Icelandic horses may be the purest horse breed in the world. The horses of the Vikings; they have been isolated in this ancient Nordic country for a thousand years.

This is some real horseplay. Icelanders hoping to tune into the National Icelandic Horse Competition, which ends Sunday, are being swindled on social media by unknown parties collecting payment in ...

I wasn’t making my way by horse in a daring trek from the capital, Reykjavik, in the southwest to the northeast corner of Iceland 200 miles away, crossing ice cold rivers, lava fields and snowbanks.

I nudged the horse into the bitterly cold gale force wind, turning my head to keep the blowing snow out of my eyes. A wind greater than 39 mph qualifies as a gale, and this wind clearly made the cut.