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Baldur: No. I won’t publish a book or anything. All of this just started when I was working at this pizza place and listening to a bunch of blues. So I started writing some of my own blues lyrics. I ...
What’s a more appropriate celebration of the spookiest weekend of the year than to attend a hardcore festival in Akranes? You can fax me your responses. Through the arduous work of a longstanding and ...
As reported, the City of Reykjavík turned off the streetlights across the city for two hours last night (originally scheduled for 22:00 to 23:00, this was later extended to midnight) in order to give ...
A total of 100 horses were killed, in 46 farms across West Húnavatn, East Húnavatn and Skagajförður, all in northwest Iceland, where the storm hit hardest. It bears emphasising that responsibility can ...
You can buy a copy of the full Best Of Iceland 2019 magazine—an essential guide to having fun in Iceland, from the Best Café in East Iceland and beyond— here, posted worldwide. We also have a Special ...
Meanwhile, our new adorable volcano has attracted hordes of admirers, done a fancy crater collapse, and floated noxious gasses all over the capital. Real mixed reviews from us to Litli-Hrútur! We also ...
At the same time, they emphasise that “as evidence of magma movement shallower than 10 km implies increased potential of a volcanic eruption, the Bárðarbunga aviation color code has been changed to ...
Royal pudding, long an Icelandic staple dessert, has introduced a new flavour for the first time since the 1960s—salted caramel—and Icelanders are over the moon about the prospect. The company’s ...
Oddly enough, a peculiar investor popped up unexpectedly to WAB a few weeks ago. The hopeful investor, Michele Ballarin, claimed that she was trying to buy up all of the remaining properties out of ...
Tomorrow, winter break ends for most Icelandic schools and after school centres. While chief epidemiologist Þórólfur Guðnason had recommended extending the break until the 10th, ultimately Minister of ...
There have been so many musical reinterpretations of traditional Icelandic rímur poems throughout the years, and Kristín Lárusdóttir’s new album is an incredible take on the form. With an extensive ...
Icelandic Olympian pole vaulter, Þórey Edda Elísdóttir, opened up in an interview with Vísir yesterday about the shame she experienced after finding out that she could have unknowingly transmitted ...