29. mars 2022 The Coast Guard vessel Freyja was called to Bessa­staðir in the fjord Hrúta­fjörður, in the north-west part of Iceland, last weekend, to look into circumstances surrounding a beached whale at the shore. The crew sent two speed boats to the shore for inspection. The carcass tur­ned out to be a 15-meter-long sperm whale. The lines being fastened to the tail....

28. mars 2022 Alleged victims of Dr. Skúli Tómas Gunn­laugs­son’s medical malpractice are now up to fourteen. Nine of those have passed away. As told by Vísir, the investigation now being conducted by the police in Suðurnes, which has to do with alleged medical malpractice by a head doctor at Suðurnes Hospital and Health Center, resulted in the death of nine pati­ents; not...

28. mars 2022 Many were baffled by a post in a public group on Facebook, and some even took to Twitter to express their aston­is­h­ment. The discussion then became viral on Twitter. The orig­inal post on Facebook was made by a per­son complaining about non-Icelandic speak­ing people working in service. „English speak­ing people should not be hired for service positions,“ the indi­vi­dual wrote....

24. mars 2022 A recently publ­is­hed report, State of the Nordic Region, states that real estate prices increased the most in Iceland, out of all the Nordic countries during the Covid-19 pandemic. The report also states that the country’s GDP went further down, than in any other Nordic country. Unemploy­ment also grew the most in Iceland compared to the other countries. Birth rates...

21. mars 2022 The Saturday of 22nd of January, 1983, was a fateful day in the lives of the people liv­ing in the town Pat­reks­fjörður. The day started out as any other Saturday, except for the fact that there was to be a Þorra­blót celebration in the even­ing. Þorra­blót is an ancient Nordic tradition in celebration of the Nordic Gods, where people eat...

20. mars 2022 Import­ant points for people of differ­ent ethnicities liv­ing in Iceland, who would like to better und­er­stand dentistry for children and the cost of it. Today, dentistry for all children in Iceland is free of charge until the age of 18, with a few special exceptions which are always thoroughly explained, should they come up. Parents or guar­di­ans only pay a...

19. mars 2022 Frosti Logason, a well-known journalist currently working for the TV channel Stöð 2, sent out an announcement reg­ar­ding an interview publ­is­hed in the podcast Eigin Konur, where a woman named Edda Pét­urs­dóttir talks openly about a violent relationship she was in. She describes her ex-boyfri­end as being mentally abusive towards her, which only escalated after the relationship ended. After hav­ing...