Archive for May, 2013
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Don’t Feed The Ducks!
29 May 2013The City of Reykjavik is asking people not to feed the ducks at The Pond (Tjörnin) during the summer months,…
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How Odd
27 May 2013Sometimes it just takes one word to send you off on a linguistic journey – in this case it led…
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That’s Awesome!
24 May 2013There are many different ways to express how awesome something is in Icelandic. Some of the more common ones are…
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Hay There
20 May 2013The snow in Northern Iceland is taking longer than normal to go away this year, which is having an adverse…
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The Saga Of Carl
18 May 2013Iceland will feature prominently in Sunday’s episode of The Simpsons entitled “The Saga Of Carl”… 🙂 When Homer and his…
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Music
15 May 2013Of Monsters and Men played the Paramount in Seattle last night, so a music-themed post seemed appropriate 🙂 I had…
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Carry And Fight
13 May 2013Two verbs, distinguished by a single letter, with very similar conjugations in the present tense. One strong, one weak…some i-shift,…
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Who’s In Charge Here?
10 May 2013With the recent elections in Iceland and upcoming changes in leadership, I thought it would be good to review vocabulary…
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Whose Leif Is It Anyway?
08 May 2013It turns out that the term “Leifsstöð“, which everyone in Iceland uses to refer to that airport in Keflavík, is…
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Dances With Vikings
06 May 2013A recent article on RÚV talks about Danish archaeological research showing that a Viking-age woman has ties to North American…