Fascinating FACTS about Iceland
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- Опубліковано 5 лют 2025
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FAQ:
how old are you? 21
where are you from? Iceland
what camera do you use? Canon M10
love ya guys so much xx
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Correction: Iceland legalized gay marriage in 2010 NOT in 2006! Accidentally said 2006 haha ahh!
Hi Hrafna Im a fan of yours I really love your vlogs about Iceland hoping to see you here in Iceland..Im from Philippines..😊😊
How dare you...I will never trust again...
Hrafna Hello 👋 love ❤️ from Philippines 🇵🇭 🇮🇸
Roberto Insingo also in Israel
Greetings from Costa Rica!
I swear Icelandic people are the most chill people
Haha true
And sexy 😏. Most of the time lol
Yes its very cold there. They are very chill. Like hypothermia chill.
Stefan Savic True (i’m icelandic)
@@Name-kd5jj It does not seem to get that cold there.
The last name system is 'allowed' in norway and sweden. And on the faroese islands it is still dominant.
And Denmark
And Finland
@@aleksiheiska8286 no.
Yeah, we have those Danish spelled surnames that are inherited. We do, however, have more and more people taking on proper patronyms that are strictly personal. As we did since before Norse settlement in Iceland. I am Faroese, by the way
Nicklas Skipper shut up & go away !
We in Slavic countries also have the window weather idea but call it differently. In literal translation we call it sun with teeth cause it looks sunny but once you go outside the cold "bites" you 😂
Canada has this too
@Emanuil Serafimov I'm from Bosnia and Herzegovina but I'm Croatian if that helps at all, basically everyone here uses the term "zubato sunce".
I loved the meaning behind it 🤣🤣🤣
In serbia it is the same (in all balkan countries eventually). Zubato sunce can usually tick you when you see very nice weather through window and than you freeze outside 😂
Haha that's so funny cause here in Brazil when you see the weather through the window and think "oh it is probably hot outside"
yeah
it is
Geothermal activity, basically we have a ton of hotsprings (due to lavaflow being very close to the surface) and we drill for boiling water underground, use the steam from it to generate electricity and then pump the hot water up in pipelines, filter it and use that as both bathing water and to heat up our houses, about 90% of housing in Iceland is geothermically heated.
For my small apartment i pay about 25$ a month
Hope this helped 🤷♀️
I love taking long showers but live with three other people, so I can't. I'm moving somewhere cold with cheap water.
Seems that God really loves you. You have cold outside (to stay near each other inside) and same time you have almost a free heating system and warm water :D :D :P Only for a month I paid 750€ heating
Some of these facts I knew , some not .
Please give us a part 2 !
Hugs from USA 🇺🇸 ❤️
Hi
in Finland we call our teachers by their 1st name or even with a nickname🇫🇮
same in Brazil
Same for Mexico
Same for Denmark
In Spain, when someone gets married, our last names don't change, neither! :) We got two last names, the first one is the first last name of the father, and the second, the first of the mother (the order can change if the parents want it. Great video Hrafna, greetings from Galicia!, Sp!!!
Den Ukkonen our spanish teacher told us this and that you often have endless names then xD
In Italy people don't have double surnames, but women also don't change their surnames after marrying
@@linajurgensen4698 Not really, I mean, there are people with two names (+double surname) or something like that, but it's not thaaat usual
Hey! I'm spanish too! So cool to find more spanish people that watch this channel 😊
Same goes for Latin american countries, we have two names (usually, but it can be as many as your parents want) and two last names
Here in Finland we use first names of almost everyone too.
My Grandpa was stationed in Reykjavík in the early 50’s with the US Navy. I grew up hearing tells and story’s for Iceland. I have a ton of pictures from his time there as a naval photographer. I hope to see them for myself one day.
I'm going to Iceland for a week next month (my father lives there but he's Polish like me) and I'm super excited, I love your channel and all things Iceland related 💓
I have dreamt about visiting your country since I was in middle school (even before my father moved there) so it's a big thing for me and I can't wait 💕
I was just in Iceland with some friends. Truly an amazing country! Both people and landscape! Thank you for being a part of such beauty
"Hrafnhildur"? Come on, it doesn't get much cooler than that... your name sounds epic af, lol.
