Articles Archive for January 2010
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Articles, stories and videos from the past week that caught the eye of Iceland News.
Image: “Dinner / Obiad: Denisa, Amanda i frytki.”
Icelandic Saga Database
Sagas of the Icelanders
“The Icelandic Saga Database is an online resource dedicated to the digital publication of the Sagas of the Icelanders — a large body of medieval literature which forms the foundation of the Icelandic literary tradition. The sagas are prose histories describing events that took place amongst the Norse and Celtic inhabitants of Iceland during the period of the Icelandic Commonwealth in the 10th and …
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Articles and stories from the past week that caught the eye of Iceland News.
Image: “Reflection on Ice” ~ Jónína Óskarsdóttir
Guardian
Iceland’s children paying for slump
“Public health experts have noticed signs of family breakdown in the wake of the 2008 financial meltdown that left most adults in serious debt.”
Iceland Weather Report
In support of those about to lose their homes
“Soon after the crash, the government froze mortgages — meaning that people could delay their payments until a later date. However, that freezing runs out next month, at which time there is likely to …
Icelandic Haiti Response »
+ Icelandic team in Haiti | Credit: ICE-SAR
Iceland has sent its search and rescue team to Haiti. They’re taking photos and blogging (in English) about their mission.
BLOG SITE
PHOTO ALBUM
DV.IS NEWS STORY
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Channel 4 News Icesave.
We Will Say No To Icesave: Icelandic President on Bloomberg
Newsnight Icesave Part 1 & 2 – Interview with Icelandic President Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson.
An Icelandic response to Icesave
Interview »
-Sturla Sighvatsson (second from right) at REVA car signing agreement.
*** Read part one of this interview here.
IN: How is the program going right now? Do you already have charging posts out in the cities? How’s the roll-out going for that?
Sighvatsson: We will start the roll-out next year (2010). We are still in the design phase. First of all we set out and visited companies both in the US and the UK. They were building charging stations and offering them at point of sale to customers. But we quickly found …
