#icelandic — Public Fediverse posts
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In Iceland, the mystery of the poet, the tomb and the Danish grocer https://www.byteseu.com/2338223/ #1845 #Danish #Hallgrimsson #Iceland #Icelandic #JonasHallgrimsson #JonathanKLEIN #NorthAmerican #Stefansson #Stefansson"Now
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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
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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
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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
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Gódan daginn
#BonDia
Idioma: #Icelandic
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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
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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."
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Gódan daginn
#BonDia
Idioma: #Icelandic
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🇮🇸 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. -
Gódan daginn
#BonDia
Idioma: #Icelandic
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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."
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🇮🇸 Icelandic: Kind
🇬🇧 English: Sheep
🏷️ AdjectiveE 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. -
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
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Today is Iceland National Day 🙂
On this day in 1944, Iceland formally transitioned to a republic after 96% of the population voted in favor of adopting a new constitution and to end centuries-old ties with Denmark. The holiday also commemorates the birthday of Jón Sigurðsson, a leader of the 19th-century Icelandic independence movement.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icelandic_National_Day
Gleðilegan þjóðhátíðardag, Ísland!
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Svodufoss Waterfall by Vagelis Pikoulas
https://tmblr.co/Z7VXvxjVO_q20e00
#water #waterfall #waterfalls #snaefellsnes #iceland #icelandic #europe #travel #landscape #nature #view #august #summer #2025 #glacier #mountains #snow #day #canon #r6 #r62 #r6ii #24105mm #24105 #flickr #thingsdavidlikes
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🇮🇸 Icelandic: Sumar
🇬🇧 English: Summer
🏷️ NounE X A M P L E S E N T E N C E
🇮🇸 Icelandic: Sumarið var heitt og sólskin var mikið.
🇬🇧 English: The summer was hot and there was a lot of sunshine.G R A M M A R
📝 The word 'sumar' is a neuter noun. In Icelandic, nouns can take definite or indefinite forms. The indefinite form is 'sumar' (a summer), while the definite form is 'sumarið' (the summer). The definite form is often used when referring to a specific instance of the noun, as in the example sentence. Additionally, adjectives modifying 'sumar' must agree in gender, number, and case. Here, 'heitt' (hot) is in the neuter singular nominative form to match 'sumarið'. -
Today I learned a new word in Icelandic 🇮🇸 :
GervigreindardrullaI was able understand it by just breaking it into its pieces gervi, greind and drulla:
Artificial Intelligence Shit -
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🇮🇸 Icelandic: Rigning
🇬🇧 English: Raining
🏷️ Noun (feminine)E X A M P L E S E N T E N C E
🇮🇸 Icelandic: Í dag er mikil rigning úti.
🇬🇧 English: Today there is heavy rain outside.G R A M M A R
📝 The word 'rigning' is a feminine noun in Icelandic. It can be used in both definite and indefinite forms. In the indefinite form, it is 'rigning' (rain), and in the definite form, it is 'rigningin' (the rain). The definite form is often used when referring to a specific instance of rain, while the indefinite form is used for general reference or when the specific instance is not known or important. -
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🇮🇸 Icelandic: Hjóla
🇬🇧 English: Bike
🏷️ VerbE X A M P L E S E N T E N C E
🇮🇸 Icelandic: Ég hjóla oft til vinnu á sumrin.
🇬🇧 English: I often bike to work in the summer.G R A M M A R
📝 Að hjóla is an infinitive verb in Icelandic. When conjugated, it follows regular weak verb patterns. For example, in the present tense: ég hjóla (I bike), þú hjólar (you bike), hann/hún/það hjólar (he/she/it bikes). In the past tense: ég hjólaði (I biked), þú hjólaðir (you biked), hann/hún/það hjólaði (he/she/it biked).The verb itself does not change based on gender or definiteness. Instead, it agrees only with person (first, second, third) and number (singular or plural). This is why hann hjólar and hún hjólar use the same verb form — both are third person singular, even though the pronouns differ in gender.
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🇮🇸 Icelandic: Köttur
🇬🇧 English: Cat
🏷️ Noun (masculine)E X A M P L E S E N T E N C E
🇮🇸 Icelandic: Kötturinn er að drekka mjólkina.
🇬🇧 English: The cat is drinking the milk.G R A M M A R
📝 In Icelandic, nouns have definite and indefinite forms. 'Köttur' is the indefinite nominative singular form meaning 'a cat'. The definite form is 'kötturinn' (the cat), where '-inn' is the definite article suffix. The indefinite form is used when referring to a cat in general or the first time mentioning a specific cat, while the definite form is used when the cat has been previously specified or is known to both the speaker and listener. -
Hype for the Future 86J: Icelandic Minnesotans
Overview While Icelandic Minnesotans do not represent a significant share of the Scandinavian or otherwise Nordic population of the modern State of Minnesota, the insular North Atlantic community is highly representative of the cultural divide that has indirectly influenced the culture in the modern Upper Midwest of the United States. Though Minnesota is largely associated with the eastern neighbors of Iceland, particularly Norway and Denmark, Iceland is also of cultural significance in the […]https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/01/25/hype-for-the-future-86j-icelandic-minnesotans/
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Ég er að horfa á Time Travelers. #IcelandicI am watching for the Time Travelers.
❛❛ On the Night of the Total Lunar Eclipse,
Time Travelers descend in their space-time ships. ❜❜— For more images in this series, click on: #KronoWatch
#WelcomeTimeTravelers #2025Mar14 #Iceland #Breiðavík #Ísland #Íslenska #Unsplash #TimeTravel #Kronodon
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Við erum að horfa á Tímafarendur. #IcelandicWe are watching for the Time Travelers.
❛❛ On the Night of the Total Lunar Eclipse,
Time Travelers descend in their space-time ships. ❜❜— For more images in this series, click on: #KronoWatch
#WelcomeTimeTravelers #Iceland #2025Mar14 #Þjóðvegur #Icelandic #Íslenska #TimeTravel #Unsplash #Kronodon
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Við erum að horfa á Tímafarendur. #IcelandicWe are watching for the Time Travelers.
❛❛ On the Night of the Total Lunar Eclipse,
Time Travelers descend in their space-time ships. ❜❜— For more images in this series, click on: #KronoWatch
#WelcomeTimeTravelers #Iceland #2025Mar14 #Icelandic #Íslenska #TimeTravel #Unsplash #Kronodon
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Je fais un peu de place sur mon smartphone pour tester ça : https://www.ruv.is/english/2024-11-18-learners-should-talk-about-emotions-weather-costco-427798
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When Russia invaded Ukraine the #NordicCountries decided they didn't want Russia to take part in #EuroVision. This year people in #Iceland tried to get a similar stance against #Israel and were told that would be too political and EuroVision isn't political.
Now the singer of the #Icelandic entry is at best naive about the situation while the song's writer has said the everyone should boycott this year's competition.