Thank you!!
more epic if you translate it to english: Valkyrie of the Ravens or raven Valkyrie
They are still vikings and that's awesome! :-)
my name is Hilda! i had never met anyone with my name before i found your videos.
i am really proud of my name and its meaning (warrior, fighter, basically its a pretty badass name) really suits me
@@winterd0tter its a very common spanish name hilda at least in México
In Russian, everyone is referred to by their first and middle name, we also do not use "Mr/Miss/Mrs". The middle name always comes from the father, adding "-a" for females, and "-vich" for males.
Awesome I love Russia and Russia's they are the only thing keeping masculinity alive keep up the strong work and the women are beautiful would love to learn Russian and visit but I wanna visit Iceland first what a cool country god bless us
Can’t wait to visit Iceland one day!❤️😊
expensive :(
Max Albert it’s doable if you don’t go out to eat at the restaurants and cook yourself. i personally found it kinda fun to work around that. ate out once during 5 days there
Linda Jürgensen what are u doing here hahaha, hallo!
Aldo Klaudiasson who are u? ;)
@@linajurgensen4698 Remember the video about Icelandic folk music? Thats me
In the US (and I’m sure in other countries similar) we have some people who’s last name is Richardson, Watson, Anderson, etc. Those names usually date back to European countries with last name systems like Iceland :)
Oohh! In my country (Costa Rica) we also generate most of our electricity on hydroelectric plants! 98% to be precise. Also we already had a female president.
Wtf, encontrarse otro tico en un vídeo de una islandesa. 😅
@@KnightRiderOfVoid !!! Jajaj que pequeño es el mundo! 🤔😂
Qué sean 3 xD. Lo que termina haciendo uno en vez de estudiar
You also have sloths and that is pretty freaking cool.
@@miltestcf1281 y 6 meses después otra tica jajaja
Iceland:
Summer: am i a joke to you?
I hate that people think its cold on the summer and that gives me the rigth to say STOOOPID It reached 30° Here This summer so stfu
FixGamingYt The average max temperatura of the hottest month is just 13 º so, no, it’s not hot at all
@@pabloarjona9674 Are u dumb i live there i know the tempeture ot reached 30° you cant say shit bro
@@pabloarjona9674 U dont even know nothing bruh
Wavyz no except if you live in Akureyri
In Ukraine 🇺🇦 we have a little bit similar name system to the Icelandic. We have SURNAME - NAME - PATRONYMIC NAME ( [father’s name] +suffix [ovych])
So I’m Shevchuk Yaroslav Olexandrovych. Olexandr is my father’s name
Sorry if too complicated🙃
Yarikus_ Kyiv was established by the Vikings, so it is likely that the Russian/Ukranian patronymic name system came from them. Other slavic cultures don’t really have them.
Shit! I wish I read the comments before I posted about our Ukrainian names as well 😂😂
@@afcgeo882 There kind of are - in Bulgarian, Serbian, Croatian. In Bulgarian, for example, patronymic and family names have the same form and you can tell which one is which by their order: Ivan Nikolaev Aleksandrov would be Ivan, son of Nikolai, (great) grandson of Aleksander. Still, the middle name usually appears on official documents only
In Poland we don't have it and it has never been legally allowed as a name system but it appeared in our culture. Now, the suffix "owicz"/ "ewicz" is one of the most popular suffixes for surnames. For example two greatest Polish writers are Sienkiewicz and Mickiewicz. Sienkiewicz means son of Sieńko (some old eastern slavic name which doesn't exist in Poland now) and Mickiewicz also comes from sth like that. We have really a lot of surnames like these - Janowicz (son of Jan ), Abramowicz (son of Abram), Łukaszewicz (son of Łukasz) etc.
Some of them (like Makłowicz) are not originally Polish ofc, they have Lithuanian, Belarusian, Ukrainian or Russian origin, but they have polonized through the centurys.
r.rodzynek It’s common throughout Europe. Celtic, Slavic, Germanic, Caucasian and Iberian cultures all used to use patronymic names and now have surnames derived from them.
