Although Björk is in many ways a cosmopolitan figure in pop music, what she is known for is not so much her multicultural outlook as her connection to Iceland, reflecting a marked strain of “borealism” – that is, exoticisation – in the international reception of her work. The aim of this article is to investigate the extent to which Björk’s music can be regarded as national music, or in her own words, as “modern Icelandic pop music”. The patriotic album Homogenic (1997), and more specifically the song “Jóga” – conceived as a “sort of National Anthem” – serve as the starting point for this investigation, which examines over the course of her career the Icelandic musical roots that Björk draws on to create her work, the relationship to text and language, as well as the question of timbre and sound space as evocative of Icelandic nature. These aspects combine throughout Björk’s albums, resulting in a music in which the question of place is fundamentally linked to a dimension of national identity.