My Icelandic Inbox

Peter Rukavina

I’m deep into “finding places to stay and things to do in Iceland” mode this week, planning for our family trip there in late September. When you spend time corresponding with Íslendingur, you start to see interesting names flow into your inbox:

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Icelandic has an interesting alphabet and Icelanders have interesting interesting names.

If I understand the system properly, then my name would have ended up as Peter Normsson and Oliver’s name would be Oliver Petersson.

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