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Icelandic
/ aɪsˈlændɪk /
adjective
- of, relating to, or characteristic of Iceland, its people, or their language
noun
- See Old Icelandicthe official language of Iceland, belonging to the North Germanic branch of the Indo-European family See also Old Icelandic
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Other Words From
- an·ti-Ice·lan·dic adjective
- pro-Ice·lan·dic adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of Icelandic1
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Example Sentences
Buy a pair of these and traipse around a big city center or off road through the Icelandic countryside.
The government-supported Icelandic Literary Fund supports publishers, translators, and writers.
Arnaldur Indridason, an Icelandic crime writer, has been translated into twenty languages.
She worked with Eliza Reid, a Canadian based in the Icelandic capital, to set up the gathering.
It was Independent People, by Nobel laureate Haldor Laxness, that put modern Icelandic literature on the global map.
All that is known of the early voyages of the Northmen, is contained in the old Icelandic Sagas.
Angerboda, the Icelandic hag, is also a storm demon, but represents the east wind.
The Icelandic saga-men never weary, though modern readers do, of legal details.
But, in any case, one Icelandic house of the tenth or eleventh century might differ from another in certain details.
As examples we turn to the parallel afforded by the Icelandic sagas and their pictures of houses of the eleventh century B.C.
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