the Old Bookstore in Flateyri

We are happy to announce, that we are after 109 years in action we finally have a logo!

Running a store, isolated in the Westfjords in a tiny village did never really call for a logo for the store. Everybody in the village knew how we were and what we sold.

But now with more people coming through our village, and with our online store and own products, we felt it was a time to give the oldest original store in Iceland a logo.

The logo was designed by Goddur, that was influenced by the work of Guðmundur from Mosdal.

Guðmundur from Mosdal design and carved out the sign that is still above the entrance to the store in the year 1919.

The Englsih page has been inactive during the Covid-19 situation due to few tourist from other countries. We opened new Icelandic page that has been more active this summer. However we have been open the whole summer and will be open for few more weeks or months more, it all depend on the traffic in this strange time.

We just want to remind our guest to stay safe, sanitize and keep social distance. The store has, in it´s 106 years survived two world wars, the Spanish flu, volcanic eruptions and avalanches and we will go through this Covid-19 period.

For further information about the Covid-19 situation in Iceland check out www.covid.is/english

See you in the Bookstore, The oldest original store in Iceland,
Eyþór Jóvinsson
store manager.

Last year was a good year for the old bookstore that was running its 105th year! The Store was open for 156 days last year and we had 12,280 visitors. That is an average of 79 visitors a day. Thous visitors bought all in all 5,700 kg of books, almost 500gr of books per visitors or around one book per person.

The store will be open every Saturday from 12:00-16:00 this winter until we open for the summer, around 15th of may 2020.

This is Bernharður Guðmundsson, he droped by at the Old bookstore to day. His grandfather was a farmer in Önundarfjörður and was a regular customer in the Bookstore back in the days.

While looking up his grandfather purchase history, we found out that in the year 1919, he owed the Bookstore 1,500kr.

His grandson decided to paid his debt today, 100 years later.

Thanks for the business!

And the summer isn´t even over yet!

Little did Anton and Tiffany know when they bought a copy of the Ielandic Sagas, but doing so, they became our 10,000 customers this summer!

Thank you all for stopping by this summer!

Yes, we are still alive. The summer has been great so far, awesome weather and many great people have stopped by at our store this summer. We have been so busy that we haven´t had any time to update our website, even though the plan was to put up some news every week!

John Rogers from Grapevine dropped by this summer and you can read about his visit here on Grapevine.

Finally our website is up and running. The Old Bookstore in Flateyri has been in business since 1914, so we think it is about time to publish our first website in the year 2019!