It’s a german inside joke, explained in this video (in german).
There is a far right politician named Björn and who was mistakenly called Bernd by a local newspaper and got angry. To annoy him, a satire show calls him Bernd all the time. This caused enough confusion, that a public broadcaster messing up.
Edit: spelling
Björgúlfur or something, surely.
Also, is Iceland falling so far behind in racial stereotyping that they’d bring in a German to do it for them?
It’s a german inside joke, explained in this video (in german).
There is a far right politician named Björn and who was mistakenly called Bernd by a local newspaper and got angry. To annoy him, a satire show calls him Bernd all the time. This caused enough confusion, that a public broadcaster messing up.
Edit: spelling