“Are you a couple, or?” I said.
“Well, we started to date–but then we found out we were cousins, so now we are just friends,” he said, as we looked out over Gullfoss Waterfall in Iceland.
Emily O'Dell in Iceland
Driving around Iceland with two new Icelandic friends we had made, we were getting our first lesson in how Icelanders navigate the awkward dating situations which commonly arise in a country of 320,000.
But now–technology has made life much easier for Icelanders like our friends. Because a new app, available on Android phones under ‘ÍslendingaApp SES(Beta),’ has been developed to prevent Icelanders from dating their relatives–by showing Icelanders how they are related to one another. Just one more example of technology bringing people together–and keeping them apart!
