REYKJAVIK, ICELAND — Here are a few things selling briskly in Iceland’s capital as Christmas approaches: horse meat, secondhand clothing and used DVDs of “The Sound of Music.” Thrift is the new mantra ...

In Iceland, the Christmas holiday tradition includes not one, but 13 Santa Clauses. They’re brothers who live in the mountains with their parents. But these Santas, or Yule Lads as they’re called, are ...

A cool connection happened recently between the Northland Public Library and a library in Iceland, thanks to a house made of books and an overseas summer reading program. Nicolas Yon, Northland ...

Scientists at deCODE genetics, a subsidiary of Amgen, have published a study on actionable genotypes detected in the Icelandic population and their association with lifespan. The results of this study ...

Genetic heterogeneity of Icelanders Peer-Reviewed Publication Blackwell Publishing Ltd. Research undertaken by Professor Einar Árnason at the University of Iceland, Reykjavik and published in the ...