After this weekend, it will be December. No judgment if you started feeling jolly a bit sooner, but we say that, now, it’s officially permissible to get into a wintery spirit. Tonight, beginning at 17 ...

Ever wanted to go very fast down a hill with two sticks attached to your feet? Here’s how! Say what you like about the Icelandic winter—and you can, because it won’t make the slightest bit of ...

“Stórurð” is a tricky word to translate. The “Stór” part is easy enough, meaning “big.” “Urð,” at first glance, seems to mean “earth”—but that’s the similar-sounding “jörð.” It turns out that “urð” is ...

The collapse of Iceland’s economy in late 2008 incited a tremendous amount of anger in the nation’s people. While the Special Investigation Commission sought to determine who and what were to blame ...

If you didn’t know, the age of digital streaming is soon to be over. Before you know it, the coolest people you can think of will all be collecting physical copies of cultural media. Even CDs are ...

Bram Stoker’s Dracula is a book that needs no introduction. The vampire’s cultural impact on the world is immense and the story has inspired writers and filmmakers for a century. And then there is, of ...

Some artists push boundaries. Others dissolve them entirely. For Björk Guðmundsdóttir, a concert is never just a concert, an album is never just an album. Her latest tour? Elaborated to such detail ...

Could Icelandic have become the lingua franca? Surely, it‘s a possibility everyone has mulled at some point, and the answer is that it very nearly came to pass. After generations of raiding, Vikings ...

Torfan is the kind of restaurant that wants to seduce both your palate and your inner romantic. It’s a vibe of classic Danish “historical hygge” — but with a kitchen that’s fixed on the present.

Join Dr Matthew Roby on a trip around the beautiful Snæfellsnes peninsula and he’ll tell you the tale of Bárðr, a troll who comes to Iceland with the other original settlers during the ninth century ...

When this magazine finds its way into the shops, cafés and cultural institutions of Reykjavík, it will have been a mere 46 days since the inauguration of President of the United States of America ...

At around 6:25 on January 16, 1995, a massive avalanche struck the fishing village of Súðavík in the Westfjords, claiming the lives of 14 people, including eight children aged between one and fourteen ...