#icelandic — Public Fediverse posts

Here's the song structure. Slugging to With You by Daði Freyr. The pinch harmonics are wild. Nice depth. Try the groove. Source:

https://chordyes.com/chord/dadi-freyr-with-you

#guitarpassion #guitarobsession #icelandic #malevocalist #synthpop #dance #quirky

Chords are up for this. Kicking off with Bored by Laufey. Has that infectious pop hook. Get your pedals ready. Post:

https://chordyes.com/chord/laufey-bored

#guitarlessonsonline #learnguitar #icelandic #femalevocalist #jazz #minimal #sad

Icelandic 'search' vs 'find': leita does it all — concrete objects, people, abstract goals like meaning or work. But 'find' is fragmented: finna covers most, reka marks surprise finds, uppgötva for discoveries, hitta for meetings. A neat typological case of asymmetry.

📄 https://nevmenandr.github.io/portfolio/assets/pdf/iceland_search.pdf

#Icelandic #Linguistics #Semantics #Typology #CognitiveScience

#Iceland
#Icelandic #Language
#Íslenska
#Glonzo
#LookWhatYouWentAndStarted

Gódan daginn

#BonDia
Idioma: #Icelandic
#BondDia

Vestrahorn from the rear by Nick L

https://tmblr.co/Z7VXvxjpKRBOWa00

#stokksnes #stokkness #iceland #brunnhorn #vestrahorn #vesturhorn #klifatindur #kambhorn #sea #landscape #seascape #clouds #icelandic #canonr5 #flickr #thingsdavidlikes

So, this is Iceland, huh? Tolerant Iceland? Ray are you done with your guitar yet?

"#Iceland is a nation that has always known how to keep its stories alive, from the medieval sagas to the living oral traditions that shaped its literature and language. But its more recent #history of #Jewish exile has gone largely untold for nearly a century until now — as #scholars have worked both to recover the #music that #Nazi persecution scattered across the globe and reconstruct an #Icelandic #musical history that offers a painful reminder of the country’s #Holocaust history.

The #musicians’ #story is the subject of a newly #translated #book, “Music at World’s End: Three Refugee Musicians from Nazi #Germany and Their Contribution to Iceland’s Music Life,” by #Icelandic #musicologist #ÁrniHeimirIngólfsson. It was #published in #English this year by #SUNYPress following the Icelandic edition in 2024.

The #book reconstructs the three refugees’ individual pathways to Iceland."

https://www.jta.org/2026/08/10/global/how-3-jewish-refugees-from-the-nazis-built-icelands-classical-music-scene-from-scratch

Gódan daginn

#BonDia
Idioma: #Icelandic
#BondDia

W O R D
🇮🇸 Icelandic: Buxur
🇬🇧 English: Pants
🏷️ Noun (feminine)

E X A M P L E S E N T E N C E
🇮🇸 Icelandic: Ég keypti nýjar buxur í gær.
🇬🇧 English: I bought new pants yesterday.

G R A M M A R
📝 Plural noun. Definite form: buxurnar. Often used with adjectives in plural form.

#LearnIcelandic #Icelandic #LanguageLearning #Íslenska

Gódan daginn

#BonDia
Idioma: #Icelandic
#BondDia

The last part of this pull quote is the actual story. Not all the quaint bullshit I was excited about.

"By 2024, the community had outgrown its rented rooms and church basements and purchased the building that became the new #Jewish center, roughly tying one in #Fairbanks, #Alaska, as the northernmost #Chabad houses in the world. The building sits in #Reykjavik’s compact downtown, just blocks from the iconic #RainbowStreet and #Harpa #OperaHouse that make the city one of the most Instagram-friendly sites in the world.

In a city that caters to tourists, and for a community built largely from #immigrants, longtime #Icelandic Jewish families, and people who married into Icelandic life, the new center represents something rare: a shared physical home.

“It’s been clear for a long time that we need a home for our community,” said one Jewish resident in #Iceland, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because not all of his colleagues know he is Jewish."

https://www.jta.org/2026/07/09/global/europes-smallest-jewish-community-gets-a-home-of-its-own-complete-with-geothermal-mikvah

W O R D
🇮🇸 Icelandic: Kind
🇬🇧 English: Sheep
🏷️ Adjective

E X A M P L E S E N T E N C E
🇮🇸 Icelandic: Hún er mjög kind hjá börnum.
🇬🇧 English: The sheep is blsck,

G R A M M A R
📝 The word 'kind' in Icelandic is a masculine noun that can be used in a definitive and indefinite form.

#LearnIcelandic #Icelandic #LanguageLearning #Íslenska

Thank you, Iceland, for producing this wonderfully fun, creative musical weirdo 😃👏
If you liked 80s synth-pop & really bizarre music videos - you're going to love this dude & his strange MV 😁🎶❤️🎵
You're welcome!

#DaðiFreyr - I'm Out and I Wanna Go Home (Official Music Video)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ebAvkqpA9MU

#NowPlaying #music #MusicVideo #WeirdlyWonderful #GenX #Icelandic #StraightOuttaIceland #FunFunnyTunes