Dec 29: 57th birthday and Michael Ridpath's blogs

Today is my 57th birthday. I know, I can't possibly be so old... but there you are.


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Hann (hún) á afmæli í dag

Coming towards the end of this blog's year long post-a-day effort. More to come on my plans for what happens next over the next few days.

Here are some more excellent images of Iceland's landscape, by Jan Erik Waider.


Also came across some new Icelandic links today from the author Michael Ridpath. He is the author of a Crime Series set in Iceland with a detective called Magnus Jonson. Here is the first in the series:


He also writes a blog about the process of researching the novels that he undertakes, which involves some work learning the Icelandic language.

Here he is on learning some colloquial phrases for his books:

My favourite is ‘Hvalreki!’ which means ‘Beached whale!’ It’s an expression of joy at good fortune, and refers to the glee an Icelander in times past would feel if he woke up one morning to find an enormous whale lying on the beach in front of his house. Whales provided massive quantities of meat and oil, which was very valuable before petroleum was discovered. It’s the Icelandic equivalent of striking gold, and is used in a similarly metaphorical way as that expression.

And here are some of the books he uses...

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