Johnson, Wilson, Rodriguez, Fitzgerald, O’Connor, Andersson, Petrov, MacAllister... all examples of those.
If I called a teacher by their first name, I’d get a detention hah
THAT LITERALLY HAPPENED TO ME OMG
Wauw. What country?
Same in Germany
bangelawi I live in the UK and it would most likely happen here, depends on how strict the teacher is
You would get detention in the US as well for using your teachers first name
So happy I found out about this channel. I've always loved learning about Iceland. I'll be sticking around for a while 😁
Hi Hrafna, my uncle who pretty much raised me was in the British Airborne Artillery and was stationed in Reykjavik for a while during WW2. He didn't like taking about the war very much but he did however like to talk about the places they were stationed and people he met and often lived with. He would tell me stories of the beauty of Iceland 🇮🇸. Another of his favorites was Belgium, where the couple that shared there house with the allied soldiers called Sabbe, he became firm friends with until the end of their days
In Brazil, we also call people by their first names! Even professors and doctors
Window weather made me thing of something: where I'm from in Vermont, we have a bunch of made-up "seasons", and one is called sticks season. It's the late part of fall when all the leaves have fallen, but we haven't gotten any snow yet, so all the trees just look like naked sticks.
Swedish people also call people by their first name but sometimes (or even quite often) people call eachother by their lastname or ''nickname''. Exception is our Royal family. We adress them by their titles if we're ever were to stumble upon them.
xLarsson96x And yet your name is “Larsson”, which means the son of Lars.
George L his dad’s name probably isn’t Lars though. We stoped using that system a long time ago.
Edvin Alcantara I know, but it was likely his ancestor’s name.
Norway had the same system of patronymic surnames, but did away with it about a century ago. It was common place on the country side, but not so much in urban areas. My Mothers name is Eriksen, but had to trace the the family line 5 Generation back before I found the source of the patronym: Erik Olsen. Needless to say, Erik Olsens father was Ole.
i am from greece and i like your videos! please make a video and talk about art,describe what you like most about arts,and what means to be an artist in iceland?
We have Gluggavedur here, but we don't call it that here in Colorado. I call it deceptively nice weather. It looks like it's super warm, the sun is out, everything looks great. Then you open the door and discover that it's actually freezing.
I love your name! It sounds really good. And the name thing is really interesting. But how do people call your family? For example here in Germany we say like "This is Familie Müller" how do you say it when you don't have the same surname as the rest of your family?
Sometimes families use their house as a family name (mine does, I'm Icelandic btw) or where one of your family member and his/her family were raised.
We don’t really say anything like that
@@huldagujonsdottir397 and whats the name of the house? I never heard a house name
@@ylfakristin5415 my family does and my best friend's family does. That's also why I said "sometimes"
@@rimdidim22 my family uses the house where my grandma used to live. Idk how to explain this hshsh
Don’t doubt your English! You speak better than many Americans. I love everything you share about your country 💚 thank you for all your hard work in making videos for us!
In Part 2, you should discuss the fact that Icelandic Women seem to dominate the Crossfit Games competition. Annie Thorisdottir (2 Championships), Katrin Davidsdottir (2 Championships), Sara Sigmundsdottir has finished 2nd numerous times and Thuri Helgadottir is always in contention as well.
Just built that way but also alot of people do roids. Same with strong man compition
Hi @Hrafna, thank you for your videos about your gorgeous country! I have 2 questions:
- Can you tell me how your internet provider works, and how much you have to pay for the service?
- What type industrial factories, or anything about engineering you guys have? I heard you have a power plant generated by geotermic energy.
Best of regards.
Great informative video again, takk fyrir Hrafna!
But if indeed 60.000 Icelanders visited Ed Sheeran´s concerts there, it´s not only every seventh, but rather even every sixth (!) Icelander who has seen him performing live! ;-)
And I´m really looking forward to visiting Iceland this October, I barely can´t wait to be there for one week (secretly hoping to cross your way one day...)!!
Bless
That naming system actually used to be the same in the other Nordic countries as well. That's why there's still so many people with surnames like "Johansen" or "Svensson". It changed sometime in the middle ages though, as people wanted to start differentiating their lineage from others by adopting surnames that were shared by all members of the family line.
