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    Kveðjur frá Íslandi

    I'd go with: Stórbrjósta og rassgóð ljóska (Big hootered) (and) (well-assed) (blonde) I can't personally think of a single word for that but someone else might Thank you for the welcome You correct Our language is the closest you'll get to Old Norse. Oddly enough our language did not...
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    Kveðjur frá Íslandi

    Thanks for the welcome What? Why and how? Did she pick it herself? Hoh hoh hoh No, we have a committee for that these days People just picked names in the old days, my town is called Sauðárkrókur which means sheep-river-hook because there's a river going through the town that's called...
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    Kveðjur frá Íslandi

    The eruption ended yesterday, too bad for tourism :( BUT! Just now a huge volcanic eruption has started under Eyjafjallajökull, a bit west of the old one! People are being evacuated and everything. Massive floods and ashfall and all. It might be a hindrance for air traffic in the coming...
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    Kveðjur frá Íslandi

    That's neat, but I'll guess I'll just have to cancel the reservations I made :þ And thanks, I dunt wunt to get banned
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    Kveðjur frá Íslandi

    Well, not according to this calendar: http://www.hlidarfjall.is/opnunartimar/ But it just so happens that's my birthday
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    Kveðjur frá Íslandi

    Good, if you like woolen undies ;þ
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    Kveðjur frá Íslandi

    Well, a part of the plan is to press all of the US under the bottom of the sea... so don't worry about it! ;)
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    Kveðjur frá Íslandi

    Thanks, I hope you'll work your way down to Iceland one day
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    Kveðjur frá Íslandi

    Damn! Sounds fun! I hope you saw everything you set out to see That food being expensive is so typical. When you get to the middle of nowhere and there are no competing diners, that's what can happen :D Thanks for the welcome
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    Kveðjur frá Íslandi

    Thanks! :)
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    Kveðjur frá Íslandi

    Great! I hope you have good fun. I really can't say much about Reykjavík except for http://www.players.is/ which is a sports bar. Reykjavík is too huge for me man :D I guess you'll be fine if you manage too find the centre, which - oddly enough - is not at the actual geographical centre of...
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    Kveðjur frá Íslandi

    Eg segi allt gott, þakka þer fyrir! En hvernig hefur þu það. Rennur kannski Islenskt bloð i æðum þer? :þ Afsakaðu samt að suma serislenska stafi vantar! Eg er að nota bilað lyklaborð X_X
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    Kveðjur frá Íslandi

    So, here's the deal Ragnar - norrænt, af rögn: máttarvöld, goð, og -ar: hermaður Translates to: Ragnar - Norse, comes from - "rögn" : Power(-ful or -s I think), god(-s, the Æsir) - "-ar" : Warror/Soldier I always say it means warrior of the gods...
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    Kveðjur frá Íslandi

    Looks correct to me too! I guess that's unicode for ya! Thank you! :P
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    Kveðjur frá Íslandi

    Sorry for the late reply! I didn't expect anyone to notice my greetings :þ I think there used to be a big homebrewing culture here and that now it's getting popular again because of the economy crisis and heavy alchohol taxation You are allowed to make wine and a lot of the equipment is...
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