The Municipality of Hornafjörður and traditional Icelandic food
We come from the municipality of Hornafjörður or some call it Austur-Skaftafellssýsla, either way it’s the same thing. It´s located in the South-East and it's the 4th largest municipality in Iceland by land area as it covers around 6.309 Square kilometers. Around 2500 people live in Hornafjörður municipality and most of them live in the...
Icelandic traditions and information about FAS
Þorrinn is a period of time with a few different days and traditions. But the food on Þorrinn is very interesting, we have pickled ram balls, sheep heads, sour shark meat and slátur which is mixed sheep intestines', blood and fat. Þorrinn starts between 19th – 26th January every year. Þorrinn is a period of...
Icelandic livestock
How did animals come to Iceland? Iceland only had one native land animal when the Norse first arrived here and that was the Arctic Fox. Today, there are multiple species of animals to be found across the country. None arrived naturally, either being brought over by humans on boats or sneaking across on the boats,...
Information about Iceland – short film
Information about Iceland - short film made by Aron Freyr, Almar and Sævar Rafn.