Logo
Unionpedia
Communication
Get it on Google Play
New! Download Unionpedia on your Android™ device!
Free
Faster access than browser!
 

Public holidays in Iceland

Index Public holidays in Iceland

Public holidays in Iceland are established by the act of Parliament (Alþingi). The holidays are currently x, two of which are only holidays after noon (although many workers get the whole day off). [1]

30 relations: Ash Wednesday, Öskudagur, Þrettándinn, Beer Day (Iceland), Boxing Day, Christmas, Christmas Eve, Easter, Easter Monday, Epiphany (holiday), Feast of the Ascension, First Day of Summer, Good Friday, Iceland, Icelandic Language Day, Icelandic National Day, Jónsmessa, Maundy Thursday, May Day, Mother's Day, Moveable feast, New Year's Day, New Year's Eve, Palm Sunday, Pentecost, Shrove Monday, Shrove Tuesday, Sunday, Thorlac's mass, Whit Monday.

Ash Wednesday

Ash Wednesday is a Christian holy day of prayer, fasting and repentance.

New!!: Public holidays in Iceland and Ash Wednesday · See more »

Öskudagur

Öskudagur is an Icelandic holiday (Ash Wednesday) when children dress up in costumes and sing songs for candy.

New!!: Public holidays in Iceland and Öskudagur · See more »

Þrettándinn

Þrettándinn, also known as Thirteenth Night, is an Icelandic holiday celebrated on 6 January.

New!!: Public holidays in Iceland and Þrettándinn · See more »

Beer Day (Iceland)

In Iceland, Beer Day (Bjórdagurinn or Bjórdagur) is celebrated every year on March 1, honoring the elimination of the 74-year prohibition of beer.

New!!: Public holidays in Iceland and Beer Day (Iceland) · See more »

Boxing Day

Boxing Day is a holiday celebrated on the day after Christmas Day.

New!!: Public holidays in Iceland and Boxing Day · See more »

Christmas

Christmas is an annual festival commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ,Martindale, Cyril Charles.

New!!: Public holidays in Iceland and Christmas · See more »

Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve is the evening or entire day before Christmas Day, the festival commemorating the birth of Jesus.

New!!: Public holidays in Iceland and Christmas Eve · See more »

Easter

Easter,Traditional names for the feast in English are "Easter Day", as in the Book of Common Prayer, "Easter Sunday", used by James Ussher and Samuel Pepys and plain "Easter", as in books printed in,, also called Pascha (Greek, Latin) or Resurrection Sunday, is a festival and holiday celebrating the resurrection of Jesus from the dead, described in the New Testament as having occurred on the third day of his burial after his crucifixion by the Romans at Calvary 30 AD.

New!!: Public holidays in Iceland and Easter · See more »

Easter Monday

Easter Monday is the day after Easter Sunday and is a holiday in some countries.

New!!: Public holidays in Iceland and Easter Monday · See more »

Epiphany (holiday)

Epiphany, also Theophany, Little Christmas, or Three Kings' Day, is a Christian feast day that celebrates the revelation of God incarnate as Jesus Christ.

New!!: Public holidays in Iceland and Epiphany (holiday) · See more »

Feast of the Ascension

The Feast of the Ascension of Jesus Christ, also known as Holy Thursday, Ascension Day, or Ascension Thursday, commemorates the Christian belief of the bodily Ascension of Jesus into heaven.

New!!: Public holidays in Iceland and Feast of the Ascension · See more »

First Day of Summer

The First Day of Summer (sumardagurinn fyrsti) is an annual public holiday in Iceland held on the first Thursday after 18 April and between April 19th to April 25th.

New!!: Public holidays in Iceland and First Day of Summer · See more »

Good Friday

Good Friday is a Christian holiday celebrating the crucifixion of Jesus and his death at Calvary.

New!!: Public holidays in Iceland and Good Friday · See more »

Iceland

Iceland is a Nordic island country in the North Atlantic, with a population of and an area of, making it the most sparsely populated country in Europe.

