Just over 60 miles from the Arctic Circle, in the northern climes of Iceland, lies the town of Akureyri. While it may be a bit hard to pronounce, Akureyri is fast becoming known as the Arctic Abbey ...

Regarding Brad Leithauser’s review of Egill Bjarnason’s “How Iceland Changed the World” (Books, May 29): I first went to Iceland over Christmas 1965-66 to propose to a woman whom I had met when we ...

Initially launched as a one-off event in an airplane hanger back in 1999, Iceland Airwaves, the world’s most northern music festival takes place each year in downtown Reykjavík. This year the fest ...

Laufey Lin, a 24-year-old Icelandic musician and songwriter (known by the mononym Laufey to her fans), never dreamed that her music, which she started writing while she was a college student in Boston ...