{"id":4423,"date":"2013-11-27T18:27:16","date_gmt":"2013-11-27T18:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/islenzka.net\/?p=4423"},"modified":"2013-11-27T18:27:16","modified_gmt":"2013-11-27T18:27:16","slug":"biggest-christmas-tree-in-egilsstadir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/islenzka.net\/biggest-christmas-tree-in-egilsstadir\/","title":{"rendered":"Biggest Christmas Tree In Egilssta\u00f0ir"},"content":{"rendered":"

St\u00e6rsta j\u00f3latr\u00e9 Egilssta\u00f0a<\/strong><\/a>
\nBiggest Christmas tree in Egilssta\u00f0ir<\/p>\n

15 metra h\u00e1tt j\u00f3latr\u00e9 hefur veri\u00f0 sett upp \u00ed mi\u00f0b\u00e6 Egilssta\u00f0a, \u00fea\u00f0 h\u00e6sta hinga\u00f0 til. N\u00e6sth\u00e6sta tr\u00e9\u00f0 var h\u00e1lfum metra l\u00e6gra. Tr\u00e9\u00f0 er sitkagreni sem s\u00f3tt var \u00ed einkagar\u00f0 \u00e1 Egilsst\u00f6\u00f0um og voru taldir \u00ed \u00fev\u00ed 47 \u00e1rhringir.<\/strong><\/p>\n

A 15-meter high Christmas tree has been set up in the center of Egilssta\u00f0ir, the tallest to date. The next-tallest tree was a half-meter shorter. The tree is a Sitka spruce<\/a>, which was obtained from a private garden in Egilssta\u00f0ir and thought to be about 47 years old.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
a\u00f0 s\u00e6kja – to fetch, get<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/th>\npresent<\/th>\npast<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00e9g<\/th>\ns\u00e6ki<\/td>\ns\u00f3tti<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00fe\u00fa<\/th>\ns\u00e6kir<\/td>\ns\u00f3ttir<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00fea\u00f0<\/th>\ns\u00e6kir<\/td>\ns\u00f3tti<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
vi\u00f0<\/th>\ns\u00e6kjum<\/td>\ns\u00f3ttum<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00fei\u00f0<\/th>\ns\u00e6ki\u00f0<\/td>\ns\u00f3ttu\u00f0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00feau<\/th>\ns\u00e6kja<\/td>\ns\u00f3ttu<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n  <\/td>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
a\u00f0 telja – to believe, consider<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/th>\npresent<\/th>\npast<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00e9g<\/th>\ntel<\/td>\ntaldi<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00fe\u00fa<\/th>\ntelur<\/td>\ntaldir<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00fea\u00f0<\/th>\ntelur<\/td>\ntaldi<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
vi\u00f0<\/th>\nteljum<\/td>\nt\u00f6ldum<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00fei\u00f0<\/th>\ntelji\u00f0<\/td>\nt\u00f6ldu\u00f0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00feau<\/th>\ntelja<\/td>\nt\u00f6ldu<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

This short article is a great source of examples of the use of comparative and superlative adjectives. It has h\u00e1tt->h\u00e6sta<\/strong> (tall->tallest<\/em>), as well as the comparative shorter<\/em> (l\u00e6gra<\/strong>).<\/p>\n

The expression hinga\u00f0 til<\/strong> seemed new to me, but makes sense. Also note the prefix einka-<\/strong> which has come up before, it usually means private<\/em> , in this case a garden, or maybe park since we’re talking about trees. The age of the tree is actually expressed as \u00e1rhringir<\/strong> (year rings, or ring-years maybe?) in reference to the growth rings in a tree.<\/p>\n

Um langt \u00e1rabil var h\u00e6sta tr\u00e9\u00f0 sem fellt var \u00ed Hallormssta\u00f0arsk\u00f3gi sett upp vi\u00f0 verslun Kaupf\u00e9lags H\u00e9ra\u00f0sb\u00faa. Lj\u00f3sin \u00e1 tr\u00e9nu ver\u00f0a tendru\u00f0 \u00e1 laugardaginn.<\/strong><\/p>\n

For many years the tallest tree ever felled was in Hallormssta\u00f0arsk\u00f3gur, and set up by the Kaupf\u00e9lag H\u00e9ra\u00f0sb\u00faa store. The tree will be lit on Saturday.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n
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a\u00f0 tendra – to light<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/th>\npresent<\/th>\npast<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00e9g<\/th>\ntendra<\/td>\ntendra\u00f0i<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00fe\u00fa<\/th>\ntendrar<\/td>\ntendra\u00f0ir<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00fea\u00f0<\/th>\ntendrar<\/td>\ntendra\u00f0i<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
vi\u00f0<\/th>\ntendrum<\/td>\ntendru\u00f0um<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00fei\u00f0<\/th>\ntendri\u00f0<\/td>\ntendru\u00f0u\u00f0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00feau<\/th>\ntendra<\/td>\ntendru\u00f0u<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n  <\/td>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
bil (n) – time, period<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/th>\nsingular<\/th>\nplural<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
nom<\/th>\nbil<\/td>\nbil<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
acc<\/th>\nbil<\/td>\nbil<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
dat<\/th>\nbili<\/td>\nbilum<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
gen<\/th>\nbils<\/td>\nbila<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

The word \u00e1rabil<\/strong> actually seems a similar construction to \u00e1rhringur<\/strong> seen above. Here the word for year<\/em> (\u00e1r<\/strong>) is combining with the word for time, period<\/em> (bil<\/strong>). There are several expressions with bil<\/strong>, another very common one is um \u00fea\u00f0 bil<\/strong> – approximately<\/em>.<\/p>\n

When I first saw tendru\u00f0<\/strong> I thought it had to do with the stringing of the lights around the tree, but tendra<\/strong> has to do with lighting\/igniting<\/em> – had never seen this one before \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

\r\nh\u00e1r adj                high, tall\r\nsetja v (acc)          set, place\r\nhinga\u00f0 til             so far, hitherto\r\ngar\u00f0ur m               garden, park\r\nhringur m              circle, ring \r\n\u00e1ra\u00b7bil n              a period of years\r\n<\/pre>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
St\u00e6rsta j\u00f3latr\u00e9 Egilssta\u00f0a Biggest Christmas tree in Egilssta\u00f0ir 15 metra h\u00e1tt j\u00f3latr\u00e9 hefur veri\u00f0 sett upp \u00ed mi\u00f0b\u00e6 Egilssta\u00f0a, \u00fea\u00f0…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4431,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[3,13],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/islenzka.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4423"}],"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=4423"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/islenzka.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4432,"href":"https:\/\/islenzka.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4423\/revisions\/4432"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islenzka.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/islenzka.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islenzka.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islenzka.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}