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Best Of Iceland Awards: North
Welcome to Grapevine’s Best Of Iceland—a guide to the best hikes, hotels, must see spots, eateries, road trips, tours, shops…
Best Of Iceland Awards: West
Welcome to Grapevine’s Best Of Iceland—a guide to the best hikes, hotels, must see spots, eateries, road trips, tours, shops…
Best Of Iceland Awards: East
Welcome to Grapevine’s Best Of Iceland—a guide to the best hikes, hotels, must see spots, eateries, road trips, tours, shops…
Sick Sea Eagle Recovering Well
A sea eagle found weeks ago has been recuperating at Reykjavík’s zoo, and is well on the road to recovery….
Iceland In Icons: An Ingenious Way To Learn A Mad Language
Notoriously, our barbaric ancient language is one of the most difficult to learn in the world. Therefore, Icelanders are routinely…
The Subterranean Pioneers of Icelandic Hip Hop
Today, Icelandic rap is primarily done in the mother tongue and the genres biggest hits since the turn of the…
“Make Your Own Slave” Exercise In Icelandic Primary School Textbook
An Icelandic textbook for primary school children includes an exercise prompting kids to make their own slaves, and not all…
Time Capsule: Austurvöllur Square
Austurvöllur Square has been a public gathering space for Icelanders since the 1930s. Though the Square is now home to…
Anna Rún Tryggvadóttir: Everything Is In Motion, Nothing Is Solid
Each artist must determine the moment when a new piece of art feels finished and ready to be revealed to…
Talks Of Building Luxury Hotel At Lake Thingvallavatn Begin Again
Discussions about building a new luxury hotel in the area of Skálabrekka, adjacent to the Þingvellir National Park, have begun…
Icelandic Goats: Meet and Greet This Wednesday
by Jessica Peng
By now you have probably already seen some Icelandic sheep roaming around the countryside, but have you seen any Icelandic…
On This Day In 1918, “The Kingdom Of Iceland” Was Born
On this day back in 1918, Iceland took an important step towards being a fully independent republic, and is today…
Family Deported From Iceland With Almost No Warning
An asylum seeker family, including a pregnant mother in need of medical care and a 18-month-old boy, were suddenly deported…
Part 2: Meet The Foreigners Learning Icelandic
Do you want to learn Icelandic? Well, today is the Day of the Icelandic Tongue, where we honour this unique…
Iceland’s First Woman PM Releases Biography
Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir, who rose to international fame as Iceland’s first woman Prime Minister, has released a tell-all biography about her…
Gunnarsson & Armand On Nazis, 9/11 And Icelandic Society
I meet authors Valur Gunnarsson and Halldór Armand Ásgeirsson at Fridarhús (Peace House), “the home of the Campaign against militarism,”…
Making Of An Artist: Persian Carpets And Frost Activities With Þórdís Erla
Þórdís Erla Zoëga is a visual artist based in Iceland. She received her BFA degree from the Audio Visual department…
Inside Small-Town Icelandic Life In ‘690 Vopnafjörður’
No frills and bare bones, ‘690 Vopnafjörður’ documents everyday life in a small fishing village in Iceland. Director Karna Sigurðardóttir and cinematographer Sebastian Ziegler…
The Grotesque Powers Of Human Nature: Egill Sæbjörnsson’s Trolls
As I sit in the peacock-blue interiors of i8 Gallery, a turquoise espresso cup twinkles before my eyes like a…
Airwaves Friday Super Review, Pt. 2: The Real Shit
While one half of our review team checked out gothic gloom, cheesy rap, and party explosions, the other half scoured…
Húsavík Explorers Festival 2017: Through Fire And Ice
by Charley Ward
I’m sat in an intimate audience of approximately 20 to 30 people centred around a makeshift stage in Húsavík, listening…