Called to the Bar in 1903, he was in Norway in 1905, when the country gained independence, and he learned Norwegian as well as some Danish and Icelandic.
The short form, without breaking, is also found in Norwegian, Faroese and Icelandic.
Faroese is similar to Icelandic, and also the Old Norse language spoken in the Scandinavian area more than a millennium ago.
Miðborg (Icelandic: city centre), also known as Miðbær or Austurbær, is a sub-municipal administrational district that covers much of the central part Reykjavík, the capital of Iceland.
Icelandic u-umlaut, a similar process affecting only /a/ and operating productively in modern Icelandic
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The Icelandic language would also be one of the smallest official languages of the EU in terms of native speakers (together with Irish and Maltese).
(Icelandic: Íslensk erfðagreining) is a biopharmaceutical company based in Reykjavík, Iceland.
Of the North Germanic languages, the Icelandic language is closest to the Old Norse language and has remained relatively unchanged since the 12th century.
She wrote over sixty; some of them were translated into German, French, Chinese, Icelandic and Spanish; in 1872 an edition of thirty-five volumes was published in Philadelphia.
H-dagurinn or Hægri dagurinn (Icelandic: H-day or Right day) on 26 May 1968 is the day that Iceland changed from left hand traffic to right hand traffic.
In Icelandic, lemon socialism is known as "Sósíalismi andskotans", meaning "the devil's socialism", a term coined by Vilmundur Jónsson (1889–1971, Iceland's Surgeon General) in the 1930s to criticize alleged crony capitalism in Landsbanki, which term has gained renewed currency in the debate over the 2008–2012 Icelandic financial crisis.
O'Siadhail subsequently on a government exchange scholarship studied folklore and Icelandic at the University of Oslo.
This is Björk's first solo single to be released entirely in Icelandic.
In 2004 he became president of the High Icelandic Language Movement (Háfrónska málhreyfingin), a movement that endeavours to build a variant of Icelandic that is free of loan-words.
The name is derived from three words: angar comes from the Old Norse angr which means a fjord or bay; á means a stream; and salt has the same meaning in Faroese, Icelandic and English.
RES - The School for Renewable Energy Science (Icelandic: RES - Orkuskólinn) is a private, non-profit, international graduate school located in the city of Akureyri in northern Iceland and shares its facilities with the University of Akureyri.
Despite Enslaved's nationality, the lyrics on this album are mainly in Icelandic, perhaps due to its resemblance to Old Norse.
The title track "Mamma þarf að djamma" in collaboration with and featuring the vocals of Jóhanna Guðrún had an even bigger success in the Icelandic Singles Charts, staying at top of Tónlist singles chart for 13 consecutive weeks making it the biggest selling Icelandic language single for 2013.
Pétur Þorsteinsson (born 1955), Icelandic priest and neologist; leader of an Icelandic language movement