Tag: 22.05

Culture

The Right to Bear Arms

I’m sitting in a hotel lobby, scribbling some last-minute notes in my notebook before the interview. I look up and notice Guðmundur Felix Grétarsson entering so I raise a hand to let him know I’m here. He waves back, and I get up to greet him. He shakes my hand, and I introduce myself before he points to a small room where we can chat undisturbed. Nothing about this exchange feels remarkable to me, but Guðmundur Felix has a different perspective.

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Gréta Sigríður Einarsdóttir October 26, 2022

Magazine

There and Back Again

“I’m eager to tell you about him.” Everyone loves a good story, especially tales of adventure featuring a dogged, tenacious and sometimes tragic hero. In our day, thanks to more objective research and unflinching writing, heroes have lost much of their shine. Where we once unquestioningly celebrated aviator Charles Lindbergh, there is no denying that […]

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Frank Sands October 26, 2022

Culture

Home Cook

“We serve cod skin as snacks. The cod skin is salted, dried, and popped, sprinkled with angelica.” Up. Down. Up again. A fleeting moment of calm at the highest point. Down again, tourists whooping as the boat rolls in the waves. I, on the other hand, wasn’t enjoying that lurching feeling in my stomach as […]

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Gréta Sigríður Einarsdóttir October 26, 2022

Culture

Where There’s Fire

“There is a whole range of events that might occur before, during, and after an eruption.” Dr. Sara Barsotti is the co-ordinator of Volcanic Hazards and operational geophysical monitoring at the IMO The eruptions on the Reykanes peninsula in 2021 and 2022 once again propelled Iceland’s volcanoes into the global consciousness. The last time this happened […]

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Iceland Review October 26, 2022

Culture

I Will Dance Again

“I thought I was Mother Mary, I thought I could save the world. It was terrible.” The house in HveragerðiElísabet is already waiting for me as I pull into the parking space of her row house in Hveragerði. As I enter her new home, I offer to take off my shoes. But Elísabet instead ushers me to her […]

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Erik Pomrenke October 20, 2022

Features

Unsettled

“Nobody lives there. But the highland isn’t empty.” Around the turn of the 10th century, a man named Þórólfur Mostrarskegg sailed from Norway to escape the tyranny of King Haraldur Fairhair, establishing his new farm on Þórsnes, a spit of land on the north coast of the Snæfellsnes peninsula. Þórólfur came ashore, and having surveyed […]

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Erik Pomrenke October 20, 2022

Culture

Love, Bríet

“Is this the smallest stage in the world? Who’s trying to save money here?” THE BUS RIDE For the first time in what felt like a long time, I was free. No obligation to stay inside, to put the kids to bed, to return home before some vaguely appointed hour – for it was understood that […]

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Ragnar Tómas October 13, 2022

Features

In Harm’s Way

Gunni Marís On Thursday, November 25, 2021, I left a COVID testing clinic near the Kringlan shopping centre in Reykjavík. Stepping into my car, the phone rang and an unknown number appeared on the screen. I listened as the voice of an old acquaintance, meek but quietly upbeat, worked its way through the speaker. We […]

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Ragnar Tómas October 5, 2022