An old Douglas Dakota aircraft, purchased this March by the landowners of Sólheimasandur from the Icelandic DC-3 Friends Association, was transported last night from Keflavík Airport to rural South ...

The orca that stranded earlier this week in Grafarvogur has been euthanised, reports RÚV. After swimming back out to sea on Wednesday, it stranded again today at Kjalarnes. According to MAST’s Chief ...

An orca washed ashore near the golf course by Korpúlfsstaðir in Grafarvogur last night, reports RÚV. Davíð Friðjónsson, a shift supervisor with the Capital Area Fire Department, said the outgoing tide ...

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 ...

Well, it wasn’t Sigur Rós. There were some international acts, such as AXMO and the Australian DJ Timmy Trumpet, but the bulk of the entertainment, which lasted from 17:00 on Saturday to just after ...

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 ...

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’s not always as glamorous as people might think,” says Helgi Seljan as I meet him at the spacious RÚV headquarters. Having started as a deckhand in his hometown of Reyðarfjörður, Helgi has grown ...

It’s hard to explain the charm of Skjaldborg Documentary Film Festival for someone who’s never taken that winding road to Patreksfjörður on the Whitsun weekend. Sure, it focuses on documentary cinema ...

Wednesday, April 29th at 20:05, half of Iceland sat down to watch an episode of Kveikur, a news programme on RÚV, the National Broadcasting Service. Those who didn’t would do so in the following days ...