This is very interesting. They have not yet found any remains of dinosaurs in Iceland, the youngest landmass in Europe, only 15 million years old. I have never seen or heard all these names in Icelandic. Thanks Dr. Crawford. Einar
Though we are not as active at this in Sweden, we do have some "native" names as well. These are mostly for the high-level clades and are somewhat archaic. Dinosaurs can be called "skräcködlor," which is just a direct translation meaning terror-lizards; similar to Icelandic pterosaurs can be called "flygödlor," flying-lizards, plesiosaurs "svanödlor," swan-lizards, and ichthyosaurs "fisködlor," fish-lizards.
and Stegosaurs were Taködlor (dont think alot of swedes recognize them by that name today). In my modern ears it doesnt square well, sounds more like a small modern lizard that likes to be on structures, like many lizards do. See for example Murödlor, modern wall lizards (a group of Palearctic lacertid lizards). But yeah -ödlor itself is a bit of a archaic convention from what we know of dinosaurs today, and other mesozoic reptiles.
IIRC Triceratops can be called "trehörning"' sometimes (Similar to the second icelandic name at 5:52). Different from "Taködla" I would expect most Swedes to understand this one in context (It being an extremely obvious name of course). To lift another one you can call Archeopteryx "urfågel". Should be understandable in context due to being obvious too. It's more of a class than an overall name though so could also be used more widely than only Archeopteryx. BTW Rhinoceros is also "noshörning" in Swedish, but I don't think I've ever heard of it as (part of) a name for Triceratops.
The funny thing about dinosaur names in Icelandic is that no (non-avian) dinosaur ever roamed Iceland. The oldest rocks on the island are only 18 million years old.
Growing up, we would visit South Dakota every summer. Our dad would take us to the South Dakota School Of Mines and Technology museum. The dinosaur fossils were always the best. Thank you for sharing this.
I love how this video combinds my fascination for dinosaurs and the Icelandic language, never thought I'd find a video that talks about dinosaurs in Icelandic but this video here made my day! 😍🤩🦖🦕
I always thought it would be appropriate to have a common name for dinosaurs based on the region it was found. Megalosaurus was found in Wales? Maybe Mawrdraig? Plesiosaurus was found in England so maybe Neck? Archaeopteryx was found in Germany so may be Urvögel.
I've gotten into groups of people who are trying to revive OE (&/or Gothic) as a living language, & the attempt is made to do what Icelanders have done in creating new vocabulary from the existing lexicon (instead of relying on the Greco-Roman, etc., loans that Mod. Eng. uses) for technological, & scientific terms, etc.; it is very interesting to see what human creativity comes up w/ in this process.
Given where you were digging, the troodontid tooth you found might have been Pectinodon. The name Troodon itself is up in the air right now regarding its validity, but I'd still love to see your Icelandic name catch on
I don't know any Icelandic dinosaur names, but I do know the dragon "Katla" from Astrid Lindgren's "Bröderne Lejonhjärta" (The Brothers Lionheart) -- I assume it's named after the volcano by that name in Iceland.
I had to pause the video to stop having new thoughts until I am done with this one, but I had discovered something cool about the word for Eagle pertaining to Utah raptors and it had to do with high places, mountainous places or something like what Ute means anyhow, but I cannot remember it, sadly, so I will keep trying to think of it. Wish my kids were here, I told them excitedly about it when I discovered it... it had to do with a scripture reference of all things as well, Matthew 24 I think...maybe we were just talking about Örn versus Önd, then I found Örn verses... anyhow, it seemed noteworthy.
2:16 The good bit, for Jackson and friends at least, about the movie’s “Velociraptors” is that they’re based on Deinonychus, a North American fossil, not the actually turkey-sized Velociraptors from Asia. Perhaps they have a Deinonychus at the museum? 😊
While basically true, language is pretty fluid. Raptor may be Latin for "thief, ravisher, plunderer" etc, but since it was adopted by other languages, it gained the additional meaning of "bird-of-prey." It is perfectly acceptable to say that. It's a nice bonus to know the origin of the word, though. I kinda geek-out about that sorta thing myself.
It's not like the Icelanders are completely cut off from the rest of the world. They live in the 21st century and have access to all the same information as any other developed country.
