Iceland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 compete with at the Eurovision Song Contest. "Lífið kviknar á ný" was performed in English as "Up and Away", while "Enga fordóma" was performed in a mix of Icelandic and English. Televoting solely selected "Enga fordóma" performed by Pollapönk as the winner in the second round. As winners of the competition, Pollapönk won a monetary prize of 1 million Icelandic króna and the right to represent Iceland in Copenhagen. During the semi-final allocation draw on 20 January 2014 at the Copenhagen City Hall, Iceland was drawn to compete in the first half of the first semi-final on 6 May 2014.
Geology of Iceland frames from around the world suggests that the Iceland hotspot's path differs from older investigations. Many older rocks (dated 75-70 mya) located throughout the area to the west are not only located near hypothesized Iceland hotspot paths, but also attributable to hotspot volcanism, which implies a plausible case for the Iceland hotspot being much older than the earliest rifting of what is now the northernmost Northeast Atlantic. If such a hypothesis is true, then much of the rifting in the North Atlantic was likely caused by thinning and bulging of the crust as opposed to more direct influence by the