As someone who learns Icelandic, i have the keyboard problem too xD almost every time i type 'm' instead of 'n' or 'l' instead of 'k'
For some silly reason I thought Iceland was using patronymic names for sons and matronymic names for daughters: dottir. Obviously that's not so according to Hrafna.
Here in the U.S. a growing number of people wish they had the money, connections, and desired skills to move to another country.....
It's so nice to get genuine facts and some how I feel more connected to iceland every time I watch your videos, can't wait to go back. Thanks
WOW Iceland is incredible
For a long time Ive wondering to visit Iceland
Greetings from México
Thank you for your videos. Very helpful for those of us about to visit.
I’m going to Iceland tomorrow for vacation!!! I’m so excited 😆
Great! Have a nice travel :)
Im from iceland and if I was you I would cook at home or hotel if you can the restaurants here are very expensive but you can just see for yourself mabey you have the money
Nói Páll we are staying at air b and bs and they come with kitchens. My sister and I are quite picky eaters so our mom packed us a lot of dry food we can cook for ourselves. I’m so excited to leave tonight!! Thank you so much for the tip!
@@devanalaya have fun !
My favorite fact about Iceland is that he Sagas of the Icelanders was repeated as an oral tradition for hundreds of years with such accuracy that today you can buy a copy of the book and use it as a travel guide of historic places in Iceland :)
Are Björk and Sigur Ros popular in Iceland?
I'm not from Iceland but I'm sure they are xD (big fan of both!)
Probably not as much as Of Monsters and Men or Emiliana Torrini.
One of my friends is a fairly well known musician from Iceland and he said that this isn't the case at all. He actually has a bit of a giggle when people compare what he does to Bjork or Sigur Ros.
As far as I know (I'm not an Icelander, but I'm a huge fan of Icelandic music) everyone knows them because they are (expecially Björk) the people who brought Iceland to the world and Icelanders are very proud of them.
But they haven't got a very big fanbase there, people know some hits, but aren't really fans.
Sciadi Their time was long ago. Back in the 1990s they were big, all over, but today? No... people and tastes move on.
Your videos are so great...I’ve been obsessed with your country for so long, so thanks for all the informative and well done videos...Mad respect from NY
In Portugal each family has a different last name but when we get married women have the option to change it or not .
Same goes for most of central europe i would say.
Hrafna, I'm a geologist and I fully understood what you said about electricity in Iceland being generated by hydroelectric (surface water flow through turbines) and geothermal (steam that was formed underground in a hot volcanic terrain which is then run through a turbine). You have a lot of running water and a lot of underground heat! Cheap electricity is why you have the large aluminum refining plants in Iceland.
An interesting fact about Hungary:
BUDAPEST HAS THE HIGHEST NUMBER OF THERMAL SPRINGS IN THE WORLD.
LOVE FROM HU. :)
Icelands geothermal heating is because of their volcano and their underground hot springs. What's super interesting is that because of this, you can actually smell sulfur when you run the water at a hot temperature. (As a foreigner this was super shocking, but super easy to get use to.)
Here in Portugal if you call a teacher by his 1st name, you're gonna be toughly punished🇵🇹
Good
In university is different whit some professors, specially if you are at phd
@@xdeltaptx Yeah
Same here in Germany
Saaaaame in Poland. Recently, there was a case in the news, that some high school student was calling his teacher by his first name, and talking to him per "you" and he was even sued for insulting the public servant. That's very unique sittuation ofc, they usually call parents, knock down behavior mark, maybe he would get expelled in some priva te school, but I don't think so. If that's a single thing.
I am taking a trip to Iceland in October so your little info pack here is very interesting.
"Vigdís Finnbogadóttir is an icon"
Me (an icelander): *nods aggressively*
Hallo wer are you from
In Gaelic traditions, there is also a "son of"/"daughter of"/"grandson of"/"wife of", etc way to do last names, but after colonization in places like Scotland and Ireland by the British it got displaced. You'll still see names with Mc or Mac and O' most commonly which are son of/grandson of (MacNeil, O'Neil for example), but women typically don't use Ni(c), etc, and the name is usually static now.
