{"id":843,"date":"2013-03-13T13:29:33","date_gmt":"2013-03-13T13:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/islenzka.net\/?p=843"},"modified":"2013-04-04T01:35:15","modified_gmt":"2013-04-04T01:35:15","slug":"dont-mess-with-icelandic-cats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/islenzka.net\/dont-mess-with-icelandic-cats\/","title":{"rendered":"Don’t Mess With Icelandic Cats"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Reykjavik<\/a><\/p>\n

If you’re a cat person, Reykjav\u00edk is your town. I remember on our first trip to Iceland sitting in the dining room of the hotel having breakfast, looking out at the streets filled with snow on a late-December morning…and seeing a cat just walking around like it was nothing. I think he gave a car a dirty look as it slid along the icy street. I guess everything that has managed to survive on that island for the past 1000 years has had to become tough, even the cats \ud83d\ude42 Heck, just last September there was a blizzard in northern Iceland that buried hundreds of sheep in the snow, and they were still finding them – alive<\/strong> – after several weeks and months. So yeah, the sheep too…<\/p>\n

From R\u00daV, we learn of Snati the Icelandic wonder cat<\/a>, who survived a fall from a 6th floor window…<\/p>\n

“K\u00f6tturinn Snati \u00fearf a\u00f0 ganga me\u00f0 spelkur n\u00e6stu vikurnar eftir a\u00f0 hann datt \u00fat um glugga, ni\u00f0ur sex h\u00e6\u00f0ir og \u00e1 steypta gangst\u00e9tt. D\u00fdral\u00e6knar s\u00f6g\u00f0u \u00f3tr\u00falegt a\u00f0 hann skyldi lifa falli\u00f0 af.”<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

“Snati the cat will need to walk with splints the next few weeks after he fell out of a window, and down six stories onto a concrete stairway. Veterinarians said it was unbelievable that he survived the fall.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Some vocabulary from the story:<\/p>\n

\r\nk\u00f6ttur m (kattar, kettir)\tcat\r\nspelkur f pl\t\t\tsplint\r\ndett\/a v (datt, duttu, dotti\u00f0)\tfall, drop\r\nsteypta gangst\u00e9tt\t\tconcrete stairway\r\nlifa af\t\t\t\tsurvive\r\ninnvortis bl\u00e6\u00f0ingar\t\tinternal bleeding\r\nbein n (-s, -)\t\t\tbone\r\nbragg\/ast v refl (-a\u00f0ist)\trecover, get better\r\n<\/pre>\n
The declension of k\u00f6ttur<\/strong> is all over the place \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
k\u00f6ttur (m) – cat<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/th>\nsingular<\/th>\nplural<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
nom<\/th>\nk\u00f6ttur<\/td>\nkettir<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
acc<\/th>\nk\u00f6tt<\/td>\nketti<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
dat<\/th>\nketti<\/td>\nk\u00f6ttum<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
gen<\/th>\nkattar<\/td>\nkatta<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n
The most obvious verb to take away is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
dett\/a – fall, drop<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/th>\npresent<\/th>\npast<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00e9g<\/th>\ndett<\/td>\ndatt<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00fe\u00fa<\/th>\ndettur<\/td>\ndast<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00fea\u00f0<\/th>\ndettur<\/td>\ndatt<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
vi\u00f0<\/th>\ndettum<\/td>\nduttum<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00fei\u00f0<\/th>\ndetti\u00f0<\/td>\nduttu\u00f0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00feau<\/th>\ndetta<\/td>\nduttu<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n
One phrase that is pretty common with detta<\/strong> is detta \u00ed hug<\/strong> (to occur to someone, to think of something, get the idea in one’s head), an impersonal expression which takes the dative:<\/p>\n
\u00deetta datt m\u00e9r ekki \u00ed hug.<\/strong> – That didn’t occur to me. \/ I didn’t think of that.<\/p>\n
\"Jaki\"<\/a>And this is Mary holding Jaki, the coolest cat in Heimaey, whom we met on a trip to Vestmannaeyjar. Jaki was following some girl to school it seemed, but I don’t think she was his owner as she wasn’t really paying him much attention, and then muttered something in Icelandic that I didn’t understand. \ud83d\ude42 We spent the rest of the day in Heimaey, and I swear as we were leaving for the airport we saw him again on the street somewhere else!<\/p>\n
And just one final cat reference – if you happen to be wandering down Austurstr\u00e6ti there’s a vintage clothing store called Gyllti k\u00f6tturinn<\/strong>. My wife found a great pair of boots there \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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