Day: August 26, 2005

Two Icelandic men climbed onto the roof of the prime minister’s office, Stjórnarrád, today to protest against aluminum smelters.

The Icelandic yogurt-like skyr, a national delicacy, makes its debut today in 28 of 129 Whole Foods Market grocery stores in the US. It is expected that 2- 3 tons of the high protein, fat-free pasteurized milk product will be sold in the US each week.

Not much has been written about George Lincoln Rockwell in Iceland until late last year when writer and Time Warner Executive VP Ólafur Jóhann Ólafsson based a character on him and his Icelandic wife in Ólafur’s new novel, the Innocents.

No nation uses as much electricity per capita as Iceland reports the Icelandic Broadcasting Service, RÚV. According to predictions, within a few years Icelanders will use twice as much electricity as Norwegians.