The town council of Grindavík, Southwest Iceland has narrowed down around 339 name suggestions for the new lava field at Fagradalsfjall to just two: Fagrahraun and Fagradalshraun. RÚV reports that both options have been submitted to the authority that approves new place names in Iceland. The many craters at the eruption site, which has been […]
Residents of Húsavík have literally painted the town red for this Sunday’s Academy Awards ceremony, which features a musical performance filmed in the North Iceland locale. A girls’ choir from the town will take part in the ceremony in a performance of the Oscar-nominated ballad Húsavík, featured in the Will Ferrel film Eurovision Song Contest: […]
Today marks 50 years since the repatriation of two of Iceland’s most important medieval manuscripts. The Codex Regius of the Poetic Edda (Konungsbók Eddukvæða) and the Codex Flateyensis (Flateyjarbók) were returned to Iceland from Denmark on this day in 1971, a remarkable and symbolic event in Iceland’s history. Now a state-of-the-art building is under construction […]
An earthquake of magnitude 4.1 was detected on the Reykjanes peninsula at 11.05pm last night. It is the largest earthquake that has been detected on the peninsula since the eruption in nearby Geldingadalir began on March 19. The earthquake is likely due to “stress movements in the earth’s crust due to the eruption,” according to […]
Friðgeir Einarsson has published three books; one novel and two short story collections. He has also attracted attention within the Icelandic performing arts scene as an actor, director, and author with performance groups including 16 Lovers and Kriðpleir. His play Club Romantica was premiered at the Reykjavík City Theatre earlier this year and has received praise from both viewers and critics. What It’s Like to Drown first appeared in his book Ég hef séð svona áður (I’ve Seen This Before) in 2018.
Iceland will start vaccinating with the Janssen vaccine and will receive additional doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine from Norway, Chief Epidemiologist Þórólfur Guðnason disclosed at a regularly scheduled CIVD-19 information briefing today. He considers the government’s latest plans on tightened border restrictions before lifting restrictions on June 1 to be sensible but notes that they […]
