#icelandic — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #icelandic, aggregated by home.social.
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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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Hype for the Future 86K: Counties of Icelandic Minnesotans
Introduction Though Icelandic Minnesotans are extremely rare in the modern State of Minnesota, the vast majority of such Icelandic settlers were largely associated with three (3) counties in the State: Lyon, Lincoln, and Yellow Medicine. Each of these counties is south of the Minnesota River, or perhaps more accurately, southwest, broadly along the western line of the State with South Dakota. Identifying Icelandic Minnesotans Numerous early Minnesotan church records would have recorded […] -
Hverir Geothermal Area by Vagelis Pikoulas
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#geothermal #iceland #icelandic #hverir #landscape #scenery #scenic #nature #canon #r6 #r62 #r6ii #1435 #rf #august #summer #2025 #view #mountain #europe #travel #flickr #thingsdavidlikes
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While most European #languages have quite a similar word for #mathematics, #Faroese just has to be an exception with the word #støddfrøði 🙂 Together with #Icelandic #stærðfræði...
The noun comes from the words #stødd (quantity, dimensions) and #frøði (science, -ology).