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Fewer Icelanders Hold Valid Passports
The number of valid Icelandic passports stood at 345,388 at the beginning of December, reports RÚV, citing the data from the National Registry. This means that 91.1 percent of Icelandic citizens held a valid passport. At the same time last year, the…
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An Icelander Abroad: Andrea Kristinsdóttir Reflects On Her Successes So Far
New York-based Icelander Andrea Kristinsdóttir is an award-winning audio engineer, composer, sound designer. Currently she is working at Vox, the American media company famed for its explanatory journalism. Hired in May of this year, Andrea began as an audio engineer on their…
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Government To Bring Icelanders Home From Israel
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Þórdís Kolbrún Reykfjörð Gylfadóttir, announced on October 8 that a decision had been made to charter an Icelandair plane to pick up the Icelandic group in Tel Aviv due to the ongoing war in Israel and Palestine, reports…
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Ask an Expert: How the fuck do Icelanders Swear?
As much as it’s discouraged by our elders, curse words tend to sneak into the vocabularies of most people at some point in their lives. Icelanders are no exception. However, given that Icelandic is one of the older languages still spoken,…
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One Third Of Icelanders Reportedly Believe In Elves
A recent survey by Prósent found 31% of Icelanders believe in elves, while 57% said they do not. [su_pullquote]The new Reykjavík Grapevine print issue is out! Subscribe to it in our shop or join our High Five Club to get it in…
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Icelanders Nervous On Social Media Over Storm Forecast
Icelanders have been talking endlessly about the coming storm on Twitter. It’s all over Vísir, Rúv, and other news media outlets. As of 11:00 AM, the air is calm, peaceful, and quiet. Almost too quiet. Some are saying that the eerie silence…
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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 than its English counterpart. In fact, it literally means ‘wart with a dot’—which is neither accurate nor particularly appealing but surely amusing.…
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President Of Iceland Says Icelanders Should Stop Joking About Global Warming
During the World Ocean Summit held in Mexico last weekend, President of Iceland Guðni Th. Jóhannesson said it’s time for Icelanders to stop joking about global warming. Instead, he said, Icelanders need to start taking into account the serious consequences we’ll face…
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Kaleo Most-Googled Icelanders By A Long Shot
Pop group Kaleo were the most Googled Icelanders of 2017, and were searched almost three times more than runners-up Of Monsters And Men. Vísir reports that Kaleo was searched a total of 3,612,000 times this year, beating out stalwart favourites Of Monsters…
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Population of Iceland Increases to 344,000!
The number of people living in Iceland increased by 3,850 during the 2nd quarter of 2017, according to Statistics Iceland, making us a whopping 343,960! The number of males is 174,810 compared to 169,150 females, with a majority of 219,000 living in…
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Icelanders Love Sugar, Not So Keen On Fruits And Vegetables
Icelanders eat more sugary foods and fewer fruits and vegetables than other Nordic peoples. At the same time, they also eat more fish and drink less alcohol. RÚV reports that these results are a part of a pan-Nordic poll, the Icelandic version…
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Guðni Th. Jóhannesson Most Googled Icelander
No other Icelander came close to Iceland’s president in terms of sheer volume of Google searches originating in Iceland, and the results reflect Icelandic news stories that made headlines around the world. In terms of Icelanders that other Icelanders Googled the most,…
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More Icelanders Moving Away Than Moving Back Home
Not only are more Icelanders leaving the country than moving back to it; Statistics Iceland believes this trend will continue for at least the next 50 years. Kjarninn reports that, according to data from Statistics Iceland, about 250 more Icelanders moved away…
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Keep Calm, Icelanders: You Are Not Leading A Global Democratic Revolution
After a few minutes watching the speech of US political activist and Harvard Law professor Lawrence Lessig at the Nordic House earlier this month, I felt disappointed again. It is really surprising for me. I come from a country, Catalonia and Spain,…
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Kingdom Come: Inside Iceland’s Complicated Relationship With The Danes
Writing in ‘A Defence of Iceland’ in 1593, Arngrímur the Learned argued that “we are seriously to consider, what things, and how true, writers have reported of Iceland.” Made up of nearly thirty chapters, the document attempts to dispel foreign myths about…
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Talk Small To Me
Icelanders have a lot of special talents developed over generations of practice. Drinking, for example. Making gorgeous and functional sweaters. Taking fish out of raging, frozen Arctic waters. Chewing down rotten shark without gagging. But there is one skill that my adopted…
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People of Grímsey
Harpa Þórey & Gabríel, shopkeepers (pictured above) “We moved here in 2005, from Akureyri. The life is very different, and it’s quiet. My husband is from here. We have the fish market, and a couple of boats, this shop, and a hobby…
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People of Stykkishólmur
On our recent trip to the picturesque fishing town of Stykkishólmur on the Snæfellsnes peninsula, we met plenty of interesting locals going about their business. The town is, like much of Iceland, riding the wave of increased off-season tourism, which benefits everything…
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Don’t Ask Nanna: About Fat Icelanders
Hey Nanna, I’m not sure what I was expecting, and I probably seem like a dick mentioning it, but I was really shocked at how unhealthy Icelanders were when I visited last weekend. What’s with all the junk food? I expected a lot more…
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PHOTOS: It Begins… Dunkin’ Donuts Hits 101 Reykjavík!
Twenty two years after then-Prime Minister Davíð Oddsson took the first bite of the first McDonald’s burger served in Iceland, six years after McDonald’s left the country, announcing that franchises there had never paid off anyway, the finest U.S. fast food is…
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Icelanders Finding It Harder To Get A Table At Restaurants, Blame Tourists
Over half of Icelanders living in the capital area have found it harder to get tables at cafés and restaurants since the start of the tourism boom, reports RÚV. According to a new survey, 10% of those asked said that it was…
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Don’t Ask Nanna: What To Bring On Your Holiday To Iceland
Dear Nanna, I would like to visit from Canada. What items should I bring along that I can’t get in Iceland? Cheers, Travelocity Dear Travelocity, If at all possible bring lots of smoked lamb, a few bottles of cod fish liver oil, as…
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Statistics Iceland: 447.000 Icelanders By 2065
By 2065 there will be more Icelanders to love, 447.000 in total according to a new report from Statistics Iceland. The report includes national projections for the size and structure of the future total population of Iceland. The forecast is based on…