Cool trip!!!
A few things to help you get in the mood!!
One of my all-time favorite songs is by an Icelandic band ... Stralfur by Sigur Ros. I have NO idea what they're saying, but the music is absolutely beautiful. Here's a link to a YouTube video of the song with some lovely Icelandic views.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQuki_8COXs
It's a song I heard from one of my all-time favorite (and little known) movies ... "The girl in the Cafe". Brilliant movie filmed mostly in Iceland (the characters are Brits attending a G8).
And a few fun Icelandic facts ...
All given names come from a National Registry and have to be approved. You cannot name your baby "Paper" or "Moon Unit" just because you feel like it.
The surname is a compilation of the fathers (or mothers) given name followed by "son" or "dottir".
Because there are no surnames common to a family, the telephone book is listed by the given name - and it also gives the profession of the person (to avoid confusion!). So if Jon has a daughter named Ingrid ... she is listed as "Ingrid Jonsdottir" in the phone book.
Also because there are no family surnames, it is common to have a family unit of father/mother/son/daughter - each with a different "surname".