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He was a film critic in a popular Icelandic radio program on Radíó X and hosted another program called Hugleikur on the same station. Hugleikur is known for all kinds of visual and video art. He is most famous for his satirical comics filled with black humor, which have been published as books and in The Reykjavik Grapevine Magazine.
He wrote for several Icelandic TV programmes, including Mið-Ísland and Hversdagsreglur. He has also appeared in the UK on BBC's Mock the Week. [7] In November 2020, his stand-up show Eagle Fire Iron was released as a vinyl record by Monkey Barrel Records. [8] In December 2020 another of his shows, Pardon My Icelandic, aired on Netflix. [9]
Woman at War (Kona fer í stríð, literally Woman goes to battle) is a 2018 Icelandic-Ukrainian comedy-drama film written, produced and directed by Benedikt Erlingsson, and starring Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir. It premiered in the Critics' Week section at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival.
Military humor is humor based on stereotypes of military life. Military humor portrays a wide range of characters and situations in the armed forces . It comes in a wide array of cultures and tastes , making use of burlesque , cartoons , comic strips , double entendre , exaggeration , jokes , parody , gallows humor , pranks , ridicule and sarcasm .
The sagas of Icelanders (Icelandic: Íslendingasögur, modern Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈislɛndiŋkaˌsœːɣʏr̥]), also known as family sagas, are a subgenre, or text group, of Icelandic sagas. They are prose narratives primarily based on historical events that mostly took place in Iceland in the ninth, tenth, and early eleventh centuries ...
There are two ways to watch “Cop Secret,” a wild-ride Icelandic satire of Hollywood action films. One is the classic “switch off your brain” strategy, which allows for an easy digestion of ...
An illustration of Hákon, King of Norway, and Skule Bårdsson, from Flateyjarbók. In the period from the settlement of Iceland, in the 870s, until it became part of the realm of the Norwegian King, military defences of Iceland consisted of multiple chieftains (Goðar) and their free followers (þingmenn, bændur or liðsmenn) organised as per standard Nordic military doctrine of the time in ...
As Yoav Tirosh describes himself on his Bored Panda profile: “I'm a researcher of sagas and Icelandic history. I make comics about Vikings, dragons, life in Iceland, and the silliest of puns.”