Sara Bjarney Ólafsdóttir and her partner got a very unwelcome guest in their home last night, when a huge rat had come up into their bed, reports Vísir. “My partner just woke me in the night, and told ...

This issue, we reached out to some friends of the Grapevine to ask a simple question: where is Icelandic culture in 2025? Here are some of the responses.

Make money fast in true Icelandic fashion Money is a lot of things. Sometimes it’s no object. More often it is. It makes the world go round and it’s also the sinews of war, whatever that means. But ...

A rookie’s guide to driving around Iceland The introduction of the automobile changed Iceland forever: from a near-untraversable wilderness into ...

Where to go if you urgently need an heirloom tomato, and Bónus has none Coming from a culture where a vegetable market is never more than a few streets away — where summers burst with fresh produce ...

The City of Reykjavík and the owners of Götubiti ehf. have signed an agreement for the operation of Kolaportið for the next five years, reports RÚV. The market’s operation has been uncertain since the ...

The Icelandic króna is at one of its strongest levels in history, making Iceland considerably more expensive than Norway and raising concerns about the competitiveness of the country’s export sectors, ...

Paganism’s rise Paganism, within a modern context, can be roughly defined as any number of spiritual practices that derive its mythologies, deities, ethics and practices from the non-Christian, ...

People have been seen walking on both new and recent lava, which is extremely dangerous. The police and the Icelandic Met Office are warning people not to walk on the lava near the Sundhnúkur crater ...

The septic tank in Vík í Mýrdal can no longer handle the sheer number of tourists, sometimes resulting in a bad smell in the town, reports Vísir. In addition, the local residents occasionally have to ...

We’ve already introduced you to Innipúkinn, Reykjavík’s festival for indoor-loving demons. But if you’re looking for something more outdoorsy, more punk, more drunk, or more family-friendly, we’ve got ...

Fresh off of releasing their respective albums earlier this year, veteran Birnir and Icelandic hip-hop’s hottest new commodity Alaska1867 just released a collaboration featuring a bouncy production by ...