Known as "torfbæir", these ingeniously designed homes helped settle one of Europe's least-hospitable environments. With its lonely lava fields, sheer bluffs and stark boulder-strewn plains, Iceland is ...

Throughout Iceland, travelers will find little black “turf houses” with grassy roofs, which often extend all the way to the ground on either side to form one continuous green plane. These traditional ...

A land of vast open spaces, steaming blue lagoons, geysers, and powerful volcanoes, Iceland is beautifully raw and remote, but not exactly hospitable to humans. When the Norse and British settlers ...

For winter contingencies, Deplar employs an armada of plows, snow-removers, and spiky-wheeled "Super Jeeps," as well as human ...

It’s called “aspirational travel,” and to be honest: I’ve been avoiding it for a while. What good is dreaming of adventure when it just feels so impossible? But I’ve evolved. Lately, I’m willing to ...

RECONSTRUCTED MEDIEVAL FARM IN ÞJÓRSÁRDALUR AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ICELANDIC TURF HOUSE BY GUÐMUNDUR ÓLAFSSON AND HÖRÐUR ÁGÚSTSSON ENGLISH TRANSLATION ...

Hidden in the Icelandic countryside lies a long-forgotten hobbit house, built in the ancient Viking turf style. Abandoned and untouched for centuries, it holds the secrets of a time long past.