Day: June 9, 2005

Until the past weeks, herring, once one of Iceland’s most profitable and abundant fish stocks, had not been seen close to Iceland’s shores for almost forty years.

A lawsuit which Auður Laxness filed earlier this year against Hannes Hólmstein Gissurarson, professor at the University of Iceland, was dismissed in Reykjavík District Court today.

A block of 4 per cent of the Íslandsbanki owned by Steinunn Jónsdóttir was put in play recently, and today the media report that Burðarás, an investment company controlled by Landsbanki, has secured those shares.