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Samtökin ’78 Receive A Surge Of Requests From Americans
Iceland’s national queer association Samtökin ’78 have received a surge of requests from American queer people since Donald Trump was elected president, asking for information on how to relocate to Iceland. Many think their safety is threatened due to the Trump administration’s…
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Vikings Arrived To The Americas Before Columbus
Recent analysis of small pieces of wood from timber-framed buildings in Newfoundland confirms that Vikings arrived in the North America at least 471 years before Christopher Columbus. The Guardian reports that the new type of dating technique used a solar storm from…
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RVK Newscast #103: New Cold War Meeting In Iceland And COVID At Eurovision
Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergei Lavrov will meet American Secretary of State Anthony Blinken in Iceland on May 20th, for a kind of New Cold War summit. At least 22% of people in Iceland have now been vaccinated, and 28% of…
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Americans In Iceland Concerned Over Delayed Postal Votes
Delays in the Icelandic and U.S. Postal Service due to COVID alongside President Trump’s campaign against the USPS is making Americans living in Iceland anxious that their votes in next month’s election won’t get counted, Vísir reports. The US Presidential and congressional…
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The Icelandic Rap Scene Is “Dead”, And Its Women Are Ignored
A recent article published on the RUV website, has been making waves by announcing the death of Icelandic rap music. The article, written by Davíð Roach Gunnarsson, slammed the rap scene, saying that, although a lot of good music was still being…
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Seven Spiders Found In American Grapes In Iceland Since Last November
According to a press statement from the Icelandic Institute of Natural History, seven spiders of different species not native to Iceland have been found in American grapes since late November. The statement refers to a story from last month, when a suspected…
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Making Of An Artist: Old School Techno And Kurt Vonnegut With Andri Snær Magnason
Andri Snær Magnason is one of Iceland’s best known writers. His books and plays have been published or performed in over 30 countries; his book about Icelandic nature, ‘Dreamland,’ had profound impact on the Icelandic nation. Some say that his novel ‘LoveStar’…
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Americans In Iceland To Take Part In “March For Our Lives” Tomorrow
Americans living in Iceland have organised their own “March For Our Lives” against gun violence in the US, and it will kick off tomorrow afternoon. March For Our Lives, while originating in the US in the wake of the Stoneman Douglas High…
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“Iceland Is The Size of Corpus Christi, Texas, How Can The US Not Figure This Out?”
“Iceland Is the same Size as Corpus Christi, Texas, or Anaheim, California. They can figure it out. If the United States can’t figure it out, then no business being involved. Because if Iceland … an area that small as Corpus Christi, Texas.…
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Blast from the Past: Boycotting the Girls of Siglufjörður
This March 19 marked the 75th anniversary of the Great Boycott of Siglufjörður women, by the men of said town. This was during the British occupation, you see, and there was a lot of fraternisation. This was not always taken well by…
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Iceland Jumps On “America First [X] Second” Bandwagon
Never to be outdone by other countries, Iceland has also taken part in the recent craze of “America First [X] Second” videos currently sweeping Europe and beyond. These videos more often than not serve a dual purpose: making fun of Donald Trump’s…
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“Home Of Leifur Eiríksson” Mourns Beginning Of Trump Presidency
Today, Donald J. Trump officially becomes the 45th President of the United States of America. The entire world is aware of this occasion, and Iceland is no exception; in fact, the birthplace of the first European to land in America has a…
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Why Trump Scares Us Foreigners
The United States and its president are often called The Leader Of The Free World. American politics affect us all. As a magazine, The Reykjavík Grapevine does not take political stands, but we publish shows some leanings, that mostly have to do…
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Icelandic Politicians With Mixed Reactions To Trump Victory
Numerous Icelandic politicians have chimed in on the results of last night’s US presidential election, and their feelings are far from unanimous. Iceland’s Prime Minister, Sigurður Ingi Jóhannsson, told RÚV that he has already sent his congratulations to President Trump, and that…
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Now What?
The world woke up this morning to the news that Donald J. Trump is the new President of the United States, that both houses of Congress are now Republican majorities, and that the vacant seat on the Supreme Court will be filled…
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American Tourists To Outnumber Iceland’s Population
It is expected that, at the end of this year, the number of American tourists who have visited Iceland in 2016 will grow beyond 332,000 people. This will mark the first time in history that these friendly western visitors in a span of a year will have…
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New U.S Ambassador To Iceland Practices Icelandic
The new U.S Ambassador to Iceland, Robert C. Barber, has published a video explaining a little bit about himself in anticipation of his arrival to Iceland, reports RÚV. Barber will formally take over his duties in Iceland on January 28 and explains…
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Expecting Couple Struggle With Immigration Bureaucracy
An Icelandic man’s pregnant American wife has still not received a verdict on her Icelandic residence permit application even though she applied for one in the fall of last year, reports DV. Jessica Jacobs has lived in Iceland since 2012. Initially she moved to…
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America Daze
For the last few years, visitors to the Icelandic grocery chain Hagkaup have been met by a trio of unusually high profile greeters. Surrounded by enough American flags to trick out a NASCAR rally on the 4th of July, Elvis, John Wayne,…
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Reykjavík: The Launder-Less City
While my experience in Reykjavík for the last three months has been mostly positive, one part about the city makes living here tiresome at times. It’s what many likely consider a banal task of daily life as a semi-hygienic human: doing the…