Þorsteinn Pálsson is a former Prime Minister of Iceland for the Independence Party. He served from 8 July 1987 to 28 September 1988. Þorsteinn led the Independence Party from 1983 to 1991, when he lost an inner partial election to then vice-chairman of the party and mayor of Reykjavík, Davíð Oddsson.
Fréttablaðið is the Icelandic newspaper with the largest circulation. The paper is distributed free of charge to homes in parts of the country. Each paper is read by about 60% and at any given time only 20% will not have read it at all over the past week.
Jóhannes Jónsson was an Icelandic businessman and one of the founders of the investment company Baugur Group, which applied for bankruptcy protection in February 2009. His warm public personality led him to be known as Jói í Bónus.
Matthías Vilhjálmsson is an Icelandic international footballer who plays as a striker for the Norwegian Premier League club Vålerenga. He can as well play as a midfielder. He also played for the Icelandic national football team from 2009-2016
Þorsteinn Bachmann is an Icelandic actor. He is known for his role as Móri in Life in a Fishbowl. In 2015 he won an Edda Award for that same role.
Thorvaldur Gylfason is an Icelandic economist who has been active in Icelandic public life. On 27 November 2010, he was elected to be a delegate at the Icelandic Constitutional Assembly in 2011. He is the chairman of the Iceland Democratic Party.
Niceland is a 2004 Icelandic drama directed by Friðrik Þór Friðriksson
In Iceland, a grade point average (GPA) is given as a weighed average of all grades in a marked period. Grades range from 0-10 and the GPA is rounded off to two decimal points.
The Icelandic Ministry of Fisheries and Agriculture is a cabinet-level ministry. It is an important economic ministry, with fisheries products making up about 40% of Iceland's exports.
Þorsteinn is an Icelandic masculine given name. Notable people with the name include:
Lanette Phillips is an American film and music video producer. Phillips’ feature producing credits include the Gary Baseman documentary, Mythical Creatures, which was selected for Sundance Institute New Frontier Story Lab and Sundance Institute Documentary Producers and Fellows Program. Other feature producing credits include documentary film, Buffalo Girls, and narrative film, Love Is the Drug, both of which were well received at the Slamdance Film Festival. Phillips has worked with various artists, such as Ed Sheeran, Rihanna, Calvin Harris, Selena Gomez, Justin Bieber, Beyonce, Ellie Goulding, Christina Aguilera, Jennifer Lopez, 50 Cent, Britney Spears, U2, Eminem, and Michael Jackson.
Harpa Þorsteinsdóttir is an Icelandic footballer. She plays as a striker for Stjarnan and the Iceland national team.
The 7th Edda Awards were held on 13 November 2005 at Nordica Hótel in Reykjavík. The Awards were hosted by actor Þorsteinn Guðmundsson and was broadcast live on RÚV.
Kumlbúa þáttr is a short medieval Icelandic tale (þáttr) set at the end of the twelfth century or the beginning of the thirteenth. It tells the story of Þorsteinn Þorvarðsson who stumbles upon a burial cairn and takes a sword from it. After he returns home he goes to bed and is visited in a dream by the cairn-dweller. The man, who wields a huge pole-axe, demands the return of the sword and threatens Þorsteinn. Þorsteinn's wife wakes him to ask why he is sleeping so poorly but he does not tell her and goes back to sleep at once. The cairn-dweller reappears and declaims a threatening verse. However, Þorsteinn retorts with a more technically proficient verse which 'caps' that of the cairn-dweller who then leaves Þorsteinn. The following day Þorsteinn goes to look for the cairn but cannot find it. He returns home and tells his wife and other people the story.
Hörður Axel Vilhjálmsson is an Icelandic professional basketball player for Keflavík of the Úrvalsdeild karla and a member of the Icelandic national team.
Þorsteinn Þorsteinsson was an Icelandic economist, director of the Icelandic Bureau of Statistics, and also one of the first authorities on Esperanto in Iceland, author of the first Icelandic textbook on Esperanto.
The following lists events that happened in 1987 in Iceland.
The Silver Lamp was an award given annually from 1954 to 1973 by the Association of Icelandic Drama Critics, a professional group of writers for the Reykjavík newspapers, for the best performance of the year on the Icelandic stage.
Þorsteinn Hallgrímsson is an Icelandic former basketball player. Nicknamed Doddi, he won the Icelandic championship nine times and the Danish championship four times during his career.
Hafdís Elín Helgadóttir is an Icelandic former basketball player. She spent a record 25 seasons in the Úrvalsdeild kvenna, scoring 3,180 points in 362 games. She retired as the Úrvalsdeild all-time leader list in career games played but has since been surpassed by Birna Valgarðsdóttir. As a member of ÍS, she won the national championship in 1991 and the Icelandic Basketball Cup in 1991 and 2003. In 2001 she was named to the Icelandic basketball team of the 20th century.
