“Halló Iceland. I just wanted to write you a quick note and tell you that I think you are lovely. One of my best friends and I only say “Halló” to one another instead of “hello” because we like how it sounds. We’ve been doing that for more than a year now. Also, I love that sometimes your people say “bless bless.” I think two blessings are nicer than one. I am from Washington DC and now my city flies to you on Iceland Air. I hope I can come visit you and your people soon. Love, and bless bless,”
—My friend Abbey just wrote me an electronic email to say halló. You can do this, too.
August 2011
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“We left Keflavik Airport with a yearning for more of Iceland, wanting to keep experiencing it, wanting to bring it home and continue the experience. Everyone seriously needs to visit Iceland. Go! Right now! Seriously stop reading this and go book your tickets.”
—Mr. Stú Brydon is a very enthusiastic man who likes skyr and beer. (They rhyme, but do not go well together.) Stú and his wife visited me on their honey-moon. Many people like to do this. They probably think I am very rómantic.
Every Single Word in Icelandic: Andvari →
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There are many good words in my people’s language. “Andvari” is one of them. If you klikk on the link, you can see what it means.
Hello, Iceland! I didn't know much about you (other than the fact that the musician Björk, who was not in Sigur Ros, lived on you) before I saw your websites, but now I want to be your friend. One day I want to visit you, but I am busy and do not have much money, because I am a student. What part of yourself would you recommend visiting, for a human with not much time or money for visiting?
Dear Alas.
You can visit me for a few days, but it is better to visit me for many days. (Then you will see more of me.) Also it is better to visit me when you are not very busy. You do not have to do it right away. I have been in the middle of the ocean for a long time, and I am not going anywhere.
Bless bless,
IcelandP.S. If you are impatient you can look at videos of me on the Vimeo.
“I like it that on you there are no big electric lines everywhere and that it’s wild and wide and big and free and every breath of your air is more refreshing than a supra-menthol chewing-gum.”
—Julien Apack, who likes lobster soup, wrote me a letter.
“I grew up with all these hippies. Ten of them and one of me. None of them wanted to work and spent all their time talking and dreaming and fooling around. 90% of that hippie stuff is just bullshit but the ideals of that generation were very beautiful and powerful and rebellious. I had to dress and feed myself from the time I was six, which meant I became a very organised person. But there came a point when I was about seven or eight, when I saw the absurdity of living in a commune and I said to them, ‘Why don’t you just DO SOMETHING!?’”
—A human called Björk grew up on me and learned that people (you, too) can go do things.
“Q is for queasy, which is exactly how everyone felt after walking through the sulfurous fumes rising from the volcano we hiked in Fimmvörðuháls, between the glaciers Eyjafjallajökull and Mýrdalsjökull in southern Iceland, but we were shortly rewarded for our bravery at the top with lava-grilled hot dogs and Viking beer.”
—Mr. Dion A. Chay from Boston (and some other places) visited me, hiked on one of my glaciers, ate my sharks, hiked another glacier (and cooked a hot dog on a volcano), and drank my water. When he got back home, he wrote an A to Z (he does not have Þ, Æ, or Ö in his language) about me on his blog.
Rokk →
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From “Every Single Word in Icelandic”.
