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The magazine re-publishes reflections on the 1986 meeting at Höfði house and covers the film The Brink Of War, partly shot at the historic venue.
Eldfell, rising on the island of Heimaey in the Westman Islands, originated from a dramatic eruption in 1973 that transformed both the island’s landscape and daily life.
Iceland’s largest offshore island, Heimaey, has weathered natural disasters and traumatic invasions, with its community and landscape shaped by volcanoes, history and the sea.
During World War II, the landscape near Reykjanes changed quickly as the United States military created airfields, including Patterson Field, that shaped both local history and later aviation developments.
Papey, a two-square-kilometre island near Iceland’s east coast, blends tales of early religious settlers with a legacy of Norse habitation and thriving seabird life.
From medieval trading hub to modern municipality, Hafnarfjörður stands on ancient lava fields and old legends, just south of Reykjavík.
Known in Iceland as Tyrkjaránið, or the Turkish Abductions, the 1627 attacks by Barbary pirates left a deep mark on Icelandic memory, though they remain little known abroad.
