According to meteorologist Trausti Jónsson, the beginning of June was the coldest in Reykjavík this century. “The average temperature in Reykjavík during the first 20 days of June was 7.8°C, which is ...

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.

In the process, Axel ends up entangled with moonshine-brewing teenagers and a cast of small-time club gangsters. What starts as a simple mission turns into something stranger, wilder — and more iconic ...

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.

For the cover, we asked renowned Icelandic visual artist Baldur Helgason to render the cover feature’s concept visually. The result: a contemporary depiction of the shoulder angel and demon. Here, ...

In this episode, we cover a search for a lost person on Mt. Esja that began Monday and was ongoing when we recorded; we discuss last week’s fatality at Brúará, midway between Laugarvatn and Geysir; ...

Therefore we find ourselves obliged to crudely contextualise some of the main characters in the cover feature, in order to help you — dear reader — to get a better handle of the subject in question.

Snorri wasn’t alone in sensing the shift. Sigríður Á. Andersen, former minister of justice and Independence Party MP, now a Centre Party candidate, put it plainly, “Young people are leaning right.” ...

In the summertime, Icelanders do anything for a good time Before we left our stinky turfhouses (some as late as the 1960s), winters were a time of quiet consolation when us farmers and fishermen ...

Despite continuous efforts, attempts to refloat the orca early this morning — around 6:00 — were not successful. While the whale did begin to swim as the tide returned, it remains in the cove and has ...

The discovery sheds new light on urban life in the early 20th century. A range of historical artefacts was unearthed during a survey conducted by the Icelandic Institute of Archaeology in connection ...

On June 18, one person was transported to a hospital when a car collided into the side of a bus at the intersection between Hverfisgata and Klapparstígur in Reykjavík, RÚV reports. Bus number 2 was ...