In Argentina, when there is a party and the cooker makes barbecue we give an applause.
Argentinians know how to throw down a barbeque. 100%.
I love Argentina 🇦🇷, Buenos Aires and Reykjavík are probably my two favorite cities I’ve visited. Greetings from NY ❤️
Using your father's name as your surname dates all the way back to ancient Greece. Where it was common for somebody to be called, for example 'Socrates son of Sophroniscus'. Wonderful channel Hrafna. You have inspired me to read my copy of the translated Islendinga sogur.
Icelandic Dept of tourism needs to hire this absolutely Beautiful ❤️ articulate, knowledgeable, gorgeous, sweet woman!!!!! love you Hrafna 😍
Loved this video! And you’re so pretty! Are all Icelandic so pretty like you? Hahahah sending some love from Brazil 🇧🇷❤️
Actually as i know, the arabs are similar in calling their names. e.g :
Muhammad ebn-e abdullah (muhammad the son of abdollah)
Fatemeh bent-e abdullah (fatemeh the daughter of abdullah)
Not just Arabs, it's the Muslim naming convention in general which behaves similarly to the naming conventions used by the Icelands, Danes, ect
Not just Arabs it's the Muslim naming convention in general that behaves similarly to the naming convention used in Nordic countries
We watched the Icelandic soccer team and a guy named "Siegtorsson"played. In German Siegtor means "victory goal" - fits excellent.
His name is Kolbeinn Sigþórsson. Sigþórsson (the son of Sigþór) would translate victory-Thor. But like she explaned, he's always called by his first name Kolbeinn. Kolbeinn is thought to mean "blackfeet" by professors in Icelandic
@@donellione75 Thanks for clearing - they played excellent, btw. Loved to watch them.
Omg do an Asmr video in Icelandic 😍
EGI why was I thinking the same thing?
I love that name system so much!! In my state in the US we call our elementary (primary) school- high school by their last names so like Mr. “Last name” but in college it’s a mix of Doctor “last name”, Professor “last name” or just their first name!
Your dimples are so cute!
I love the language and beautiful landscape in Iceland,planning to travel in Iceland in 2020!Love your videos too haha!Greetings from China!
Let me just take a moment to apreciate that when you chose an example of respected person, you picked a teacher. From where I'm from, teachers don't get the respect they deserve, or at all, which is sad.
I try to respect teachers that actually teach stuff but sometimes I was very hard xd from USA Pennsylvania
@@austintomkewitz7206 sometimes teaches are just like us, they need a healthy environment to work properly. As children and teenagers is really hard for us to understand that, but I think, and a lot of American movies picture is that all this healthy environment needs trust and humongous doses of good will and humor
I think they just get paid too much but the ones who teach I should've respected them more but I was just caring less and less I barely passed but I'm glad I did because I can forget it now haha
@@austintomkewitz7206 I'm from Brazil. Here they get twice the minimum wage, which is not much at all. At a high school level job, I get around 3x min wage, which again is not very much. Teachers in Brazil are in a bad bad situation. But some still strive for a better world and country.
Edit: the government states that below 5 min wages are borderline poverty
When I was in the art department of my college, all of the professors went by their first names which I appreciated but in general in America at least, you’d typically call a professor or teacher by their last name. Older people in general you might call by their last name but usually first is fine. To be polite you would add Mr./Mrs./Ms. in front.
You look like a Skyrim character which is a good thing lol
Pedro Pierre lol
I'll be visiting Iceland In Feb 2020. Thanks for your videos. Definitely very informative. :)
Funny thing about Sweden is that we're always messing with our
neighboring countries especially Denmark, and of course they are messing with us right back. A common phrase in Swedish is ''Danskjävel!'' which translates too ''Dansih Bastard''. Everytime Denmark is mentioned Swedish people will start saying ''Danskjävel' and mimic their accents xD
Almost all of the Italian people speaking about France and French people 😂
When you clear your throat and your danish friend agrees
Thanks for all your interesting information, I used to live in different countries and in the Netherlands it was pretty normal to call everybody by his first name, even your boss. I think its cool. Now I live in spain and here we also generally use first names,even my son at school towards his teachers. Since I am german and over there we are still kind of stiff and distanced i think it makes us more human to use first names. The daughter/Son addition in your last names is very special and one of the many things you guys can be proud of. Sending you some Sun from Tenerife! Anja
You should collab with Melina Sophie, she’s a German UA-camr but lives with Iceland!
