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February
13
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Þorrablót – Mid-Winter Feast
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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31.12.2010 | 11:30
Gledilegt Nýtt Ár!
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 New Year’s Eve with an excessive amount of fireworks.
Perlan at sunrise in winter. Photo by Páll Kjartansson.
February
27
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News from Iceland
Handball, the village, some food and fun, Finnur Bjarnason, more music, dance in Montana and Huddersfield Town.
February
27
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New Icelandic Film Database Opens
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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February
27
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Parliamentarians Plotted Pots and Pans Revolution?
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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February
27
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Ruthless Poacher on the Loose
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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February
27
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Central Bank Bought Euros for 240 ISK in Auction
February
26
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Complaints of Anti-Semitism in 400 year-old Easter Psalm
February
26
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Even More News
February
25
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11-Year-Old Rescues Infant from Drowning
February
25
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Fighting With the Iron Capture
February
25
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Skálafell Ski Slope Reopened at Last
February
24
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Bus Rolls Over in East Fjords
February
24
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Number of Fishing Ships Increases
February
24
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Inflation Now 6.3 Percent
February
24
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Some News and Other News
February
24
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Women Kept in the Dark about Leaky Implants
February
24
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Wind Farming Research Underway
February
23
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Increasingly Higher Wages in Iceland
February
23
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Norræna's Passenger Numbers Decreasing
February
23
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Icelanders to Compete at World Transplant Games
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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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REVIEWS
February
27
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iBjörk - Biophilia
It’s Björk. Say no more.
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February
27
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Feature of the Week: To Be or Not To Be …
… 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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