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Click on the picture to watch an audio slideshow of Þorrablót, an Icelandic mid-winter feast. In the past there was no fresh food available at this time of year so people ate dried fish, smoked lamb, putrefied shark and soured blood and liver pudding along with other soured meat products—ram testicles included.
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Fjallabyggd (“Mountain Settlement”) is a skier’s dream. Its slopes are perfect for slaloming and there are also tracks for telemark skiing. Winter sporting enthusiasts can also go ice skating or rent snowmobiles. In summer, Fjallabyggd turns into a paradise for hikers. Read this special promotion about one of Iceland’s best hidden gems.
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The Greenlandic horror film Qaqqat Alanngui (“The Shadows in the Mountains”; 2011), directed by Malik Kleist and shot by Icelandic cameraman Freyr Líndal Sævarsson, will premiere in Iceland in Bíó Paradís in Reykjavík on Friday, January 27.
It is the second Greenland-produced film which has obtained funding and is the most popular film ever screened in Greenlandic cinemas, as stated in a press release.
Approximately 18,000 people have seen the movie in Greenland, which only has a population of 50,000. In the capital Nuuk, 8,000 out of its 15,000 habitants, went to see the movie.
It features a group of Greenlandic youngsters who go on a graduation trip to a mountain cabin far from human settlements. Soon they realize that they aren’t alone and a battle for life and death begins.
Also in Bíó Paradís: Ljósvakaljóð, a short film festival for young filmmakers, ages 15 to 25, will take place on Saturday. Admission is free.
Icelandic actor-director Baltasar Kormákur will be the guest of honor at the festival. Almost 40 short films and 30 screenplays were submitted, Morgunblaðið reports.
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A Playboy model, Progressive Party in trouble and a bad hair day.
Seven companies have asked to be listed on the NASDAQ OMX in Reykjavík, in one of the biggest privatization plans in the country’s history. All seven companies are owned, at least in part, by Landsbanki Íslands, which the Government of Iceland owns 81 percent.
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Landsvirkjun accounts for 75 percent of total electricity production in Iceland; in the year 2010 production reached 12,625 GWh. Climate change and the resulting increase in temperatures are expected to lead to a significant increase in the flow of glacial rivers in the years to come.
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The Special Prosecutors’ Office has filed charges in the so-called Al-Thani case, which pertains to the purchase of a five percent share in Kaupthing Bank in late September 2008, merely two weeks before the banking system’s collapse.
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The current issue of the quarterly magazine Iceland Review includes for example an interview with world-renowned fashion designer Steinunn Sigurðardóttir as well as features on the successful biotech company ORF Genetics and the hot debate regarding the EU. If you subscribe now, you will receive a photo book by IR editor, photographer Páll Stefánsson of the eruptions in Eyjafjallajökull as a gift. Click here to subscribe to the magazine and here to buy a gift subscription.
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REVIEWS
The second series of The Press continues to follow the life of journalist, mother and wife Lára and her investigation of Iceland’s underground world.
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Harvesting human-like protein from genetically modified barley, Icelandic company ORF Genetics is revolutionizing the world of green biotechnology. With Iceland’s First Lady Dorrit Moussaieff and Hollywood stars among its loyal fans, the company’s phenomenal skincare range has, quite literally, changed the face of the cosmetics industry.
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The international recognition that the architecture firm Snøhetta has received is quite unique in a Norwegian context.
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