Reykjavik (AFP) – In Iceland's parliament, six cleaners take a break from their duties to spend time learning Icelandic, seen as one of the principal barriers to integration in the country. Of the ...

If you've browsed a dusty old Viking saga and thought you’d need a full translation or an ancient rune decoder to make sense of it, then you’re not alone. However, on the island of Iceland, something ...

This article and radio report by Patrick Cox for The World in Words originally appeared on PRI.org on June 3, 2015, and is republished here as part of a content-sharing agreement. Jón Gnarr is best ...

Katrín Jakobsdóttir and her co-author want the 350,000 people who speak the language to fight for its future Iceland’s former prime minister, Katrín Jakobsdóttir, has said that the Icelandic language ...

A SHAMELESS SNP MP has trousered another pile of taxpayers’ cash to pay for Icelandic lessons. Western Isles MP Angus MacNeil this year claimed £685.79 to pay for classes in the language spoken by the ...