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2025 // Þetta reddast // Things will get better...
Encountered at the bend of a forest path last November near Borgarnes, this grinning ice spectre seems to taunt us as much as to threaten us, at the turn of...
2025 // Þetta reddast // Things will get better...
Encountered at the bend of a forest path last November near Borgarnes, this grinning ice spectre seems to taunt us as much as to threaten us, at the turn of...
A new government on Christmas Eve
Ongoing disagreements over foreign policy, asylum law, and energy strategy have brought down the unlikely coalition formed in 2021 by the Independence Party, the Progress Party (both conservatives), and the...
A new government on Christmas Eve
Ongoing disagreements over foreign policy, asylum law, and energy strategy have brought down the unlikely coalition formed in 2021 by the Independence Party, the Progress Party (both conservatives), and the...
In the running for Icelandic literary prizes
Iceland is no exception to the literary prize ritual, and the list of finalists was announced in mid-December. The now famous Jón Kalman Stefánsson appears in fiction, with Arnaldur Indriðason...
In the running for Icelandic literary prizes
Iceland is no exception to the literary prize ritual, and the list of finalists was announced in mid-December. The now famous Jón Kalman Stefánsson appears in fiction, with Arnaldur Indriðason...
Thetta reddast // Everything will be fine
"One of my great regrets is that we have not learned enough from the great crisis of 2008 ," she explains. " We live in a system largely inspired by...
Thetta reddast // Everything will be fine
"One of my great regrets is that we have not learned enough from the great crisis of 2008 ," she explains. " We live in a system largely inspired by...
Citizens since 1915
June 19 (not March 8) is Iceland's national women's rights day, commemorating the historic date of June 19, 1915. As early as 1882, widowed and self-employed Icelandic women were granted...
Citizens since 1915
June 19 (not March 8) is Iceland's national women's rights day, commemorating the historic date of June 19, 1915. As early as 1882, widowed and self-employed Icelandic women were granted...
The invisible world
When authorities map out new roads in Iceland, the areas where elves and trolls live are taken into account and avoided. Otherwise, serious problems can arise, as in 2015: repeated...
The invisible world
When authorities map out new roads in Iceland, the areas where elves and trolls live are taken into account and avoided. Otherwise, serious problems can arise, as in 2015: repeated...