Ancient DNA from Iceland’s first centuries of habitation is forcing historians and geneticists to redraw the map of who ...

New evidence has been discovered that Norse people may have lived in Iceland almost 70 years after the widely accepted date.

Despite overwhelming evidence, the replacement of European societies remains — frustratingly — a contested concept. Across the continent, cities and towns are unrecognizable. Novel social ills ...

HAFNARFJORDUR, ICELAND — Iceland is known for its northern lights and black sand beaches, but there's another layer of magic in this Nordic island nation that many visitors might miss. In the town of ...

“I stood in front of the parliament building every lunch hour and asked people, ‘Can you tell me what has happened in this country? Do you have any idea what we can do’?” Singer-songwriter, poet and ...

REYKJAVÍK, Iceland — People in southwest Iceland remained on edge Saturday, waiting to see whether a volcano rumbling under the Reykjanes Peninsula will erupt. Civil protection authorities said that ...

The people of Iceland voted overwhelmingly against a plan to compensate the British and Dutch governments to the tune of about $5 billion Saturday. The referendum followed a lengthy grass-roots ...

Baltasar Kormákur’s Icelandic box office hit Touch marks the fifth time that the filmmaker has been chosen as the country’s representative in the International Feature Oscar category, but it also reps ...

Play Airlines Pilot Una Gísladóttir shares what it's like to view — and capture pictures of — the northern lights from 35,000 feet in the air Play Airlines First Officer Una Gisladottir Una ...