God of Wednesday

Today, June 17, Icelanders celebrate their independence day, on the birthday of Jon Sigurdsson, the leader of the nineteenth-century Icela...

When some people go to Iceland for the first time, they want to see it all. In seven days they drive the entire Ring Road, bagging all the...

On a sunny day in Iceland, when I'm traveling east out of Rekjavik, it's almost impossible not to detour to Thingvellir, as I ...

In 2010, on the night of Snorri Sturluson’s murder, September 23, I sat on the stones surrounding his hot tub at Reykholt in western Icel...

“You cannot take the tunnel today,” proclaimed my friend Þórður. It was too sunny. A brilliant sunny day in Sept...