Archive for April, 2018
Icelandic Idioms, Idioms Everywhere! Posted by Meg on Apr 18, 2018
Today, I thought we’d do something fun and build up some vocabulary. Let’s have a look at a few idioms that I recently learned, and see if you can guess what they mean! This phrase means simply to take on a difficult task, to struggle with something. This phrase means “to have a full tree”…
Can Folklore Express Iceland’s ‘National Soul’? Posted by Meg on Apr 8, 2018
These past few months, I’ve had the interesting challenge of reading Icelandic folktales in Icelandic. The use of language is, as one might imagine, slightly different than reading a contemporary text – terminology and spelling conventions vary, as does prosody and phraseology. But those changes don’t preclude a deeper understanding of Icelandic culture through a…