4. júlí 2022 A for­eign man in his seventies died in Almanna­gjá at Þing­vellir national park on Saturday. The man lived abroad and was tra­vell­ing in Iceland. As stated by mbl.is, there was a great set of mea­sures und­er­ta­ken in Almanna­gjá on Saturday, due to a man fall­ing acutely ill. Emergency per­sonnel from The Health Institute of South Iceland, together with the staff...

1. júlí 2022 Hilda All­ans­dóttir, a hiker, recently came across a man who was penetrat­ing a horse. In an interview with DV, Hilda expla­ins that the man seemed to be extrem­ely emb­arrassed and hurried away. He spoke English and seemed angered by her intervention, clenching his fist and shouting: „You are just mak­ing trouble. Go away.“ „I came across him and he seemed...

30. júní 2022 A middle-aged man was diagnosed with mon­keypox on Tuesday. This is the fourth infection to be diagnosed in Iceland and the country’s Chief Epidem­i­olog­ist says that the case is most likely a domestic infection, which is a cause for concern. RÚV orig­inally reported on this. „These are sim­ilar symptoms as in the other three, which are mainly skin symptoms. People...

29. júní 2022 Ugla Stefanía Krist­jönu­dóttir Jóns­dóttir, or Owl Fisher in English, says that the psychologist Jordan Peterson, who did an interview on the news program Ísland í dag on Sunday, is spr­ea­d­ing contradictory and dangerous information about trans youth issues that can cause harm to young people. Peterson’s comments about trans children and sur­geries done on them evoked strong reactions from the...

28. júní 2022 Eiríkur Rögn­valds­son, for­mer pro­fessor of Icelandic grammar at the Uni­versity of Iceland, shares an anonymous email on his Facebook page, that he received after he def­ended the Icelandic „Fjall­kona“, which would directly translate to the Icelandic Mountain Woman. It is a role acted out by a woman each year on June 17th, Iceland’s national independence day. This year’s mountain woman...

24. júní 2022 The Icelandic govern­ment has admitted to a violation aga­inst fourteen people in cases that have gone before the European Court of Human Rights. Frétta­blaðið first covered the verdict. Vil­hjálmur H. Vil­hjálms­son is the lawyer of most of the people. Each of the cases ends with the govern­ment’s declaration of infr­ingement, in addition to 4,000 EUR being paid to each of...

22. júní 2022 This morn­ing, there was a shooting in Hafn­ar­fjörður, on the street Mið­vangur. It was orig­inally reported that a man had shot at a stationary car, parked in a park­ing lot between a res­idential build­ing and a kind­erg­ar­ten. Police’s special forces were at the scene quickly and at around 8 am their num­bers had increased, and they wore bulletproof vests. Soon,...

21. júní 2022 The man currently in police custody suspected of murder in Barða­vogur on June 4th received a sentence for violence in 2020. This is reported by mbl.is. In addition to being convicted of a violent crime, the man was also convicted of violat­ing child protection law for the same incident. In that instance he was convicted for behav­ing violently, aggressi­vely, and...

21. júní 2022 As Mannlíf covered last May, the landowners of one of the country’s most significant natural sights had accepted a purchase offer for the land, which includes Fjaðrár­gljúfur canyon. The canyon became a world-famous tourist destination, after the sin­ger Justin Bieber recorded a music video there. The canyon is part of a land called Heiði and the accepted purchase offer amounts...

20. júní 2022 Icelandic journalist Haukur Hauksson is now tra­vel­ing in a conflict zone in Ukraine. Frétta­blaðið recently reported that he was there by invitation from the Russian govern­ment. According to recent news from Hauksson, he had a polite chat this weekend with a man who is beli­eved to have recently committed war crimes. Þórður Snær Júl­í­us­son, editor of Kjarninn, pointed this out...

20. júní 2022 „There are no new stu­dies on this, but there are however old stu­dies from the Uni­versity of Iceland that show that the use of mater­i­als in Icelandic structures is far above European avera­ges,“ said Magnús Rannver Rafnsson, engineer, in the radio show Sprengi­sandur yester­day. He states that Icelanders are world champions when it comes to the use of concrete. In...

14. júní 2022 „There are very few cases where perpetr­ators actually take responsi­bility. In the instances that I can recall, in the current MeToo-movem­ent, it has usu­ally been done quite clumsily. For example, it has not been done in consultation with the victims and people have not taken full responsi­bility,“ says Gabríela Bryndís Ernu­dóttir, psychologist and chairwoman for the activist organization Líf án...