Icelanders could make a more Icelandic name for the Jurassic. The name of the Jura in France originates from the Gaulish "jor" and that can be adapted to Icelandic as "jór-" as in "Jórvìk" (York) and "Jórsalir" (Jerusalem). But "Jór-" isn't enough. The Jura are the threshold of the Alps, a bit older and the Old Icelandic name for the Alps was "Mundíufjöll", a corruption of the Latin "Mons Jovis" (Mountains of Jupiter). I would use "Jórmundíufjöll" for the Jura and the prefix "Jórmundíu-tímabilið" for the Jurassic, Risaeðlagarður or Jórmundíugarður for "Jurassic Park". Another possible nam for the Jura mountains is "Búrgundarskógur", like "Svartiskógur" (Schwarzwald). And there is "eðlumiðöld" (middle-ages of the lizards for the Jurassic and "MiðlífsKVÖLD" for the Cretaceous and simply "þríöld" for the triassic. The Cretaceous were named after the island of Crete and refers to the chalk rocks but the chalk Cliffs of Dover have the same age. I would use "Kantaraõld" (The Kentaceous), "Kantaraborg" is the Icelandic name for Canterbury. "kantara-" contains all the consonants of the "Crete", so "Kantaraöld" (Canter-aceous) or "Miðlífskvöld" (mezozoic eve).
There should be non-license plate license plates for out of staters, like the kind that sports fans display in States that don't require front and rear license plates.
I am missing something here. Why would someone carry a knife. Genuine question. (I would have thought it was illegal - here it would be going armed inpublic.)
Useful as a tool. I often carry a pocket knife/Swiss army knife as daily carry because of its usefulness for random tasks. Of course it's a small blade; small enough that according to my local laws (Sweden) I do not really require a particular "reason" to carry it around (although I think my local laws are a bit fuzzy about the exact blade length allowed...) Of course larger blades are allowed when it can be motivated, e.g: if I'm going camping, or say if I'm a builder or a chef going to my workplace etc. The one in the video would probably not be ok here in the city without a really good reason, but carry it while in nature and nobody would care much. I think in most european countries you'd be allowed when it can be well motivated that you are carrying it for/towards a particular use as a tool. Even in the oddly knife-paranoid UK. Else chefs would have a hard time cooking. Of course, I would expect the US to be overall more lenient depending on state, I mean they get to carry guns which is only useful as a weapon.
Some timestamps:
00:00 The Morrison Natural History Museum
01:02 Mesozoic, Jurassic, Cretaceous
01:21 A scene from Júragarðurinn (Jurassic Park). Courtesy Universal Pictures.
02:59 Stegosaurus (kambeðla)
04:26 Brontosaurus/Apatosaurus (þórseðla)
05:03 Allosaurus (vígeðla / skolleðla)
05:52 Triceratops (nashyrningseðla / þríhyrningseðla)
07:02 Tyrannosaurus (grameðla)
07:45 Nanotyrannus (smágramur)
08:21 Utahraptor (klóskelfir)
10:18 A proposal regarding Troodon
12:53 Other Mesozoic animals: pterosaurs and mosasaurs
The last time I was this early for a Jackson Crawford video, the Þórseðla still walked the earth.
Icelander here, this was an unexpected find! Interesting stuff
i had a fever dream where Samuel L Jackson Crawford yelled at me about all these M-Fing Jotunn on this M-Fing plane (Midgard of course)
Last time I was this early for a Jackson Crawford video, the Vikings still rode dinosaurs into battle.
I enjoyed Dr. Bakker's Raptor Red, too! Cool origin story for _All the best._
Fortunately, they still do.
I know it's a bit late for the Jurassic Park people but the reason dinosaurs have so much in common with birds is that birds ARE dinosaurs.
This is very interesting. They have not yet found any remains of dinosaurs in Iceland, the youngest landmass in Europe, only 15 million years old. I have never seen or heard all these names in Icelandic. Thanks Dr. Crawford. Einar
Though we are not as active at this in Sweden, we do have some "native" names as well. These are mostly for the high-level clades and are somewhat archaic. Dinosaurs can be called "skräcködlor," which is just a direct translation meaning terror-lizards; similar to Icelandic pterosaurs can be called "flygödlor," flying-lizards, plesiosaurs "svanödlor," swan-lizards, and ichthyosaurs "fisködlor," fish-lizards.
