Sigga Darling

As a former library worker, I can honestly say that these never stopped long enough to be reshelved, they are that popular with the locals. Get your Stella Blómkvist on today!

JEALOUS! I miss the hot tubs so much 😢

Looking forward to see pics of what you get up to ☺️

I’ll be in London that week sadly, would have been nice to meet up!

Icelandic, “flýttu þér hægt” (literally “hurry slowly”, meaning be careful and mind your step, don’t rush into anything

Ah yes, that’s a tad far ☺️

I’m in Glasgow now but used to be in London :) Whereabouts are you?

I haven’t got my next trip planned but it will be in the next couple of months, I’ll keep you posted :)

I split my time between the UK and Iceland so I’m not quite up to speed on some of the cooler places in Reykjavik but I like Kaffi Vest near Vesturbæjarlaug and Mokkakaffi (Kaffi Mokka) on Skólavörðustígur, then in Hafnarfjörður there are Norðurbakkinn and Pallett, both lovely 🥰

Það er frábært að heyra ☺️

Anytime, mín er ánægjan :)

Þú bara segir til ef þú vilt að ég svari á íslensku, reyni að nota tungumálið sem er notað í upphaflega póstinum en vil ekki vera manneskjan sem svarar á ensku þegar fólk talar íslensku við mig!

Yup, hreiður is a generic term for a nest, for both birds
& mice :) I'd only heard of laupur so I did a bit of digging, apparently the raven's nest can also be called bálkur. The æðarfugl's (common eider) nest is æðarbás, the álft's (swan) is bunki and the lundi's (puffin) is lundahola :)

Did you know that the raven’s nest is called laupur in Icelandic? :)

Us Icelanders take our Easter eggs VERY seriously. Every egg has a proverb inside it and people share theirs and we discuss the meaning :) But you wanted to know how to say páskar didn't you? It is pronounced POW-scar, pow as in Batman's Pow! and scar as in, well scar, POW-scar. Gleðilega páska!

Það er akkúrat ein ástæðan fyrir þessum myndum mínum, ég er búin að vera kenna enskumælandi fjölskyldu og vinum íslensk orð svona í mörg ár og þau ná þessu af því ég veit hvaða hljóð þau þekkja og hvaðan og þau geta borið fram, og mig langaði bara að dreifa þessu víðar :)

Takk fyrir að koma með fræðin inn í umræðuna :)

Kv konan með pennann 😄

The lóa has arrived, it’s officially spring! The Icelandic word for spring is "Vor" and it’s pronounced [VOh-rr]. You start with Voh, which like saying "war" with a V and follow up with a rolling R :) Happy spring peeps!

W-ið er fyrir hljóðið sem við myndum þegar við tengjum ó-ið og a-ið, sem er ekki skrifað, en þetta hjálpar enskumælandi að nota rétt hljóð (vonandi) ☺️

We’ve had our first sighting of the European golden plover this year! It is called “lóa” in Icelandic and is thought to be the bringer of spring, and as we all know, the lóa don’t lie! It is pronounced [LO-wah] - LO as in the word “low” and wah as in a chef’s kiss, mwah! 💋 Happy spring peeps!

“Eldgos” is Icelandic for volcanic eruption. It’s pronounced [ELLE-d-goss] - Elle, like Elle Woods from Legally Blonde, followed by a soft D (sort of like turning Elle into a past tense verb 🤓) and ends with goss, as in some hot goss. Try it and let me know how you get on in the comments ☺️

Hæ hæ, það er ekki komið í loftið ennþá en ég pósta því hér þegar það er klárt! Vonandi í næsta mánuði 🤞🏻

‘Hello’ in Iceland in thick navy lettering, red line drawing of a telephone with a speech bubble on a pink background.

How to pronounce ‘Hello’ in Icelandic, in thick navy lettering on a pink background, it is pronounced HA-low.

How to pronounce ‘Hello’ in Icelandic, in thick navy lettering on a pink background, it is pronounced HA-low.

Happy Saturday everone! Bit of back to basics today, how to say hello in Icelandic. You start off like you’re saying hello in English but instead of the E we use an A 🤓

Dark red line drawing of an orobouros on light red background with some clouds in white around it, with the words “Dreki” (Icelandic for dragon) and “drE-gi” in white and “Dragon” in yellow in the middle

Hey hey, happy Lunar New Year everyone! Wishing you all a year filled with good fortune and prosperity.It is the Year of the Dragon so I thought I would teach you how to say "dragon" in Icelandic, or “dreki”.

[insert Cure lyrics here]

Og cryptic MSN Messenger statusar!

That’s the buzz!

Sem er nánast ómögulegt að finna lengur 😢

Not saying I’m yelling this at the dairy aisle at my local Whole Foods but I’m not saying I’m not…🥸

My partner loves to look at my face when watching the Thor films and someone tries to pronounce these! Asgard (Assguard) and Bifröst (BI-frost) make me cringe so hard 🫣