29 Jan 2017Iceland is a country of many wonders. There are a however some things raise the eyebrows of tourists travelling in Iceland. Here is a list of twenty top strange and awesome facts about Iceland.
22 Sep 2016Iceland’s famous naming committee, the committee responsible for ruling on permissible Icelandic first names, has voted yes on the girl's name Angelina.
30 Jun 2016As Euro 2016 Iceland-mania sweeps the continent, a Norwegian news outlet has put together an amusing ‘Generate your own Icelandic name’ function for readers to play with.
3 Mar 2016The vast majority of Icelandic ‘surnames’ are not in fact surnames in the traditional sense, but patronyms – names based on the filial relationship with a male parent.
15 Feb 2016An online petition has been set up to allow Icelandic footballers playing in the Euro 2016 football tournament in France this summer to have their first name – rather than their surname – displayed on their football shirts.
21 Dec 2015Aron was the most popular name for baby boys in 2014 followed by Alexander and Viktor, and the most popular girls'names were Margrét, Anna and Emma.
28 Aug 2015Harriet Cardew, the half-British half-Icelandic girl who hit the news last summer when Registers Iceland refused to issue her with an Icelandic passport because of her name, has seen the controversial decision overturned.
7 Aug 2015A majority of Icelanders support loosening the existing rules governing the naming of children, according to a new opinion poll conducted by the Icelandic Ministry of Home Affairs.
26 Jun 2015Leifur Eiriksson, the Icelander who discovered North America some 500 years before Christopher Columbus is inspiring a new wave of baby names in the United States.
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