{"id":354,"date":"2012-04-09T12:27:43","date_gmt":"2012-04-09T12:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/icelandic\/?p=354"},"modified":"2012-06-24T17:13:58","modified_gmt":"2012-06-24T17:13:58","slug":"easter-proverbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/icelandic\/2012\/04\/09\/easter-proverbs\/","title":{"rendered":"Easter proverbs"},"content":{"rendered":"

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 that the text editing program had auto-corrected some words.<\/p>\n

I was told that it’s a really good idea to leave more things without translations so as to test your Icelandic, so I’ll be doing that unless someone complains.<\/p>\n

Freyja (brand): (tiny eggs – these are eggs that have little more inside than the proverb. You could buy them in packs of six I think it was.)
\nBetra er a\u00f0 r\u00f3a en reka undan. (Remember that when making comparisons, “en” means “than”, as in “better to… than to…” or “I am more… than you”)
\nMe\u00f0alh\u00f3f er best.
\nBetra er brau\u00f0 \u00ed poka en gull \u00ed pyngju (also “pungur” – old word for something like a skin pouch, in this case “purse”, which purses may have been made of back then).
\nAllir vegir liggja \u00ed tv\u00e6r \u00e1ttir.
\nAllt m\u00e1 kaupa anna\u00f0 en t\u00edma.
\nReynslan er v\u00edsindum fremri.
\nEins skal aftur s\u00e1, \u00fe\u00f3tt uppskeran hafi veri\u00f0 r\u00fdr.
\nMargt sm\u00e1tt gerir eitt st\u00f3rt.
\nLifir eik \u00fe\u00f3tt laufi\u00f0 fj\u00faki – When I looked this up, I found this article<\/a>.<\/p>\n

N\u00f3i S\u00edr\u00edus (another brand): (tiny eggs, you could buy them individually)
\nAllar \u00e1r renna til sj\u00e1var.
\nUmgengni l\u00fdsir innra manni.
\n\u00de\u00fa ver\u00f0ur a\u00f0 lifa \u00f6\u00f0rum ef \u00fe\u00fa k\u00fdst a\u00f0 lifa sj\u00e1lfum \u00fe\u00e9r.<\/p>\n

G\u00f3a (third brand): (bigger eggs – these are the eggs with lots of candy inside)
\nF\u00e1tt er svo \u00e1g\u00e6tt a\u00f0 eigi finnist anna\u00f0 sl\u00edkt.
\nFleira er gle\u00f0i en f\u00e9b\u00e6tur einar.<\/p>\n

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If you go here you can see the sales at B\u00f3nus<\/a>. If you’re curious about the price of food or if you want to know what people might be eating for holidays, then I’d look at something like this to see what they’re marking down. They also have recipes, and right now there is one for “Easter Lamb”<\/a>. I can translate this recipe if anyone wants me to (or any other recipe you may have).<\/p>\n

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The holiday drink that I might have mentioned at Christmas time is a drink of half orange soda, and half malt. You can buy it pre-mixed or separated and people drink it especially during holidays. Malt in this case is non-alcoholic<\/em>.<\/p>\n

I didn’t manage to take many photos of things this year (my wife doesn’t like me taking photos inside stores so I had to stop that, and so I don’t carry my camera with me everywhere anymore), so the following are all photos from last year:<\/p>\n

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\nGiant Easter egg inside Kringlan, the mall. I’ve also seen giant milk cartons and a giant ad for Coca-Cola displayed here, among other things.<\/p>\n

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\nThese two are from inside Europris, I heard it’s a Norwegian store chain but I don’t know. It has a variety of items.<\/p>\n

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\nChocolate eggs with chopped-up pieces of licorice in with the chocolate. The candy inside also tends to have more licorice-flavoured types, although not entirely. I wish they’d just make an actual licorice egg because I don’t like chocolate.<\/p>\n

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\nMore orange-soda-and-malt drinks.<\/p>\n

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\nEntrance to Hagkaup in Kringlan.<\/p>\n

I also heard there was a great Easter festival somewhere in Iceland, possibly the Westman Islands, but I’ve forgotten where it was and it was also too far away for me to go on my own. The friend who told me about it had work at the time, otherwise I may have gone with her. If you’re interested there might be something on it at the Reykjav\u00edk Grapevine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\"\"

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…<\/p>\n

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