Guð blessi Ísland

We were all watching, gathered round TV sets and computer screens in our workplace, in cafés and at home on that misty afternoon.

[6] A radio play of the same name by Símon Birgisson and Malte Scholz was broadcast by Útvarpsleikhúsið in September 2009 and an eponymous documentary film by Helgi Felixson premiered on the first anniversary of the speech.

[7] A music track entitled Guð blessi Ísland concludes the Crash-themed concept album Helvítis fokking funk by the Samúel Jón Samúelsson Big Band.

Svo bilaði spottinn og botninn var dottinn úr ballinu hressa, píslar- með -vottinn við peningaþvottinn menn pukruðust hlessa, breskur dró hrottinn upp hryðjuverksplottin er heift sauð í vessa og ei vildi Drottinn (sem er víst svo gott skinn) Ísaland blessa.

Then the string broke and the floor had fallen from the lively disco; people began whispering about the martyr at the money-laundering; the British ruffian, in whose blood boiled spite, cooked up the terrorism scheme; and the Lord (who’s of course such a good bloke) didn’t want to bless the Land of Ice.

Front page of Fréttablaðið , 6 October 2018, reprinting Geir Haarde's 'Guð blessi Ísland' speech a decade later, in the colors of the Icelandic flag.