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Happy Birthday, Iceland! Posted by on Jun 17, 2012

“Hæ, hó, jibbí, jei og jibbí, jei – Það er kominn 17. júní!” In other words, happy Independence Day Iceland and Icelanders! Today’s a big fest downtown that began in the morning and will go on until at least seven p.m. We have been lucky with the weather today, it’s been sunny and warm with…

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Víkingahátíð, the viking festival. Posted by on May 14, 2012

“Sögumenn, götulistamenn, handverksmenn sem bæði höggva í steina og tré eða berja glóandi járn, bardagamenn og bogmenn, svo eitthvað sé nefnt.” June is nearing and with it the annual festival held at the Viking* Village in Hafnarfjörður: Víkingahátíð, the viking festival. I went there last year and I wholeheartedly recommend paying it a visit in…

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May Day Posted by on May 1, 2012

Note: We changed some things in our blog system, so sorry if you saw something strange over the past couple weeks (my posts were a little messed up and I think some of them didn’t show up for a while). Today is May Day (also known as Labour Day – “Verkalýðsdagur / Working-classes’ Day”), always…

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Easter proverbs Posted by on Apr 9, 2012

Here are the sayings I have from this year’s chocolate Easter eggs, as described in Hulda’s previous post. Some of them are clear just by looking up the individual words, but some, as she mentioned, might not make sense even to a native speaker. There might be some errors in typing them up, I noticed…

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Christmas photos Posted by on Nov 20, 2011

If you want me to talk about something specific, want more photos of this or that, or want to know some grammar, just comment and ask for it. Christmas is coming and Christmas-themed stuff started to show up a few weeks ago. I lost some photos that I had so you’re getting a mix of…

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Culture night Posted by on Aug 21, 2011

Culture night (Menningarnótt) was Saturday, 20th August. Which actually means it’s still going on as I type this. The first one was in 1996, and it’s been an annual tradition since. You can go to their website here to see the schedule of events. We awoke too late to see a lot of the events…

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