How to pronounce ICELANDIC names
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Half of these names are like "we love God" and the rest like "we love to fight"
this pretty much was the lifestyle of old scandinavians and vikings
sven is ur father? or ur greatgranfather?
@@alexandermontano4350 father
Ah yes the two genders
lol
"I love unique and weird names"
Her future kids: *Visible fear
@Elijah ?
Me tho. My poor kids. 😂
I've been trying to learn Icelandic, but the struggle is real.
Same
I’m trying too and I’ve seen some books promoted by an Icelander to help learn. If you want I can give you the titles of them. I want to move to Iceland when I get my bachelors in nursing, and maybe my nurse practitioner too
@@britneyevans271 That would be awesome. Also good luck with getting the bachelor! I am in my second year at the moment and hoping to do my erasmus in Reykjavík next year.
Santiago x there’s ‘teach yourself icelandic’ by hildur jonsdottir, ‘coliquial Icelandic’ by daisy l neijmann, ‘islenska fyrir alla’ , ‘sagnasyrpa’, and islenska fyrir utlendinga’
I found alarichall.org.uk/teaching/modern_icelandic.php hugely helpful. If you invest an hour a day you come a long way. The course uses a very useful approach to learning Icelandic
In Russia male name Dìma is pretty popular. It's a short form of Dmitriy which is associated with the name of the ancient Greek goddess of agriculture and earth Demeter.
amada mia amore mio yep, but in Icelandic it's a female name)
@@alexeinars whaaat did I miss that? haha I probably did 🙃 anyway, this is very interesting!
Ага Дима у нас Распространенное имя
And dima is female name in my Native tongue?
So are less than 1 million people in iceland?
I freaking love Icelandic male names, Einar is my personal fav.
Hatari Fan? :D
Lucy Bartolain meee
my fav is Leif 😆
That's what she said. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Finland has that name too, though we add an 'i' in the end to make it Einari
-Hrafna: * *Uploads video with Icelandic names* *
-Me, who is in search of Icelandic names for his Wattpad story: " *Ah, a fine addition to my collection* ! "
Which story? If you published it I would love to read it.
DnD DM here with an adventurer in the group who is in love with Scandinavian names, so this is perfect bahahaha
@@stefaniacentorbi419 it's a space fantasy I'm working on :) ah, why thank you! you can check out my Wattpad if you like, I have some published work on there. they're not the best literature but I tried! haha xD
@@OftenAlwaysFresh ah man, totally agree! I am saving these names as she speaks! lol
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Really interesting to see, that many names are common here in Germany as well. Just spelled differently, but pronounced very similar.
Cause all those are are common Germanic names. She just tells us about the Icelandic version of those.
Das dachte ich mir auch so :)
Same in Poland
I‘m from Germany and we have a lot of this names too , but the most of them are more names people around 40-70 have. I swear everyone in Germany is named Anna and we have Bastian often too
Hansel and gretel are German names right?
@@rickbaker475 yes, these are forms of the names Johannes and Margaret
richard baker yes but nobody is named Hänsel or Gretel , it’s just a German fairytale
I can't say anything about female names, but, according to my observations and depending on generation, every male in Germany is named Sebastian, Christian or Wolfgang :)
@@claraschaoscosmos7470 let's say, these are cozy names, but Hans and Greta are still very typical German names
You're voice is so soft and soothing with you're Icelandic accent beautiful video love you
I love that María is spelled exactly in Spanish😂
Who else was expecting the name Hrafna in one of the lists ?
haha there are other versions of that name like Hrafnhildur, Hrafnborg, Hrafnfríður, so they end up being split out. btw these variations of Hrafna are actually quite popular among icelandic women
Love the hair, so regal! :) Could we get more study/university/future-career related videos? By the way, I wrote my final year dissertation on medieval Icelandic literature (The Poetic Edda, Laxdaela, Njáls saga, etc.) and really loved it! Also love the fact that Iceland is a country with one of the highest rates of literacy (apparently) and there is this long tradition of story-telling and writing. Keep uploading, love your content!
Honestly, "Hrafna" is an awesome name as well. I'm not sure if I'd go with Icelandic names for my children, but Hrafna would definitely be on the list.
But she said her full name is Hrafnhildur 😅
@@TrixieFirecracker yeah, buy I don't know how to pronounce that, so I just stick with Hrafna :P
@@ToxicBanana lol I actually practiced saying her full name the whole day yesterday and now I can say it 😂😂 and also my mom and sister know how to say it bc I've been saying it all day long 😂 It's an amazing sounding name.
@@TrixieFirecracker that translates as "Battle-raven". Blimey... In Celtic mythology that would make her the Morrigan, goddess of battle & death.
Dalia is a flower in spanish!! 🌺 also a name! Kisses from Uruguay🇺🇾
You are not alone I love baby names. I have a whole list for my invisible children 😂
you forgot one beautiful name: HRAFNA.
