Toward the end of summer, a curious phenomenon began to take shape at an empty lot in Somerville, Massachusetts: A miniature elf village appeared. Faced with incontrovertible knowledge that tiny ...

For centuries, stories of hidden people, elves, and mysterious beings living within Iceland's hills, cliffs, and lava fields have fascinated outsiders. But beneath the tourist myths lies a far older ...

Bagotra have written and published their first book, “Maya Brooks and the Land of Fire and Ice,” which is available on Amazon ...

"Fire of Love" director Sara Dosa returns with a much colder but equally beautiful film about the first glacier to "die" from ...

Lamb begins as a quiet farm story and ends as a punishment story about a child who was never truly given to humans. Directed by Valdimar Jóhannsson and co-written with Sjón, the 2021 Icelandic film ...

Iceland has stood apart from the rest of Europe. But President Trump’s threats to Greenland have provoked a reconsideration.

Happy Memorial Day Weekend everyone! As usual on a Friday before a holiday, there aren’t a lot of new releases today and I ...

It hasn’t snowed in Reykjavik in four months, but hours after I arrive it starts to pelt down big, fluffy flakes of the stuff. It’s a fitting backdrop for the first day of Food & Fun, a festival in ...

The UK's Eurovision Song Contest entry this year, Look Mum No Computer, has a German twist, and now it seems the Germans are ...

J.R.R. Tolkien’s Elves stand apart from virtually every other fictional race in the history of fantasy literature. Across decades of world-building, Tolkien constructed multiple distinct Elven peoples ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...