The Icelandic Thinkers

Hello my name is Benedikt Guðmundsson and I’m going to tell you a little bit about Icelanders and our skills.

Icelanders are proud people and often not afraid to show it (until recently). Though we are a tiny island in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean we have accomplished much and everything we do we do it well.

It’s a small country with population of 300,000, so there is no heavy traffic here. It’s easy to travel cross country, except for snow in the wintertime, if you stay on the interstate 1 coz it goes around the country and enters or passes most of the main towns. Icelandic drivers are for most part good drivers. But it can be easy for some to forget themselves out in traffic and that’s when most accidents start to happen.

Icelandic people are hard working people and always have been. We have all kinds of jobs here and there always getting better and more interesting. Our nation has been thru harsh times but we have always worked thru them to find better times and better living situation.

Icelandic musicians are really creative and our music is as good as other world music, all from easy listening music to heavy metal or even death metal. Icelandic musicians are being recognized, for example: Björk, Sigurrós, Ólafur Arnalds, Sign, Mugison and Lights on the Highway. But the Icelandic music market is really small so really few musicians can live of their music alone