{"id":3787,"date":"2014-11-30T16:53:52","date_gmt":"2014-11-30T16:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/icelandic\/?p=3787"},"modified":"2014-11-30T16:53:52","modified_gmt":"2014-11-30T16:53:52","slug":"angry-angry-icelanders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/icelandic\/2014\/11\/30\/angry-angry-icelanders\/","title":{"rendered":"Angry, angry Icelanders."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Angry Sheep Red by Kyle May at Flickr.<\/p><\/div>\n

After a whole month of talking about fighting in the Medieval era I felt it’s time to see if anything’s changed in one thousand years. Are Icelanders still solving their problems by hacking parts off of their enemies? Should you carry an axe around just in case when visiting the country?<\/p>\n

Perhaps not, because one thousand years can indeed change societies a great amount. First of all women no longer hide behind femininity if they have a beef with someone – just take a walk down any of Reykjav\u00edk’s party streets after the nightclubs close. Curiously they do need alcohol to get their aggression out though, and the same applies to men. It seems that the Icelander of today is having an opposite problem, incapability of showing their anger altogether (unless drunk).<\/p>\n

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Hafnarfjordur by Shadowgate at Flickr.<\/p><\/div>\n

In fact negative feelings have become something of a taboo and showing them is almost considered rude, so instead people dance around them and make a great show of pretending NOT to be angry, doubly so\u00a0if they actually are mad. When you see someone admitting to\u00a0being angry they may therefore do it in an oddly calm fashion, almost as if they were not really upset\u00a0at all… but don’t let that fool you. They’re just holding back out of general politeness and are in fact very, very angry.<\/p>\n

So how will you ever know that an Icelander is feeling upset? Look for the following words and phrases!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Rei\u00f0ur\/rei\u00f0<\/em> = angry<\/p>\n

Pirra\u00f0ur\/pirru\u00f0<\/em> = annoyed<\/p>\n

Brj\u00e1la\u00f0ur\/brj\u00e1lu\u00f0<\/em> = mad\/crazy<\/p>\n

Kolbrj\u00e1la\u00f0ur\/kolbrj\u00e1lu\u00f0<\/em> = lit. transl. coal crazy, real meaning: filled with rage\/hate\/anger<\/p>\n

\u00d6skuillur\/\u00f6skuill<\/em> = lit. transl. ash evil, real meaning: filled with rage\/hate\/anger<\/p>\n

\u00d6skuvondur\/\u00f6skuvond<\/em> = same as above<\/p>\n

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Cutlery protest… by Greg Neate at Flickr.<\/p><\/div>\n

Some handy things you can say when you’re angry yourself:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00dea\u00f0 er svo pirrandi!<\/em> = It’s so annoying!<\/p>\n

Hinga\u00f0 og ekki lengra!<\/em> = lit. transl. this far and not further, real meaning: now you’ve done it\/now you’ve crossed a line!<\/p>\n

\u00deegi\u00f0u\/Haltu kjafti!<\/em>\u00a0= Shut up! You can also add “\u00e6<\/em>” to the beginning – “\u00e6 \u00feegi\u00f0u<\/em>” = Oh shut up.<\/p>\n

\u00deegi\u00f0 \u00fei\u00f0 (\u00f6ll)!<\/em> = Shut up (every one of you)! This one’s a plural, in case you want to tell a group of people to shut up and not just one person in it.<\/p>\n

N\u00fa er nog komi\u00f0!<\/em> = lit. transl. now has enough come, real meaning: that’s enough!<\/p>\n

M\u00e9r er ofbo\u00f0i\u00f0!<\/em> = I’m outraged!<\/p>\n

N\u00fa er m\u00e9r n\u00f3g bo\u00f0i\u00f0!<\/em> = lit. transl. I’ve been given enough, real meaning: I’ve had enough!<\/p>\n

\u00c9ttann sj\u00e1lfur\/\u00e9tt’ann sj\u00e1lfur\/\u00e9tt’hann sj\u00e1lfur<\/em> (all spellings exist)! = lit. transl. eat it yourself, real meaning:\u00a0a generic insult on the lines of “piss off”.<\/p>\n

Helv\u00edtis andskotans dj\u00f6fulsins fokking fokk!<\/em> = Hell’s devil’s devil’s effing eff! You can make almost any combination of these ones by the way.<\/p>\n