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Click on the picture to watch an audio slideshow of Þorrablót, an Icelandic mid-winter feast. In the past there was no fresh food available at this time of year so people ate dried fish, smoked lamb, putrefied shark and soured blood and liver pudding along with other soured meat products—ram testicles included.
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Fjallabyggd (“Mountain Settlement”) is a skier’s dream. Its slopes are perfect for slaloming and there are also tracks for telemark skiing. Winter sporting enthusiasts can also go ice skating or rent snowmobiles. In summer, Fjallabyggd turns into a paradise for hikers. Read this special promotion about one of Iceland’s best hidden gems.
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The leader of the Hells Angels motorcycle club in Norway Leif Ivar Kristiansen has filed a lawsuit against the Icelandic state to the Icelandic Ministry for Justice and Human Rights for what he calls unfounded deportation on February 8.
Kristiansen was arrested upon his arrival to the country at Keflavík International Airport. The Directorate of Immigration decided to deny him entrance to the country, placed him in custody and sent him back to Norway the following day, ruv.is reports.
The Ministry of Justice and Human Rights confirmed the directorate’s decision. It will take a position in regard to the lawsuit in the coming weeks. Kristiansen’s lawsuit against the Icelandic state will be handled by the district court system.
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Handball, the village, some food and fun, Finnur Bjarnason, more music, dance in Montana and Huddersfield Town.
A new database dedicated to Icelandic filmmaking has been opened at Kvikmyndavefurinn.is. It features more than 1,200 titles and eight thousand individuals.
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A Parliamentarian asked the Reykjavík Chief of Police for access to data used in the police investigation of whether members of Alþingi instigated the protests and directed protesters who demonstrated outside the parliament building in January 2009.
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It appears that a serious offense has been committed near Grundarfjörður, West Iceland. An exceptionally audacious criminal has had the gall to fish for halibut during the halibut fishing ban.
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The current issue of the quarterly magazine Iceland Review includes for example an interview with world-renowned fashion designer Steinunn Sigurðardóttir as well as features on the successful biotech company ORF Genetics and the hot debate regarding the EU. If you subscribe now, you will receive a photo book by IR editor, photographer Páll Stefánsson of the eruptions in Eyjafjallajökull as a gift. Click here to subscribe to the magazine and here to buy a gift subscription.
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It’s Björk. Say no more.
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… a member of the European Union. That is the biggest question asked in the Republic right now. We asked parliamentarian Ásmundur Einar Daðason and mathematician Pawel Bartoszek ten questions to capture their arguments for and against Iceland becoming member number 28 of the European Union.
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The international recognition that the architecture firm Snøhetta has received is quite unique in a Norwegian context.
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