The Season of the Witch - an Icelandic crime series

[kalmisto]

Häxans tid ( The Season of the Witch ), an Icelandic crime series on Swedish tv :
http://www.svt.se/haxans-tid/se-program ... start=true

The first episode was unfortunately nothing to write home about.

The tv series is based on a book. Here is some info and a review of the book in English :
http://52books.blogspot.se/2009/02/myst ... eason.html

And now a question: What does the Icelandic language sound like to you ? To me it sounds like a distant cousin of Finnish although the two languages are not related. Any other comments on the Icelandic language ?

[Pursuivant]

The "rythm" is the same... something about the vowels and intonation that makes it "sound right".
Then again RTE sounds like Finnish-Swedish but I just can't understand a word.