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Iceland is a volcanic island in the North Atlantic with more sheep than people. Sagas were the original prestige TV here — black beaches, geysers, winters that never quite end — and filmmakers still come for landscapes that need no effects. The Northman bled on its shores; Walter Mitty skateboarded them. Open Iceland on the StoryTerra map and filter its stories by any era.

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10 famous stories set in Iceland

Live snapshot of the top 10 most popular catalogue items (2026-09-05). Click any card to open this entry on the live map.

Browse 50 books, 79 movies, 3 TV shows and 11 games set in Iceland.

The Northman

The Northman

New Regency Pictures-Focus Features-Perfect World Pictures-Square Peg
movie

Prince Amleth is on the verge of becoming a man when his father is brutally murdered by his uncle who kidnaps the boy's mother. Two decades later Amleth is now a Viking who's on a mission to save his mother kill his…

Setting: IcelandTime Period: Viking Age
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

TSG Entertainment-Big Screen Productions-Down Productions-Red Hour
movie

A timid magazine photo manager who lives life vicariously through daydreams embarks on a true-life adventure when a negative goes missing.

Setting: New York, USA; Iceland; AfghanistanTime Period: 2013
Shadow of the Colossus

Shadow of the Colossus

game

An open-world action/adventure game in which a young wanderer, along with a stolen magical sword and his steed companion, trespasses a cursed land, makes a deal with an ancient being to bring a sacrificial victim back…

Setting: Iceland;PatagoniaTime Period: Fantasy: Mythological Era
Die Another Day

Die Another Day

Eon Productions-Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer-Danjaq
movie

James Bond is sent to investigate the connection between a North Korean terrorist and a diamond mogul who is funding the development of an international space weapon.

Setting: North Korea; Cuba; London, UK; IcelandTime Period: 2000s
Journey to the Center of the Earth

Journey to the Center of the Earth

Cooga Mooga-Joseph M. Schenck Enterprises-20th Century Fox
movie

An Edinburgh professor and assorted colleagues follow an explorer's trail down an extinct Icelandic volcano to the earth's center.

Setting: Iceland; Earth's CoreTime Period: Sci-Fi: 1959
Woman at War

Woman at War

Slot Machine-Vintage Pictures-Solar Media Entertainment-Gulldrengurinn-Köggull Filmworks
movie

Halla declares a one-woman-war on the local aluminium industry. She is prepared to risk everything to protect the pristine Icelandic Highlands she loves… Until an orphan unexpectedly enters her life.

Setting: IcelandTime Period: 2018
Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga

Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga

Gary Sanchez Productions
movie

Two small-town aspiring musicians chase their pop star dreams at a global music competition where high stakes scheming rivals and onstage mishaps test their bond.

Setting: Iceland; Rotterdam, NetherlandsTime Period: Contemporary
Pawn Sacrifice

Pawn Sacrifice

Gail Katz Productions-PalmStar Media
movie

American chess champion Bobby Fischer prepares for a legendary match-up against Russian Boris Spassky.

Setting: IcelandTime Period: 1972
Lamb

Lamb

Film i Väst-Chimney Sweden-Madants-Chimney Poland-Black Spark Film & TV-Go to Sheep-Rabbit Hole Productions
movie

An Icelandic couple live with their herd of sheep on a beautiful but remote farm. When they discover a mysterious newborn on their land they decide to keep it and raise it as their own. This unexpected development and…

Setting: IcelandTime Period: Contemporary
Sans Soleil

Sans Soleil

Argos Films
movie

"He wrote me..." A woman narrates the thoughts of a world traveler meditations on time and memory expressed in words and images from places as far-flung as Japan Guinea-Bissau Iceland and San Francisco.

Setting: Japan; Guinea-Bissau; Iceland; San Francisco, USATime Period: 1980s

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