{"id":4499,"date":"2013-12-24T11:19:29","date_gmt":"2013-12-24T11:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/islenzka.net\/?p=4499"},"modified":"2013-12-24T13:34:16","modified_gmt":"2013-12-24T13:34:16","slug":"ristadar-mondlur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/islenzka.net\/ristadar-mondlur\/","title":{"rendered":"Rista\u00f0ar M\u00f6ndlur!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having walked by these guys and purchased two bags, I can personally attest that the smell of these almonds roasting with sugar and cinnamon are irresistible, and they are quite delicious \ud83d\ude42 I think from now on this is going to be the scent I associate with the holidays &#8211; not that there&#8217;s anything wrong with skate \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>From the article:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mbl.is\/frettir\/innlent\/2013\/12\/23\/ristadar_mondlur_gledileg_jol\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>\u201eRista\u00f0ar m\u00f6ndlur! Gle\u00f0ileg j\u00f3l!\u201c<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>&#8220;Roasted almonds! Merry Christmas!&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Efst \u00ed Bankastr\u00e6tinu, sem \u00ed seinni t\u00ed\u00f0 hefur fengi\u00f0 uppnefni\u00f0 Fl\u00edspeysustr\u00e6ti, leynist ein skemmtilegasta vi\u00f0b\u00f3tin vi\u00f0 a\u00f0ventuundirb\u00faning mi\u00f0borgargesta \u00e1 s\u00ed\u00f0ari \u00e1rum.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>High up on Bank Street, which lately has gotten the nickname Fleece Sweater Street, is hidden the most interesting addition to city dwellers&#8217; advent preparations in the past few years.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00dear standa \u00feeir Mikael Marin\u00f3 Rivera, \u00c6var \u00d6rn Magn\u00fasson og Gu\u00f0mundur Hrafn Arngr\u00edmsson \u00ed \u00f6llum ve\u00f0rum og rista m\u00f6ndlur a\u00f0 d\u00f6nskum si\u00f0. Kanillyktina leggur yfir b\u00e6inn, og j\u00f3lastemningin ver\u00f0ur \u00f6rl\u00edti\u00f0 evr\u00f3pskari fyrir viki\u00f0. \u00deeir byrju\u00f0u a\u00f0 rista og selja m\u00f6ndlur fyrir fj\u00f3rum \u00e1rum.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>There stand Mikael Marin\u00f3 Rivera, \u00c6var \u00d6rn Magn\u00fasson and Gu\u00f0mundur Hrafn Arngr\u00edmsson in all kinds of weather, roasting almonds in the Danish style. The smell of cinnamon wafts over the town, and the Christmas mood turns a little bit European for the week. They started roasting ans selling almonds four years ago.<\/em><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<table class=\"islenzka-b\" width=\"250\" border=\"1\">\n<tr>\n<th colspan=\"3\">a\u00f0 rista &#8211; to toast, roast<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th width=\"15%\"><\/th>\n<th>present<\/th>\n<th>past<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>\u00e9g<\/th>\n<td>rista<\/td>\n<td>rista\u00f0i<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>\u00fe\u00fa<\/th>\n<td>ristar<\/td>\n<td>rista\u00f0ir<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>\u00fea\u00f0<\/th>\n<td>ristar<\/td>\n<td>rista\u00f0i<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>vi\u00f0<\/th>\n<td>ristum<\/td>\n<td>ristu\u00f0um<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>\u00fei\u00f0<\/th>\n<td>risti\u00f0<\/td>\n<td>ristu\u00f0u\u00f0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>\u00feau<\/th>\n<td>rista<\/td>\n<td>ristu\u00f0u<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<td>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td>\n<table class=\"islenzka-b\" width=\"250\" border=\"1\">\n<tr>\n<th colspan=\"3\">mandla (f) &#8211; almond<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th style=\"width:15%\"<\/th>\n<th>singular<\/th>\n<th>plural<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>nom<\/th>\n<td>mandla<\/td>\n<td>m\u00f6ndlur<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>acc<\/th>\n<td>m\u00f6ndlu<\/td>\n<td>m\u00f6ndlur<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>dat<\/th>\n<td>m\u00f6ndlu<\/td>\n<td>m\u00f6ndlum<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>gen<\/th>\n<td>m\u00f6ndlu<\/td>\n<td>mandla<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>Eftir a\u00f0 hafa veri\u00f0 \u00ed n\u00e1mi \u00ed Danm\u00f6rku \u00fe\u00f3tti \u00feeim eitthva\u00f0 vanta upp \u00e1 j\u00f3lastemninguna \u00ed borginni. Hugmyndin a\u00f0 m\u00f6ndlub\u00e1snum kvikna\u00f0i \u00ed \u00fatikennslu \u00ed S\u00e6mundarsk\u00f3la. \u201eSvo \u00e1kv\u00e1\u00f0um vi\u00f0 yfir einum kaffibolla \u00e1 kennarastofunni \u00ed S\u00e6mundarsk\u00f3la a\u00f0 pr\u00f3fa \u00feetta,\u201c segir Mikael Marin\u00f3.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>After having studied in Denmark they felt that something was lacking in the Christmas mood in the city. The idea for an almond stand came during camp at S\u00e6mundarsk\u00f3li. &#8220;So we decided over a cup of coffee in the teachers lounge at S\u00e6mundarsk\u00f3li to try it,&#8221; says Mikael Marin\u00f3.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The phrase <strong>\u00fe\u00f3tti \u00feeim eitthva\u00f0 vanta<\/strong> is a little tricky &#8211; the first half comes from the impersonal verb <strong>\u00feykja<\/strong> (<em>to think, consider something<\/em>). Phrases starting with <strong>m\u00e9r \u00feykkir&#8230;<\/strong> might be familiar. Here it&#8217;s just the past tense form with the 3rd person plural. The second part comes from <strong>vanta<\/strong>, which is another impersonal verb used to express need (<strong>mig vantar&#8230;<\/strong>) but here is used to mean that something is lacking.<\/p>\n<p>It seems that some of the best ideas arise over a cup of coffee! Gle\u00f0ileg j\u00f3l!<\/p>\n<pre>\r\nupp\u00b7nefni n             nickname\r\nfl\u00eds\u00b7peysa f            fleece sweater\r\nvi\u00f0b\u00f3t f                addition, extra\r\nundir\u00b7b\u00faningur m        preparation\r\nrista v                 toast\r\nmandla f                almond\r\nkanill m                cinnamon\r\nstemning f              mood, atmosphere\r\nb\u00e1s m                   stall\r\n<\/pre>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having walked by these guys and purchased two bags, I can personally attest that the smell of these almonds roasting&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4283,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[11,18],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/islenzka.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4499"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/islenzka.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/islenzka.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islenzka.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islenzka.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4499"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/islenzka.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4507,"href":"https:\/\/islenzka.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4499\/revisions\/4507"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islenzka.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/islenzka.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islenzka.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islenzka.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}