I could listen to you say, asked, all day long! Very cute and entertaining videos!
I think it's awesome that you guys don't have an army! ☺️ I visited Iceland last year and it was so peaceful, so hardly shocking that your government wouldn't consider that a priority! 😂
THE JURASSIC KING Very unlikely as they are members of NATO.
Geothermal energy is used in Iceland because it is very volcanically active, meaning there is a lot of very hot lava near the surface. This heat seeps into the rock and soil and can be harnessed using metal coils buried in the earth. The coils are exposed to the surface on the other end, so the heat from the earth travels through the coils to reach the cold air outside. This is called a "heat current" (have you ever held something metal over a fire, then the part you are holding heats up? Same thing). Because you now have a regular heat flow, you can use this to heat up water, boil it into steam to turn an electric motor etc. It's basically free energy.
Apparently my tounge did not evolve enough to pronounce your name.
I live in agawam, MA in USA and we for sure get window weather lol. We jusy had it the other day. It was -5C° but the sun was out and no clouds lol
What about transgender persons in Iceland? I know the laws and rights are awesome, but how do people in Iceland treat transgender men and women? Are there older folks that are negative toward transgender people? Idk. Kind of have the dream of moving to Iceland later in my life. I am a trans woman! Love youuuu Hrafna, you're videos are amazing, your love of your country is infectious!
There is no transgender people.
Ask here, this is the gay community in Iceland.
facebook.com/samtokin78/
Don't think you'll have any problems but I'm sure there are some assholes here, just like everywhere else.
People look past the disease and try not to show their disgust and some people actually think it´s normal but gay people have it better than transexuals and are not as shunned but i´d say it´s as good as it gets here
@@Minuz1 I'm sure our ancestors are very proud. Being gay in other cultures is different then it is in America. Here is a example for ya. I go to the dog park every day after work for years. All it promotes is a safe place for dogs to run and people are generally nice to one another regardless of their lifestyle. The benches in various locations are a nice earth brown color. Someone decided to come to the park at night when it is closed and paint one of the benches a rainbow color. It was done well and it looks nice, however it was a statement to prove something. I really don't care about someones lifestyle. But to purposely shove it in my face I feel is unnecessary. It is a neutral park but someone had to make me aware of their sexuality. Like really?
Bezerkur a6e yeah that’s just dumb ,but is Iceland homophobic that he/she felt the need to do that ?
I love your accent. Your videos are so cool. Love hearing about your country and culture!!!
It is easier for me to learn Japanse than pronounce your name correctly. rs
But you're gorgeous notwithstand i love your videos.
It´s easy... you only just have to tie a knot to your tongue... then it´s easy...
It varies in the US where most people say a salutation before the last name, and that's usually in below university level education (unless the person wants to flaunt their educational level, then it's Dr. (last name), unless they have a preferred name). University is similar but it's usually Prof/Dr. (last name) or another preferred name they might tell you to call them.
Interesting facts about Norway they love fjords and they love Norway skal bra And best chocolate ever is Freia melchocolade 🍻🍫
I want to visit Norway so badly! I hope I can travel there in a few years. Beautiful country!
@@bettinak.4 you can travel to Norway. Check the Norwegian ambasatey in your area and honestly visit the fjords. They are just beautiful and peaceful. And of course there's infinite nature, hikes, some ski places best in winter, Oslo and there's a really cool sailing place on the south coast of Kristiansand. And the Norwegian chocolate 🍫. Yes!!!!💖🍫🇳🇴🇳🇴
A lot of your power does come from hydro electric and geothermal sources since the island is very seismically active area and has a lot of volcanoes.
It's LGBTQ-RSTUVWXYZ missy 😤😤
@@katrinmaria5670 he is joking 😊
I’m from the US, California to be exact- never lived anywhere else. So I am very much a Californian 😊
I really do love California! It’s becoming painfully expensive to live here, but there are so many things I love about my home state!
