Iceland elects on a national level a ceremonial head of state—the president—and a legislature. The president is elected for a four-year term by the people. The parliament has 63 members, elected for a four-year term by proportional representation using the D'Hondt method with a closed list. Iceland has a multi-party system, with numerous parties in which no one party typically has a chance of gaining power alone which typically results in a hung parliament, so parties must work with each other to form coalition governments.
Dense Time is an album released on December 9, 2005 by Icelandic guitar player Guðlaugur Kristinn Óttarsson.
The Age of the Sturlungs or the Sturlung Era was a 42–44 year period of violent internal strife in mid-13th century Iceland. It is documented in the Sturlunga saga. This period is marked by the conflicts of local chieftains, goðar, who amassed followers and fought wars, and is named for the Sturlungs, the most powerful family clan in Iceland at the time. The era led to the signing of the Old Covenant, which brought Iceland under the Norwegian crown.
This is a timeline of Icelandic history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Iceland and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see history of Iceland.
Bjarni Benediktsson, known colloquially as Bjarni Ben, is an Icelandic politician, who is the current prime minister of Iceland since April 2024, and previously from January to November 2017. He has been the leader of the Icelandic Independence Party since 2009, and served as Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs from 2013 to 2017, a post he later retained under Katrín Jakobsdóttir and held until his resignation in October 2023. After serving briefly as the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Bjarni became prime minister again on 9 April 2024.
Kolbeinn Sigþórsson is an Icelandic former professional footballer who played as a forward.
Róbert Marshall is an Icelandic politician. In April 2009, he was elected as a Member of the Althing for the Reykjavik Constituency South, representing the Social Democratic Alliance (Samfylkingin). On 12 October 2012 he decided to leave his party, in order to become a new party member and top list election candidate for the newly founded party Bright Future in Reykjavik Constituency South.
Reykjavík South is one of the six multi-member constituencies of the Althing, the national legislature of Iceland. The constituency was established in 2003 when the existing Reykjavík constituency was split into two. The constituency currently elects nine of the 63 members of the Althing using the open party-list proportional representation electoral system. At the 2021 parliamentary election it had 45,716 registered electors.
Óttarr Olaf Proppé is a former Icelandic politician. He is a musician, actor, former Reykjavík City Councilor and former Member of Parliament. Óttarr was elected chairman of the party in 2015. He was a member of the rock band HAM in the years 1988–1994, as well as being the lead singer of the rock-cabaret band Dr. Spock. He also starred in several movies, including Sódóma Reykjavík from 1992, and Nói Albinói and Angels of the Universe from 2000. He made a guest appearance with the band Pollapönk during the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 in Denmark, singing "No Prejudice" ending up 8th in the semi-final with 61, resulting in them progressing to the final finishing in 15th with 58 points, being Iceland's best result since 2009.
Björt Ólafsdóttir is an Icelandic politician who represented Bright Future in the Althing 2013-17 and is its current chairperson. She served as the Minister for the Environment and Natural Resources of Iceland from January to November 2017.
The following lists events that happened in 1990 in Iceland.
The following lists events that happened in 1954 in Iceland.
The following lists events that happened in 1950 in Iceland.
Kolbeinn Birgir Finnsson is an Icelandic professional footballer who plays for Danish club Lyngby and the Iceland national team as a defender or midfielder. He has played domestic football in Iceland, the Netherlands, England, Germany and Denmark.
Brynjar Níelsson is an Icelandic politician who was a member of the Althing for the Reykjavík North constituency from 2013 to 2016 and the Reykjavík South constituency from 2016 to 2021, representing for the Independence Party.
Pétur Georg Markan is an Icelandic theologian, politician and former footballer. He played for several seasons in the Icelandic top-tier Úrvalsdeild karla for Fjölnir, Valur and Víkingur. In 2013, he was a member of Alþingi for the Social Democratic Alliance.
Hildur Knútsdóttir is an Icelandic writer and politician. In 2016, she won the Icelandic Literary Prize for children's books for her novel Vetrarhörkur. The book has appeared in French as Dernier hiver (2018) and in Czech as Krvavá zima (2018).
Lenya Rún Taha Karim is an Icelandic politician for the Pirate Party.
Black Sands is an Icelandic crime-drama television series created by Aldís Amah Hamilton, Andri Óttarsson, and Ragnar Jónsson. It is directed by Baldvin Zophoníasson. The show premiered on Stöð 2 on 25 December 2021.
