Western Christmas tradition centers on the jolly figure of Santa Claus and his workshop manned by adorably cheery elves at the North Pole. Fantasy is dominated by figures like J.R.R. Tolkien’s ...

Little elves are a big deal in Iceland, where surveys and polls over the years have famously proclaimed that more than half of the population is at least open to the idea that these supernatural ...

IN Arnaldur Indridason’s crime novels the Icelandic gloom is more than a meteorological condition. For two decades now Indridason has been publishing spare, haunted novels full of pain and grief and ...

The funny thing is that your average Briton is far more tolerant of chilly living temperatures as +10C would be a state of emergency in Nordic societies Click to expand... I don't understand what you ...