Þórgrímur wanders a little too close…
Icelandic MPs Filtering Out Emails About Vaping
Members of Iceland’s Parliament have received so many emails objecting to proposed vaping regulations that they have started to filter…
Word Of The Issue: Fjandakornið
The word of this issue is fjandakornið. Author Margaret Atwood once pointed out that when it comes to a culture’s…
Icelandic Banker Drinks Too Much, Talks Smack, Then Resigns
One of Arion Bank’s board members has opted to resign from his position in the wake of drinking too much…
Word Of The Issue: Gúrkutíð
Gúrkutíð is that magical time of year between June and August, or January and March, when nothing notable happens and…
Last Words: Anxiously Feminist
Writing these 345 words has taken me ages. See, I’m a feminist and writing about women’s issues and equality is…
Electric Dreams: Johnny Blaze & Hakki Brakes On Crappy Cars & Italo-Disco Influences
Johnny Blaze & Hakki Brakes’s music collaboration presents an absurd but intimate fantasy world. Their month-old release ‘Vroom Vroom Vroom’—their…
Best Of Reykjavík 2018: Best Indian
There has never been a more exciting time for the restaurant scene in Reykjavik. Thanks to burgeoning tourism, exposure, and…
Word Of The Issue: Ostaskeri
Travellers are often surprised by the peculiar ‘ostaskeri’ found in Icelandic Airbnb kitchens. Although it looks like a spatula, the…
On The Edge Of Morality: Börkur Sigþórsson On His New Film “Vargur”
After the international success of the Icelandic TV series “Trapped,” Icelandic director Börkur Sigþórsson is close to finishing his new…
Word Of The Issue: Teika
The Icelandic word of the issue is teika. This word is a classic example of vocabulary that falls out of…
Word Of The Issue: Geirvarta
Voted ‘ugliest word’ by Icelanders in 2013, ‘geirvarta’ is the Icelandic word for nipple. This compound, however, is much funnier…
Sónar Reykjavík Friday: Beats, Sexuality, Reggaetón, Jellyfish, Immense Bass
After the opening night off-venue parties, Sónar Reykjavík kicked off last night at Harpa will the full festival programme. Here’s…
Get Naked Every Day: ‘About Looking’ Explores Female Nudity In Art
by John Rogers
In 2017, three friends and artistic collaborators—Eva Ísleifs, Katrín Inga Jónsdóttir Hjördísardóttir and Rakel McMahon—met up at an apartment in…
Word Of The Issue: Að Kynda
Have you ever heard Icelanders’ favourite story about the word ‘kynda’? Tour guides in particular love to explain how it…
The Controversy Of Circumcision: Questions Of Body Integrity And Religious Persecution Clash
A recent piece of legislation seeks to ban male child circumcision in Iceland with a penalty of six years in…
Last Words: Iceland Loses A Wonda
The departure of Iceland’s favourite drag queen to England may just be the death of the queer culture renaissance in…
Word Of The Issue: Farfuglaheimili
If you were ever a tourist in your youth, chances are you’ve set foot in a “farfuglaheimili” at least once….
Speaking To The Dead
“Those the gods love the most, die the youngest. These are the words that come to mind when I think…
The Cocktail Crawl: Reykjavík’s Fanciest Happy Hours
by John Rogers
Few words look better together in the English language than “cocktail happy hour,” especially in Reykjavík, where liquor comes at…
Word of the Issue: Fössari
“Fössari” is an informal Icelandic word for Friday, which is more formally written “Föstudagur.”There should be nothing particularly controversial about…