In our fourth episode Iceland News talks to the very genial Bob Cluness – a Scotsman living in Iceland. He’s been there since 2007 after marrying an Icelander. We talk about life, the kreppa, a volcano and learn how to get started with the Icelandic music scene. Cluness works for prosthetic limb company Ossur by day. By night he’s also writing for the Reykjavik Grapevine and his new blog: The Reykjavik Sex Farm.

Iceland News is providing updates and coverage of Iceland’s new, and more serious, volcanic eruption from its Twitter account and Facebook fan page.
Twitter: @icelandnews
Facebook: Iceland News Facebook fan page

If you follow news out of Iceland and you’ve not heard of the volcanic eruption of the past few weeks then what rock have you been living under?
There’s not a minute goes by within a new tweet about it.
And they keep on flowing.
English language media in the country (The Reykjavik Grapevine, Iceland Weather Report and Iceland Review) have jumped on the volcano bandwagon to varying degrees. While most have provided great coverage (The Iceland Weather Report), I’d argue Reykjavik Grapevine has come out on top. Just watch out for Ice …

We received a comment from Ice News in response to one of our posts about volcano coverage. We thought it’d be good to hoist it up for all to see. Thanks for taking the time to respond Alex. Appreciated.

The vast majority of IceNews volcano stories are purely news items – as is true of all our articles.
The occasional advertisements are easy to spot and do not impact upon our news service at all.
IceNews is consistently one of the most visited Iceland news websites in English and usually breaks new stories …

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 …