William Ecenbarger was a longtime reporter at the Philadelphia Inquirer. I hand the agent my brottfarerspjald, step on board Icelandair Flight 642. Just before takeoff, the flight attendant stands ...

One of the most vivid snapshots of my early years in Iceland is from an unusually mundane location: a board meeting at the male-dominated software startup where I worked in Reykjavík in 2003. Nothing ...

In an effort to counteract all the negative financial and volcano press, Iceland has launched a totally endearing PR campaign titled “Iceland Wants to Be Your Friend.” And friends teach each other fun ...

I hand the agent my brottfarerspjald, step on board Icelandair Flight 642 and make my way to Seat 30A. Just before takeoff, a tall, blond, blue-eyed flight attendant, who might have been a recent Miss ...

There’s a saying in Iceland that’s sort of the country’s unofficial motto: Þetta reddast (sounds like “thetta rettast”). Like so many Icelandic words there isn’t a direct translation into English, but ...

This video shows tourists tackling - and failing miserably - to crack what has been dubbed the ‘hardest karaoke song in the world’. The tongue-twisting sing-a-long – which is similar to Monty Python’s ...

An Icelandic archaeologist believes that Gaelic-speaking settlers from Ireland and Scotland had a profound impact on Iceland's language, landscape, and literature. Thorvaldur Fridriksson's new book ...