New!!: Public holidays in Iceland and Iceland · See more »

Icelandic Language Day

Icelandic Language Day (dagur íslenskrar tungu or "day of the Icelandic tongue") is celebrated on 16 November each year in Iceland.

New!!: Public holidays in Iceland and Icelandic Language Day · See more »

Icelandic National Day

Icelandic National Day (Þjóðhátíðardagurinn, the day of the nation's celebration) is an annual holiday in Iceland which commemorates the foundation of The Republic of Iceland on 17 June 1944.

New!!: Public holidays in Iceland and Icelandic National Day · See more »

Jónsmessa

Jónsmessa, also known as Midsummer Night, is an Icelandic holiday celebrated on June 24.

New!!: Public holidays in Iceland and Jónsmessa · See more »

Maundy Thursday

Maundy Thursday (also known as Holy Thursday, Covenant Thursday, Great and Holy Thursday, Sheer Thursday, and Thursday of Mysteries, among other names) is the Christian holy day falling on the Thursday before Easter.

New!!: Public holidays in Iceland and Maundy Thursday · See more »

May Day

May Day is a public holiday usually celebrated on 1 May.

New!!: Public holidays in Iceland and May Day · See more »

Mother's Day

Mother's Day is a celebration honoring the mother of the family, as well as motherhood, maternal bonds, and the influence of mothers in society.

New!!: Public holidays in Iceland and Mother's Day · See more »

Moveable feast

A moveable feast or movable feast is an observance in a Christian liturgical calendar that occurs on a different date (relative to the dominant civil or solar calendar) in different years.

New!!: Public holidays in Iceland and Moveable feast · See more »

New Year's Day

New Year's Day, also called simply New Year's or New Year, is observed on January 1, the first day of the year on the modern Gregorian calendar as well as the Julian calendar.

New!!: Public holidays in Iceland and New Year's Day · See more »

New Year's Eve

In the Gregorian calendar, New Year's Eve (also known as Old Year's Day or Saint Sylvester's Day in many countries), the last day of the year, is on 31 December which is the seventh day of Christmastide.

New!!: Public holidays in Iceland and New Year's Eve · See more »

Palm Sunday

Palm Sunday is a Christian moveable feast that falls on the Sunday before Easter.

New!!: Public holidays in Iceland and Palm Sunday · See more »

Pentecost

The Christian feast day of Pentecost is seven weeks after Easter Sunday: that is to say, the fiftieth day after Easter inclusive of Easter Sunday.

New!!: Public holidays in Iceland and Pentecost · See more »

Shrove Monday

Shrove Monday, sometimes known as Collopy Monday, Rose Monday, Merry Monday or Hall Monday, is a Christian observance falling on the Monday before Ash Wednesday every year.

New!!: Public holidays in Iceland and Shrove Monday · See more »

Shrove Tuesday

Shrove Tuesday (also known in Commonwealth countries and Ireland as Pancake Tuesday or Pancake day) is the day in February or March immediately preceding Ash Wednesday (the first day of Lent), which is celebrated in some countries by consuming pancakes.

New!!: Public holidays in Iceland and Shrove Tuesday · See more »

Sunday

Sunday is the day of the week between Saturday and Monday.

New!!: Public holidays in Iceland and Sunday · See more »

Thorlac's mass

Mass of St.

New!!: Public holidays in Iceland and Thorlac's mass · See more »

Whit Monday

Whit Monday or Pentecost Monday (also known as Monday of the Holy Spirit) is the holiday celebrated the day after Pentecost, a moveable feast in the Christian calendar.

New!!: Public holidays in Iceland and Whit Monday · See more »

Redirects here:

Bun Day, Commerce Day, Seamen's Day, Self-governance Day.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_holidays_in_Iceland

OutgoingIncoming
Hey! We are on Facebook now! »