The Icelandair flight from RDU to Iceland landed at the Keflavik airport early Friday morning. From there it was a full day of taking in the sights and history of Reykjavík. The first stop on the tour ...

There’s a long-standing history of Jewish influence in Iceland as some believed the very first Jewish merchants to settle here came from Denmark in the 1600s. Throughout the centuries, the Jewish ...

Ancient DNA from Iceland’s first centuries of habitation is forcing historians and geneticists to redraw the map of who arrived on the island, when they came, and how their descendants shaped the ...

Viking explorer Garðar Svavarsson is credited with being the first person to circumnavigate Iceland by boat, in the year 870, and over the centuries he was followed by a number of other explorers and ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Michael Pye HOW ICELAND CHANGED THE WORLD The Big History of a Small Island By Egill Bjarnason It ...

In the early 1970s, women in Iceland earned over 40% less than men. 1975 had been declared International Women’s Year by the United Nations. Five of the biggest women’s groups in Iceland formed a ...

Last time these volcanic systems came to life – in the Viking age – they erupted on and off for about 300 years For 800 years the Reykjanes peninsula in Iceland has been a relatively peaceful place.