Music of Iceland

In Icelandic literature, a ríma (, literally "a rhyme", pl. rímur, ) is an epic poem written in any of the so-called rímnahættir (, "rímur meters"). They are rhymed, they alliterate and consist of two to four lines per stanza. The plural, rímur, is either used as an ordinary plural, denoting any two or more rímur, but is also used for more expansive works, containing more than one ríma as a whole. Thus Ólafs ríma Haraldssonar denotes an epic about Ólafr Haraldsson in one ríma, while Sigurður Breiðfjörð's '''' are a multi-part epic on Numa Pompilius.

Söngvakeppnin (known from 1986–1989 as Söngvakeppni sjónvarpsstöðva and in 1981, 1983 and 1990–2012 as Söngvakeppni sjónvarpsins, ) was an annual music competition organised by Icelandic public broadcaster (RÚV) to determine for the Eurovision Song Contest.

overview of musical traditions in Iceland

2005 Icelandic documentary film directed by Ari Alexander Ergis Magnusson

Icelandic music chart

Ferskeytt (literally 'four-cornered') is an Icelandic stanzaic poetic form. It is a kind of quatrain, and probably first attested in fourteenth-century rímur such as Ólafs ríma Haraldssonar. It remains one of the dominant metrical forms in Icelandic versifying to this day.