The Swedish names more accurately convey the idea than the English ones.
and Stegosaurs were Taködlor (dont think alot of swedes recognize them by that name today). In my modern ears it doesnt square well, sounds more like a small modern lizard that likes to be on structures, like many lizards do. See for example Murödlor, modern wall lizards (a group of Palearctic lacertid lizards). But yeah -ödlor itself is a bit of a archaic convention from what we know of dinosaurs today, and other mesozoic reptiles.
And what about the "gråtrunködlor"?
IIRC Triceratops can be called "trehörning"' sometimes (Similar to the second icelandic name at 5:52). Different from "Taködla" I would expect most Swedes to understand this one in context (It being an extremely obvious name of course).
To lift another one you can call Archeopteryx "urfågel". Should be understandable in context due to being obvious too. It's more of a class than an overall name though so could also be used more widely than only Archeopteryx.
BTW Rhinoceros is also "noshörning" in Swedish, but I don't think I've ever heard of it as (part of) a name for Triceratops.
Both 'swan lizards' - svaneøgle and 'fly(ing) lizards' - flyveøgle, were also used in Danish, at least some 26 years ago.
Now you have to do another with Reconstructed Old Norse pronunciation of Modern Icelandic dinosaur names!
I figure that Dr. Crawford would make a decent DM for a Dungeons and Dragons campaign.
4:18 But what do they call the Thagomizer in Icelandic?
That's the real question!
the entire history of the universe has curated this video specifically for me
The funny thing about dinosaur names in Icelandic is that no (non-avian) dinosaur ever roamed Iceland. The oldest rocks on the island are only 18 million years old.
absolutely perfect combination of topics, but the cherry on top was the extra Dr C lore you dropped in there :')
Growing up, we would visit South Dakota every summer. Our dad would take us to the South Dakota School Of Mines and Technology museum. The dinosaur fossils were always the best. Thank you for sharing this.
Since brontosaurus literally means thunder lizard it’s pretty on the nose when it’s called “Thor’s lizard” in Icelandic.
If I wasn't on the other side of the atlantic ocean, I would totally come for Stegosaurus Day!
Gramethla - sounds like the villain in a fantasy novel!
Sorry, gonna have to steal that. (Sorry, not sorry.)
"Deceit Lizard" is a particularly wounding insult.
I love how this video combinds my fascination for dinosaurs and the Icelandic language, never thought I'd find a video that talks about dinosaurs in Icelandic but this video here made my day! 😍🤩🦖🦕
I always thought it would be appropriate to have a common name for dinosaurs based on the region it was found. Megalosaurus was found in Wales? Maybe Mawrdraig? Plesiosaurus was found in England so maybe Neck? Archaeopteryx was found in Germany so may be Urvögel.
1:55 yo that one cloud in the background is crazy gorgeous
This was a very fun and informative confluence of interests. Thank you.
The crossover we needed ❤
I've gotten into groups of people who are trying to revive OE (&/or Gothic) as a living language, & the attempt is made to do what Icelanders have done in creating new vocabulary from the existing lexicon (instead of relying on the Greco-Roman, etc., loans that Mod. Eng. uses) for technological, & scientific terms, etc.; it is very interesting to see what human creativity comes up w/ in this process.
Literally a perfect video!
Wait... does the president of Iceland get to decide the official Icelandic names of dinosaurs? That's one heck of a job perk!
I wish that was me
I just finished reading Raptor Red to my kid!
Given where you were digging, the troodontid tooth you found might have been Pectinodon. The name Troodon itself is up in the air right now regarding its validity, but I'd still love to see your Icelandic name catch on
Uncle Crawford teaching us here younglings never to underestimate your opponent!
I don't know any Icelandic dinosaur names, but I do know the dragon "Katla" from Astrid Lindgren's "Bröderne Lejonhjärta" (The Brothers Lionheart) -- I assume it's named after the volcano by that name in Iceland.
I had to pause the video to stop having new thoughts until I am done with this one, but I had discovered something cool about the word for Eagle pertaining to Utah raptors and it had to do with high places, mountainous places or something like what Ute means anyhow, but I cannot remember it, sadly, so I will keep trying to think of it. Wish my kids were here, I told them excitedly about it when I discovered it... it had to do with a scripture reference of all things as well, Matthew 24 I think...maybe we were just talking about Örn versus Önd, then I found Örn verses... anyhow, it seemed noteworthy.
2:16 The good bit, for Jackson and friends at least, about the movie’s “Velociraptors” is that they’re based on Deinonychus, a North American fossil, not the actually turkey-sized Velociraptors from Asia. Perhaps they have a Deinonychus at the museum? 😊
Dinos!
