Chefs around the country were busy yesterday preparing salted lamb and cooking split pea soup — the meal that will be served on tables far and wide today.

There was a time when children leapt out of bed at dawn on Bolludagur to rush in and spank their parents with a bolluvöndur while they were still in bed, earning a cream bun as a reward for each swat.

The Ísólfur search and rescue team from Seyðisfjörður came to the aid of a group of people whose car became stuck on Fjarðarheiði last night.

Today there will be a northerly wind, generally 3–10 m/s in the west but 13–18 m/s in the east.

On April 22, the new Miss Iceland will be crowned, and among this year’s contestants are twin sisters Sara Guðjónsdóttir, Miss Geysir, and Lilja Guðjónsdóttir, Miss Gullfoss. The idea to participate arose after they watched a close friend ...

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