Iceland: Media Sources: Home

Illustration of Mount Hekla from Olaus Magnus,

Historia delle genti et della natura delle cose settentrionali.

Venice: Giunti, 1565.

This association of Iceland's Mount Hekla with a subterranean Chaos is plausible for a time and place when geomorphological processes were more mysterious than they are now. As the eruption of Eyjafjallajökull (not far from Hekla) in April 2010 amply illustrates, volcanic activity is intrinsic to the environment--and culture--of Iceland.

Þingvallavatn is the large lake into which Öxará flows

after its course through Þingvellir, the historic plains

where Iceland's medieval national parliament

(Alþingi) met annually.

Fording Markarfljót

Photograph by Frederick W.W. Howell, ca. 1900

There are several Icelandic news media outlets--newspapers and broadcast media--with Web access. These media are all in Icelandic.

Morgunblaðið has long been a leading Icelandic daily. The daily newspaper, continually updated, is at http://www.mbl.is/mm/frettir/. 

Archive editions of Morgunblaðið are available through the Icelandic digital archive of periodicals, tímarit.is, at http://timarit.is/ (available in Icelandic and English). There is an embargo on the last three calendar years.

DV (Dagblaðið Vísir) is available at http://www.dv.is/. Archive editions are at http://timarit.is/ under Dagblaðið Vísir – DV (1981-2003), Vísir (1910-1981) and Dagblaðið (1975-1981).

Eyjan.is (http://eyjan.is/) is an online news site continually updated with both Icelandic and international coverage. 

News coverage via Internet is also available on the Web site of Ríkisútvarpið (Icelandic National Broadcasting), http://www.ruv.is/, which also carries listings for and access to Icelandic television and radio.

There are also several sites in English that specialize in news from Iceland.

Iceland Review Online (http://icelandreview.com/) perpetuates the news reporting of an established English-language publication in Iceland.

Iceland News (http://www.icelandnewsonline.net/) offers "News and analysis from Iceland..." and breaking stories through Facebook and Twitter.

ABYZ Newslinks offers the following access to Icelandic newspapers on line large and small, national and regional:

http://www.abyznewslinks.com/icela.htm

Tjörnin (the Pond)

is the middle of downtown Reykjavík, the capital of Iceland.

It is an ecosystem all to its own and supports a rich variety

of plants and waterfowl.