It made me sad learning later in life that Raptor did not actually mean bird of prey. 😢 it means thief
While basically true, language is pretty fluid. Raptor may be Latin for "thief, ravisher, plunderer" etc, but since it was adopted by other languages, it gained the additional meaning of "bird-of-prey." It is perfectly acceptable to say that. It's a nice bonus to know the origin of the word, though. I kinda geek-out about that sorta thing myself.
There's a slight video/audio desync, but also very interesting video!
Iceland is all igneous rock. It is a remote island. The chances of finding a dinosaur fossil there should approximate absolute zero.
It's not like the Icelanders are completely cut off from the rest of the world. They live in the 21st century and have access to all the same information as any other developed country.
yes
what is your point?
In the reenactment, was that literally the same actor that played the snotty kid in the movie?
These are awesome to know!
Jag vill att de ska heta "Torsödla" på Svenska!
come for the dinosaurs, stay for the OG (Original Godzilla) lip-synch
If i remember correctly mosasaurs are translated simply as moseðlur.
What about Saurophaganax? "The Lord of the Lizard Eaters"... Do they have a specific name? What would a direct translation be?
And June 20 Lokiceratops is published. Are you sure you don't have a successful side-hustle as a paleontologist?
Struggling to think of an English, or other Germanic cognate with "eđla". Is it perhaps related to the folk word "eft", "newt"?
What’s another word for Thorsaurus?
Doc, that's an interesting knife substitute.
Since you're talking about the knife that you do pull, I'll give you a pass on this.
Fun fact, birds are reptiles
Yeeah vikingsaurs
thank goodness UA-cam offered a "translate to English" option on your comment
@beepboop204 huh? It was a made up word. What did it come across as?
@@nobodyexceptme7794 Yeeah viking saurs
THANKS UA-cam!
(Eye Brows)
KILLOSAURUS
Birds are reptiles
Icelanders could make a more Icelandic name for the Jurassic. The name of the Jura in France originates from the Gaulish "jor" and that can be adapted to Icelandic as "jór-" as in "Jórvìk" (York) and "Jórsalir" (Jerusalem). But "Jór-" isn't enough. The Jura are the threshold of the Alps, a bit older and the Old Icelandic name for the Alps was "Mundíufjöll", a corruption of the Latin "Mons Jovis" (Mountains of Jupiter). I would use "Jórmundíufjöll" for the Jura and the prefix "Jórmundíu-tímabilið" for the Jurassic, Risaeðlagarður or Jórmundíugarður for "Jurassic Park". Another possible nam for the Jura mountains is "Búrgundarskógur", like "Svartiskógur" (Schwarzwald). And there is "eðlumiðöld" (middle-ages of the lizards for the Jurassic and "MiðlífsKVÖLD" for the Cretaceous and simply "þríöld" for the triassic. The Cretaceous were named after the island of Crete and refers to the chalk rocks but the chalk Cliffs of Dover have the same age. I would use "Kantaraõld" (The Kentaceous), "Kantaraborg" is the Icelandic name for Canterbury. "kantara-" contains all the consonants of the "Crete", so "Kantaraöld" (Canter-aceous) or "Miðlífskvöld" (mezozoic eve).
There should be non-license plate license plates for out of staters, like the kind that sports fans display in States that don't require front and rear license plates.
I am missing something here. Why would someone carry a knife. Genuine question. (I would have thought it was illegal - here it would be going armed inpublic.)
Useful as a tool. I often carry a pocket knife/Swiss army knife as daily carry because of its usefulness for random tasks. Of course it's a small blade; small enough that according to my local laws (Sweden) I do not really require a particular "reason" to carry it around (although I think my local laws are a bit fuzzy about the exact blade length allowed...)
Of course larger blades are allowed when it can be motivated, e.g: if I'm going camping, or say if I'm a builder or a chef going to my workplace etc. The one in the video would probably not be ok here in the city without a really good reason, but carry it while in nature and nobody would care much.
I think in most european countries you'd be allowed when it can be well motivated that you are carrying it for/towards a particular use as a tool. Even in the oddly knife-paranoid UK. Else chefs would have a hard time cooking.
Of course, I would expect the US to be overall more lenient depending on state, I mean they get to carry guns which is only useful as a weapon.
Amazing video as always!
That casual nose scritch with the raptor claw sent me.