Archive for 'Icelandic culture'
Want to climb a mountain? Posted by hulda on Jun 8, 2012
The best season for life outdoors (at least in my personal opinion) is finally here! Iceland, as mentioned many times before, is absolutely beautiful and the best way of experiencing this is by going out to see it yourself. Iceland is full of hiking routes that vary in accessibility, length and difficulty level so there’s something…
Misc. Gender Rules Posted by sequoia on Jun 5, 2012
Here are a few random notes about rules to do with genders. When writing to a mixed group, you can use a slash mark to alternate genders (similar to our “If your student wishes for a bought lunch, he/she can…”). Example: Mig langar til að biðja þig að vera svo góð/ur að svara eftirfarandi könnun…
Beautiful and dangerous. Posted by hulda on Jun 5, 2012
Elves in the Icelandic lore are quite different creatures from what people have come to think of after reading Tolkien. Depending on the tale they can be either a little too interested in humans, kidnapping people or trying to lure them to live in their homes, which are built in rocks and cliffs, or even…
Glíma, the ancient wrestling style. Posted by hulda on May 30, 2012
When it comes to sports in Iceland there probably isn’t any as traditional as glíma, or glima as it’s written outside of Iceland (the only difference is the accent – i / í – that signals correct pronunciation in Icelandic). As a word (að) glíma means (to) wrestle or (to) fight, in some cases also…
Free Stuff Posted by sequoia on May 29, 2012
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Móðir mín í kví, kví. Posted by hulda on May 27, 2012
“Icelandic ghosts are so different from the ones in my homecountry”, a classmate of mine told me once while explaining why she wanted to write her þjóðsögur ritgerð, folk tales essay, about them. Even having a completely different background I had to agree. Icelandic ghosts, draugar, are really a type of their own. They can be…
Greetings from the Grímsvatn volcano. Posted by hulda on May 23, 2012
It began by somewhat of a surprise around seven o’clock in the evening of Monday, 21st May. As I stood at the bus stop waiting for my bus to come and take me downtown for a choir meeting I noticed something odd about the way the air looked like over the city. Although fog is…