The Icelandic educational website Bókaormar BarnUng received a prize for innovation at the 2007 eLearning Awards, organized by the European Schoolnet, which were held in Brussels earlier this month.
Comic authors Ingólfur Örn Björgvinsson and Embla Ýr Bárudóttir have published their third comic based on the old Icelandic Njáls Saga. Their most recent comic, The Hero, features Gunnar á Hlídarenda.
Today is the second day of Christmas. After eating to excess on December 24 and 25, many families just have leftovers for lunch, enjoy their new things and relax on December 26.
Many foreign tourists who visit Iceland in December ask that question since a triangular decoration with seven candle-like lights can be spotted in almost every window, which is very similar to seven-arm candlesticks used in synagogues.
Bones of foxes that were discovered at Strandir, the eastern part of the West Fjords, in 2004 turned out to be about 3,500 years old, which proves the theory that foxes had already settled in Iceland before humans did, in 874 A.D.
Christmas Day in Iceland is usually celebrated with a luncheon with the extended family. The traditional meal is hangikjöt (“smoked lamb”) with buttered laufabraud (“leaf bread”).
To commemorate its 100th anniversary, the Soil Conservation Service of Iceland (SCS) donated Christmas trees to the elementary school in Hvolsvöllur, south Iceland, the last week before Christmas.
Today is Christmas Eve. Christmas in Iceland officially begins when the bells of Reykjavík Cathedral chime at 6 pm. By then families will have gathered around the dinner table to have smoked pork and afterwards they open presents.
The Iceland Review team would like to send its readers in every corner of the world heartfelt seasonal greetings from the Arctic isle of Iceland where people are about to celebrate Christmas at this darkest time of the year.
Modern art gallery SAFN, located on Laugavegur in downtown Reykjavík, will close on December 30 and it has not been decided when it will reopen. Curator Pétur Arason hopes Icelandic contemporary art will receive more support in the future.
