A potential disaster was narrowly avoided when a training aircraft lost its nose wheel over Austurvöllur while approaching Reykjavík Airport. The wheel landed in front of the Alþingi building. No one ...

Making the rounds every so often is a list of 37 Icelandic terms for different levels of drunk you can be. There’s góðglaður (a good-happy level of drunk), hestfær (horse able, meaning you can still ...

Borgarfjörður Eystri is home to Bakkagerði, the remote town of around 100 people that’s well-known for it’s hiking routes and beautiful nature. The road there is a dramatic and precipitous drive over ...

In the TV programme Silfrið, aired by RÚV on June 2, Minister of Judicial Affairs Þorbjörg Sigríður Gunnlaugsdóttir admitted to have concerns about growing hate speech towards immigrants. The remarks ...

Issue 7, 2025 of The Reykjavík Grapevine. In this issue we discuss the Icelandic summer, the songs that go with the Icelandic summer, we tel you about Petra’s collection of stones, discuss the word ...

What is the Reykjavik Grapevine? Your essential guide to life, travel and entertainment in Iceland. The Reykavík Grapevine is Iceland's biggest, best and most widely read English-language publication.

It isn’t often that an entirely new cultural medium is born. But over the last few decades, video games have taken over the world. With over three billion active players, games have emerged as both a ...

Some artists push boundaries. Others dissolve them entirely. For Björk Guðmundsdóttir, a concert is never just a concert, an album is never just an album. Her latest tour? Elaborated to such detail ...

A Labrador Retriever named Orka has started working as an assistant teacher in Rimaskóli primary school. The dog helps teaching students in third grade, and doubles as a therapist, its owner and ...

It’s no secret that Iceland is broadly regarded as a safe and accepting place for the LGBTQIA+ community. Laws criminalising same-sex sexual activity were repealed in 1940, same-sex couples have been ...

Situated on the docks of Reykjavík harbour is Tacoson – a food truck overlooking a skatepark and a basketball court. Nearby is a massive cruise liner, which almost acts like a seven-storey building ...

Icelandic companies are being required to comply with U.S. laws that prohibit implementing policies promoting diversity, equity, or inclusion (DEI), reports RÚV. However, Icelandic law mandates that ...