Telma Brigisdottir, a middle-school teacher in suburban Iceland, arrived at her classroom on a recent morning in March eager to introduce a new assignment. Dressed in a pink hoodie, she told her ...

REYKJAVIK, Iceland – When an Icelander arrives at an office building and sees “Solarfri” posted, they need no further explanation for the empty premises: The word means “when staff get an unexpected ...

Iceland's former prime minister, Katrin Jakobsdottir, has said the country's mother tongue could fade away within a single generation as artificial intelligence and English-language media reshape how ...

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 roughly 400,000 ...

An Icelandic archaeologist believes that Gaelic-speaking settlers from Ireland and Scotland had a profound impact on Iceland's language, landscape, and literature. Thorvaldur Fridriksson's new book ...

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 ...