Walk into almost any souvenir shop in Iceland and you will find the same familiar symbols staring back at you: Thor’s hammer necklaces, rune sets, Viking amulets, and books on Norse religion.

The armed influencer and Trump buddy It’s been a big couple of weeks for Prime Minister Kristrún Frostadóttir. After a rough ...

The cover image was taken by professional driver Klemenz Geir Klemenzson on 18 June 2026. Klemenz was doing his job, which was to transfer luggage and equipment for hikers in the Icelandic highlands, ...

I think that the French should know about this, and I think that hopefully they will also get reprimanded when they get back ...

There was a time when we got frequent questions from tourists about how to be a better visitor. People wanted to know key ...

This issue’s cover story is about tourists who brought two rugged Land Rover Defenders and used them to deface Iceland’s ...

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As we noted in last issue’s feature, Vesturbær was Iceland’s first planned suburb, complete with a pool and a market with ...

We’ve got a list of our favourite 80 Icelandic releases of 2026 so far, and we’re doing our best to write them up. We’ll get ...

English words regularly make inroads into the Icelandic language, loan words like “basically” and even unwieldy (but useful) ...

During nearly 14 years of birding, I’ve heard conversations that would sound completely deranged to anyone passing by.

Then you’ll fly back into the wind, an Icelander now. You’ll walk up to the first coffee counter in Keflavík and say góðan ...