This Sunday we celebrate Konudagur or Women’s Day here in Iceland, it falls on the first day of Góa, which is the second-to-last winter month. Konudagur is an occasion for women to be pampered and well thought of by their husbands, as well as to celebrate the arrival of spring and the brighter days ahead.

On the occasion of that, we are offering 15% discount this weekend on Bylur sweater
and Bylur hat.

Use the code “kona” on our webshop to activate the discount.
The code is valid until the end of Sunday.

Happy Konudagur!

Ísafjörður nests under the steep, almost vertical, mountains of Skutuls fjord that rise directly from the sea. In the winter months when the sun is low in the sky, the inhabitants of Ísafjörður spend their days in the shade of the mountains, without seeing the sun. 

Lilja Sigurgeirsdóttir, 75, has lived in Ísafjörður her whole life – a total of 12 and a half years in darkness. "That's maybe why I do not find this strange," she says.

"The ‘Day of the Sun’ is when the sun first shines on Sólgata. On that day, I bake pancakes," says Lilja Sigurgeirsdóttir. Lilja lives in a small, red, 120-year-old house on Sólgata 2 (which in Icelandic means ‘sun road’) in the town of Ísafjörður in the Westfjords.

Lilja is being featured in our latest NORÐUR journal story.