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My grandfather is a nature lover who has traversed the country many times on horseback. He brought all of his six children with him to

Whales are a sensitive issue in Iceland. On the one hand, Icelanders are infamous whale hunters who resumed commercial whaling in 2006 after a break

Visitors to Reykjavík might be surprised at how many green areas there are in the capital and the surrounding towns. You don’t have to go far before

How does a jewellery designer move on to writing a children’s book? By writing about an enchanted ring, of course. Hendrikka Waage is an accomplished

If you take anything away from this review, let it be this: You must read this book. Now with that out of the way, let

I first came across Dick Ringler’s translation of Icelandic national poet Jónas Hallgrímsson’s work shortly after the economic crisis hit. I was writing a column on how

Icelanders in the Viking Age – The People of the Sagas by William R. Short, an independent scholar from Massachusetts, was released in March. He is

First when I heard of Christina Sunley’s debut The Tricking of Freya I thought it was some wishy-washy mystical tale loosely based on Norse mythology, Icelandic sagas

Icelandic Folk Legends – Tales of Apparitions, Outlaws and Things Unseen is a collection of Icelandic folktales translated by one of Iceland’s most widely read bloggers,