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 …

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 …

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

Your roundup of the best recent blog posts and news articles about Iceland from across the globe.

Image: Suðureyri ~ Kermet

Iceland Review
Not Coming Home for Christmas
“By the time you read this I’ve either just had my baby, am giving birth or am about to (my due date is Christmas Day). I might also possibly be in an ambulance, stuck in snowdrift somewhere between Blönduós and Akureyri, the so-called Capital of the North.”
These are the best days of our lives
14,400 minutes and counting
“After the game a couple of the parents planned a …

Your roundup of the best blog posts and news articles about Iceland from across the globe.

Image: Camping by the Icefall. July 1965. – We are on the road to Þórsmörk waiting for the ” ferry bus” to take us there. ~ Helgi Angantýsson.

Iceland Weather Report
A rundown of the Assembly results
“I’ve been going through the results from yesterday’s National Assembly and am well and truly inspired by what I see. Granted, all the work needed to implement these things still remains, and there are not many concrete suggestions — but …