Jose Zavaleta Yep, Hrafna is definitly much cooler!!
Nah, short versions no, better the one and only Hrafnhildur.
Jose Zavaleta how do you pronounce her name?
How sweet😄😄
@@lExN34 hey sister of name XD
I've just started learning how to pronounce names of the Norse gods, and your videos have helped a lot with proper pronunciation of the Icelandic alphabet. Thank you!
when you say 'Brìet' I laughed so loud because you triggered my Russian.
I like learning about other cultures and always look forward to your videos. Thank you and hello from Alaska.
Thank you for your video.. I love looking up names with their origins and their meanings too.. I love the names “Einar, Gunnar, and Sigurdur”. I also love the names “Sigrun, Sigridur, and Gudrun”… I like learning how to pronounce the names the way they’re pronounced from where they originate from.
Magnús derives from the latin language and yes, it means great, big in fact, here in Italy, Alexander the great is called "Alessandro Magno".
Ed eccoci anche sotto ad un video sui nomi islandesi 😂😂
@@luciafoti6948 🤣 dobbiamo farci valere
I immediately thought of the word "magnitude" and "magnificent" when i heard the name
Correct me if im wrong, Alexander originally came from arabic name Zulkarnain
It's my grandfather's last name but I love it as a first name
My name is Katrin. In Germany, it is common to write it with a "h" in the middle. Kathrin. It looks very strange to me, but almost everybody writhe it wrong. My Grandmothers name was Helga. ;-) When you going here to a Metal-Festival and sleeping on the campsite, then it could might be, that somebody is screaming "Helga" in the middle of the night. And almost everyone is response it! ;-) Its a tradition, because years ago, there was a men who searching his wife "Helga" and screamed her name almost every night. :-) Sigrun is also common in northern Germany.
I love your name. I play in a LARP an Icelandic Character and named her Hrafnahildur ;-) Long, before I watched your videos ;-)
The Child from a friend (where I am a "aunt in law") got the name "Soley". But without the `over the o, because it isn't allowed here in Germany...
Metal+Iceland=Skalmöld!
Try this band out!
And, were you in Wacken because I want to go there some day.
So deep.
Tja, thanks for finally clarifying the thing behind the "Helga" shouts.
Another funny fact about Germany: somebody says Alexander and 30 people check it out - what a fucking common name.
This channel is so rad, thanks for sharing. I have a general idea of what to expect when I go to Iceland. 🤙🏻
This was really interesting and fun. I too enjoy names. Part 2, please.
Here is an idea for part 2: how Icelandic people ( almost) never use their full names. Sigurður - Siggi, Margrét - Magga ect. I've struggled with this when moved to Iceland. I simply did not know that Siggi was a short vertion of Sigurður. So, it took me by surprice when I learned that a person I called Siggi for year or so actualy had a "different" name.
My grandmothers name is Asá and her nickname is Dista- My middle name is Dista and I’ve never truly understood the correlation or found the name Dista anywhere else
Where are you from? It's the same in the US and Poland.
This was really interesting! We have many similar names in Finland, but with a different spelling. We have Gunnar, Einari, Olavi and Helka, for example, but these are mostly associated with older generations. I also liked hearing the unique Icelandic names. Part 2 would be lovely. :)
Yes for a part 2!! I love these names!
I love these types of videos! I'm a big fan of language and starting my studies on the subject in a university soon and I'd love to start learning Icelandic there if possible
I’m visiting Iceland on a school trip next year! Hopefully I will be able to speak conversationally by then! ✌️✨
Your school must be wonderful! And rich
not to brag but i visited over 10 countrys on the same trip with my school 😊
Pegga Gro even though the lessons are sometimes boring, I really enjoy going to my school and I’m so happy to have this opportunity 💫🌟
seksty wow that sounds amazing! Hope you had a good time 😇☀️
@@bunnix380 it was one of my best trips😄 i hope your trip to iceland will be the same
Icelandic names are so beautiful ❤. I love the names of Esja and Æsa for a girl (really really love them) and Einar for a boy
Love your videos!
Much love from Sweden!
I love these types of videos. Please do another!
I love your hair❤️🥰
We used to have 'ð' and 'Ð' in English. We should have kept them - then we would not have to write 'th' in words all the time. Why did we make writing more of a task?
First printing presses in England were of German origin.
We should have said to them, "You can sell us your printing presses as long as you include the letters 'ð', 'Ð', 'Æ', 'æ', 'Þ' and 'þ' and not before". All of these were used in Old English (Anglo-Saxon) 🙂.
@@haeleth7218 I'm pretty sure that Old English was not spoken anymore when the printing press was invented.
