It was the summer of 2003 and I, then editor of Grapevine, was walking through town with 58-year-old Megas, best known as ...

Unsurprisingly the first generation living on the gravel (Reykjavík) is doing badly, it freaks out over all their options and then sinks to the bottom of misery.

Walk into almost any souvenir shop in Iceland and you will find the same familiar symbols staring back at you: Thor’s hammer ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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) ...

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