I absolutely love the big rolling hills and all the trees! I’m in Sacramento, aptly nicknamed “The City of Trees”. 🌳💗🌲 I love living close to the American River, and I’m not too far away from Lake Tahoe or the ocean!
I have a lot of love for Sacramento, especially the art/music culture. I feel like my city really appreciates and supports the arts! 💖
I like the Icelandic naming system- I’ve thought about it before; mine would be Thomassdaughter, or Tómassdóttir. And if it was matronymic, it would be Kathysdaughter, or Kathysdóttir. (Obviously my mom’s name is Kathy, but the closest Icelandic name to that would be Katrín- so, Katrínsdóttir.)
Funny thing is, my last name follows that tradition, Wilson- “son of Will” (which is cool and all... except for the fact that I’m not a man, lol.)
Also, I kept my maiden name when I got married- my husband has always been fine with that, he wanted it to be my choice, which makes me happy. 💗
His last name happens to be Terwilliger; which is incredibly Dutch, even though ethnically he is very Italian, lol!
Why Iceland has such beautiful girls?!!💙
Because the Norse didn't take the ugly ones back home LMFAO
This is just my opinion. I feel like a lot of people around the world think of Americans as the same. I'm from Colorado. We were the first to overturn alcohol prohibition. First to legalize marijuana. One of the first states to legalize gay marriage outright. I'm a Coloradoan before I'm an American! Love your videos and all the hard work you do!
I love the name system in Iceland we have something similar in Romania but not now like in our grandparents period. I would love to get back to that
5:37 that describes Oklahoma winters perfectly. A lot of blue sky and sunny weather in winter time yet it gets cold, below freezing and no snow. 😞
These videos about Iceland make me want to learn Icelandic and visit your country so much 😭
Love, as always, from Italy 💕
I am from Alaska and our cold weather is from september to about mid april. I relate to cozy nights, movies, and yes ice cream too
I would love to live there- but the cold- heard it is sooooo expensive-and that jobs are hard to find. Lus-- I would have to bring ALL my books!
Here in Brazil we call other people from they first name too!
Thats awesome. Btw, I love you content and channel Hrafna
If you install GBoard you can use both Icelandic and English at the same time without switching. Actually you can set up three different keyboards at the same time.
Also, another interesting fact - thanks to the geothermal heating, the hot water in Icelandic homes contains the smell and taste of sulfur. I'm not sure if it's all houses but the ones I stayed at had them. It can be quite offputting for foreigners but I imagine if you live there you must get used to it.
It´s just in the south but yeah the water in reykjavík smells like shit when you still got a nose for it but it grows on you
Hi, is that true about the high number of metal bands in Iceland? I heard that is a very popular genre over there, btw, have you heard or seen the movie Metalhead, or Málmhaus in Icelandic, I had a hard time to find it but is a very cool movie. Great channel! Keep the good work.
The last name system chanced in the netherlands now. We still have a lot of people called jenssen (Jens’s son) or davidsen (Davids son) but now that will be the last name of boys and girls, so kinda weird. Now we have the last name system like most countries have. Lot of people are called after city’s or proffesions like visser (fisher) or de boer (the farmer).
Suddenly became very interested in Iceland and its language after watching a couple of your videos. I'm swedish and can understand a word here and there it's like old Swedish!
Funny, my family (in northern Minnesota and Wisconsin) calls it window weather, too.
In brazil we always call someone by the first name or a nickname even in pretty formal situations.
I love the fact that you only call people by their first name.............even professors. They do this in the Netherlands too. Living in the US that is very refreshing because it is true, as you pointed out, that is considered rude here. I sort of understand why some/many are offended here and in other places where it is a thing. However, I find it refreshing the way you do it in Iceland and how they do it in the Netherlands because shows that you are not so arrogant or that you are not full of yourselves or bragging if that makes sense.
In Finland has had that same naming system, but the story goes. once the population number got too high we changed it. you can find some examples of it in history books, and of course in Finnish literature like in Kalevala, 'Kullervo Kalervonpoika' ;)
It’s crazy to think that the whole country of Iceland 🇮🇸 has my city’s population in Brazil 🇧🇷 I love your videos and culture!! :))