@@sahralenny You will be right on that. We English will have been speaking 'Middle English' by that point. I should have said that we should have taken our Anglo-Saxon characters into Middle English really.
Haeleth 72 They did in the beginning but they stopped using them.
Really cool as well as interesting to hear/see the Icelandic names and meanings
These actually helped me pick names for my book!
I find that speaking Spanish helps with pronouncing Icelandic words.
For example, the D-th sound in Sigridur is a soft d which breathes into a "th"sound.
Also, the rolling r is common in Spanish as well.
Many North Americans cannot roll their R's and make a gurgle sound. It's super funny.
"Bastian" remind me of Bastian Baltazar Bux from "The neverending story".
Yes, I had that same thought, loved that film as a kid 💖
Amazing movie! I've seen it multiple times as a kid, teen and adult and it's just great, no matter what age you are.
The Neverending Story is a German book (called Die Unendliche Geschichte in German) and Bastian (and Sebastian) is a pretty common name in Germany
Love the shoutout to mma! I'm very much interested and follow it regularly. Love your channel!
Love it! I'm definitely like you when it comes to loving unique names. I'm currently working on writing a historical fiction series that has a band of Normans that appear in my novels. One of them is called King Magnus which is a name that you mentioned in your video. All that to say that I'm looking forward to the second video of this!
We have a lot of those names in Germany too! :)
Is there a German Gunnar?
Cristian Akuma Yes indeed, Gunnar is used exactly like this in Germany as well :)
A lot of the names are super common all over the Nordics too. It does kind of highlight the Germanic culture -area of Europe though
James Sanchez Yes, 82 millions.
Icelandic Norwegian Swedish and danish and Deutsch are brothers, they’re all from the same language family, that is Germanic language family.
It’s interesting: my name is Nathaniel, which is Hebrew for “God’s gift”.
I suppose then that my Icelandic name would be “Guðmundur” if we were translating according to meaning. I love it! 🤩
Old English: Godmund (God's protection)
Woop this will help as i am coming to Iceland in June =) want to atten the Viking Festival in Hafnarfjordur =)
love this video!!! please make a part II 🙏😁
Ahh this is amazing thank you so much for mentioning me! I'd love to do a collaboration on Icelandic names if you fancy? I will email you xxx
In Ukraine and Russia Dima is a veeery common male name haha
love your videos btw ♡
... And Belarus:) In Slavic countries Dima its short name from Dmitriy. Like Haffi from Hafsteinn.
Собрались как-то славяне в комментах..
Now I see why everytime in Duolingo, I always heard Дима :D
Please do a part two, I adore names
Definitely do a part 2!
i swear i thought björk was gonna be the top female name
There is a German version of Ingibjörg, which is Ingeborg 😄
All these names are very Beautiful, and I have to agree Díma is lovely!
Very informative, thank you!
“ Dalia” means “ fate” in my language, we also have that name ;)
Also, wondered if you could do one more video where you try to read words in other languages? :)
We have almost all those names in Germany, too :)
Thank you so much I have learn so much from your videos. Keep them coming. I hope to visit Iceland. Mange takk I am American-Norwegian.
What makes these names on your list so beautiful is not so much the names themselves, but it is all in the way you are pronouncing them. Anyone else I would think wouldn’t put as much effort in articulating the pronunciation as you have to make them sound as beautiful as you have.
Very close to common names in Sweden :)
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With the music of Heilung.
Definitely part 2!!! :)))
Oh my gosh I love watching her videos too!!
Me: I don’t know any names that give me any ‘feeling’ , - it’s just a name ?
Briet
Me: ohhhhhhhhhhh that feeling!! Now I get it
Number 3 male name I understand “Großmutter” - grandmother in German😂
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My cousin has a friend called Baltazar from Island, it was like 10 years ago I met him, but I still remember that awesome name. (in sweden)
Hello from a U.S. soldier in Kuwait! Love your vids. Thank you for sharing your country... and your Beauty! :-)
It’s interesting that in Polish some names are so similar (in pronunciation and in spelling), e.g. in Poland we have Stefan, Krystian, Maria, Helga, Anna (pronunciation is the same like in Iceland) also Joanna (in Polish it’s without “h”)
yeah but I'd say that Helga is not as common as it is in Iceland lmao when me & my friends were little we used to make fun of this name cause we've all pictured woman named Helga as a very specific human being.. In our heads she had been like Cinderella's sister in ShrekXD but nevermind maybe it's because I've never met someone called like this and the name itself sounds soooo freaking strong, especially when you say it with German accent;)
kurkirurki Yeah it’s kinda unpopular in Poland and considered as not really beautiful name but it exists and it’s weird to me cuz Icelandic culture is so much different than Polish
The way Icelandic people pronounce the R at the end of words is the GREATEST sound that humans can make! 😄
Also, if you name your kid Magnús, you can't get angry when they walk around just pulling trees out of the ground and picking up their teachers.
