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  • Chris Foster’s ‘Hadelin’: English Folk Hits Reykjavík

    Chris Foster’s ‘Hadelin’: English Folk Hits Reykjavík

    English folk ballads don’t get much attention these days on a musical stage saturated with grunge-hip-techno-disco-pop. But here to give them the attention they deserve is Chris Foster, a Somerset native who has lived in Reykjavík since 2004. Chris’s work preserving and…

  • The Brits Are Coming! Again!

    The Brits Are Coming! Again!

    The British Occupation that started in 1940 has certainly been dealt with a lot in Icelandic culture, as we at the Grapevine have previously discussed. Just this year, one of Iceland’s most popular crime fiction writers, Arnaldur Indriðason, set his latest novel…