![]() ![]() ![]() While Sweden, Denmark and Norway have a seemingly-endless parade of authors to offer, Iceland's noir qualities seem overlooked with only a couple of exceptions. It is also, despite being part of Scandinavia, much less on the "ScandiCrime" radar than it should be. It's also a place which doesn't appear often in the annals of history after the population converted en masse to Christianity around the year 1000 - until recent years when the entire country went bankrupt in one of the more spectacular offshoots of the Global Financial Crisis. Iceland is, to put it mildly, a harsh and unforgiving place. Even the landscape is seemingly from another planet - lava plains and thermal pools predominate, with the island featuring a seemingly endless collection of jagged fjords on its rugged coastline. This is an island with some 300,000 inhabitants, almost all of whom are direct descendants of the Vikings, and who speak a language closer to the Old Norse of legends and sagas than anything else spoken today. The country it governs - Iceland - is like nowhere else on the planet. Reykjavík is the northernmost capital city in the world, just a short distance south of the Arctic Circle. ![]()
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