My last name is Magnusson and my best friend named her son Magnus. It’s the best!
I loved a lot how Einar sounds. Really awesome!
Thanks. I will have trouble learning. But it takes time and patient. Names. Have an old fashion pronunciation. Thanks for sharing.
me: *Looking at the area outside Hrafnas window*
me: My god, I think my aunt lives near there....
Dima = Дима (Dmitriy-Дмитрий) This is one of popular Russians mans name)))
Thank you for the video!
Please do a part 2 Hrafna. This was very interesting. You have to tell us how many people are called Hrafna.
love your channel
Magnus Magnusson is / was famous in the UK . :)
Norbert_Thomas haha that means mangnus the son of mangnus
"I've started so I'll finish" lol.
I'd love to name a child with an Icelandic name but in Brazil, it's gonna be hell to have other people say them correctly...
And curiously, Ana Luisa is a pretty common name in Brazil.
Akjssksksksjsk I would name my kid with an Icelandic name. It would be really hard to other people pronounce it, but it would be cool. Pessoas que lutem.
@@jameshammaxe6247 pessoas que lutem sempre hahahahaha.
Even if I like a lot of Icelandic names I think the one I love most is yours Hrafna! I'm actually learning Icelandic and I always had a very strong connection with ravens during my life and since a couple of days I have your name in my mind so I just traduced it on google... I was really surprised and I understood why your name was stuck in my mind! I just needed to learn this word, this is not just my favorite Icelandic name but my favorite Icelandic word now so I'm probably going remember your name for the rest of my life! I love your name and the meaning of it I would definitly put it in first position on my own list if I had one :)
I just want to say that I love the eth sound (ð) used in Icelandic.
I can roll my R's because I'm Colombian but my "s" is crap because you have a sort of Spanish "s" lisp when you pronounce it. I just can't do that lol
I'm catalonian so i can roll r too (my daughter's name also has rolling r: Arlet 🤗
I can speak German, so rolling R's isn't a problem for me either 😁
My native language is Afrikaans (based on old Dutch, spoken in South Africa - among 10 other official languges..)
The Norwegian “ Translation” of the male name nr.2 is “ Sigurd”, hahaha
Toma M and Gudmundur is Gudmund in Norwegian😂
I love your vídeos. There are sooo interesting. Greetings from Spain
I’ve watched Gunnar Nelson for years and I did not know that it was pronounced that way!! I love this channel!
I named my plant Helga 😂
Cool!!! 🤣
Hahahahaha
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Please make a part 2!
You should teach us how to say holiday/special occasions in lcelandic like merry christmas, happy birthday, happy new year, etc. Or teaching you icelandic pt 5
wow, i would've thought Ragnar or Arnar would be in the list, top 5 even
Jeremias Oviedo king ragnar
Ragnar is not that common
Listening to OMAM?
Tyler Frost Wdym?
@@jonnak6776 Hahahahah you got me! I didnt think of Brynjar cause it sounds not that common, but Ragnar and Arnar do
I can feel it. You are becoming more mother like. You are ready for a 👶 baby. ❤️
lol
Love this video! 🌸
Would be funny if you could find the most popular names many years ago - And then the most popular now (or 2019) - To see what people call their children now versus then.
I've missed you Hrafna!💙
We all did
4:56 I have Magnus Bane flashbacks
taehyungie sameee haha
i don’t understand how the “g” in “sigurður” is pronounced ...
Raechyl
The way of pronounciation of that G is barely used in worldwide languages, I’m Dutch and am familiar with it. Can’t really explain it. It’s kinda the letter H but rasping ur throat.
@@youritake8618 a Flemish G
Look for Jackson Crawford Chanel here on UA-cam. He has some videos about old-norse pronunciation and he teaches how to pronounce letters like this.
@@youritake8618 as someone trying to learn Danish, I highly appreciate this tip! Thank you 😁
This sound, afaik:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiced_velar_fricative
Click on the |> "Audio Sample" on the right to hear it pronounced.
watching your videos and commenting hoping you respond🙏🏻 you are a beautiful lady and can teach me so much about my lost heritage💜
Nice video Hrafna and nice names I liked this video yes!!! :)
I did my ancestry and I was 9% Norwegian and Icelandic
Do a part 2!!!😄😄😄😄
i'm called gunnar and my favorite mma fighter is gunnar nelson! so glad you included our shared name :)
These names are beautiful😀👍👊
Dalia is such a beautiful name I really like it and when you were going through the list I just thought maybe this name or an alternative of this name would be on the list somewhere I just didn't thought it would be “sorta ” first on those names that you mentioned
Good video, thank you. I finally got the meaning of ´ on vowel from this video. Damn it's been bugging me.
Love it 💕
That way to roll the r in Icelandic it’s just beautiful