‘What’s beautiful about the language is how phonetic it is’ — Ólöf Arnalds on returning to Icelandic

It is a bright cold day in Reykjavik, sun streaming through her dormer window, when Ólöf Arnalds proclaims: “I am the ...
The Arts Desk

Ólöf Arnalds' voice carries the all-Icelandic 'Spíra'

The voice is fluting, translucent. The melodies it carries are linear yet sinuous, their rise and fall akin to undulating ...
Yahoo Finance

National Press Club to Host Screening of "The Day Iceland Stood Still" Followed by Conversation with Filmmakers and Iceland's Ambassador to the U.S. on Oct. 8

Doors open at 5:30 p.m. with opening remarks at 6:00 p.m. followed by the panel discussion at 7:30 p.m. Purchase tickets to attend here. Fifty years ago, on October 24, 1975, the women of Iceland went ...
Creative Review

Icelandair confirms Iceland is not AI-generated in new campaign

Playing on the popular idea that Iceland is too beautiful to be real, the airline has released a funny new campaign film that ...
Yahoo

Ukraine's foreign minister holds first conversation with Iceland's new foreign minister

On Wednesday, 18 October, Dmytro Kuleba, Foreign Minister of Ukraine, held his first conversation with Bjarni Benediktsson, the newly-appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iceland. Source: both ...
The Nation

Nation Conversations: Janet Elise Johnson on Iceland’s Feminist Successes

Johnson explains how the tiny Nordic country came to be the most feminist place on earth. Johnson sits down with executive editor Betsy Reed to explain how the tiny Nordic country came to be the most ...
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Did an Old Icelandic Translation of 'Dracula' Turn Out To Be 'Fan Fiction'?

Although an Icelandic version of "Dracula" was published in 1900, English-speaking researchers did not discover until the 2010s that it was drastically different from Bram Stoker's original novel and ...