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At Home in France with the Food Writer Mimi Thorisson

For the food writer Mimi Thorisson, a lot goes on at home - a nineteenth-century house in the Médoc, which she shares with her photographer husband Oddur, seven children and nine dogs.

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Authorities in Iceland say lava from a volcano that erupted early on Sunday appears to have eased. The flow of molten rock destroyed several homes in the small fishing town of Grindavik, as well as its electricity and hot water supply. Excavators have been clearing the main road after lava flowed over it. The town was evacuated on Saturday so there is no immediate danger to life. Grindavik is around 40 kilometres southwest of the capital Reykjavik. For more on this, we talk to Oddur Thordarson, who reports for the Icelandic National Broadcaster RUV News.

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Subglacial Gjalp eruption in 1996.

(Oddur Sigurdsson, Iceland Geological Survey, CC BY)

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Oddur Roth | Painting with Objects from Olly Bharat on Vimeo.

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Müxtəlif alimlər eşqə fərqli təriflər veriblər. Bəziləri eşqi yanan oda, bəziləri isə işıq saçan nura bənzədiblər. Eşq oddur, çünki məşuqdan savayı hər şeyi insanın gözündə yandırıb, təkcə məşuqu saxlayır. Eşq nurdur, çünki işıq saçaraq məşuqun mənzilini göstərir. Lakin bu sözlərin heç biri eşqin həqiqi tərifi deyil. Eşqin nə olduğunu yalnız onu yaşayanlar anlaya bilər.♡

Eşq kitablarda olsa, nə vardı. Eşqi kitablardan öyrənə bilməzsən, sətirlərə yerləşməyəcək qədər bal əzabıdır. Gəl sənə eşqdən danışım. Əvvəlcə kitabları yandır. Eşqi aşiqlərdə axtarma. Eşq aşiqin güzgüsü deyildir, buna görə kor bazarında güzgü satılmaz. Eşq kəlmə deyil ki, dəftərə yazasan, eşq paraqrafları talan edər. Eşqin kitablara yerləşməməsinə səbəb budur. Kitab şərh, yozum işidir, eşq şərhlərlə, yozumlarla yolunu yormaz. Eşqin özü ucu-bucağı görünməyən yoldur. Yolun çuxurundan, palçığından şikayətlənmə. Eşq palçığı nurlandırandır. Unutma! Sən ruh deyilən nur ilə palçıq deyilən bədənin birləşməsindən yarandın...

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Credit: Oddur Thorisson

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Cryptid by Legend from the album Midnight Champion

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messy post but i thought itd be neater in images than dumping it outside a cut. but some masculine and feminine names since i didnt add any examples! left for both images is fem and right masc

First names 

Feminine

Nónni 

Veidi 

Stornu 

Gripári 

Misti

Peri 

Snöeinn 

Línan 

Skínn 

Snöen 

Péroan 

Frostru

Haoúginn 

Hersi 

Gleikur 

Láren 

Ömaran 

Borkur 

Hómmi 

Nagí

Núlfur 

Dásinn 

Sanjur 

Ísan 

Perkur 

Reidi 

Vrinövi 

Runtur 

Heimur 

Pamo 

Ingúri 

Rikarí

Ruiginn 

Niláinn 

Merginn 

Kálinn 

Sólinn 

Mungi 

Jarni 

Maukú

Stjinn 

Lánetu 

Berur 

Linpu 

Stíni 

Framur 

Magú

Keri 

Reidu 

Ördinn 

Tóti 

Masculine

Döuva

Lifio 

Leafa 

Vetur 

Frosinn 

Vébur 

Míva 

Hrenína

Stúrnuan

Eibor 

Póra 

Fía 

Riveida

Vraínn 

Strónen

Sgra

Hrasdó 

Rödur 

Gréppur

Keigo 

Melgá 

Rigninn  

Snjören 

Sársa 

Brégtur 

Söfa 

Kovur 

Mífa 

Bóela  

Ísaro 

Valía 

Trur 

Sálmo 

Doarubi

Mamur 

Háka 

Bjour 

Veiga 

Sigva 

Síso 

Fra 

Hánno 

Jávva 

Ingira 

Lemmá 

Eplinn 

Pera 

Elpsa 

Oddur 

Leikur 

Joná 

some basic notes on names within the language Fríveidislen (from Fríveidouson)! ive additionally got a WIP perchance generator here

General name notes 

[first name][last name] [middle name] 

In legal documents, “of [town]” is additionally added to the end

Last names medium to long length wise, first names short to medium

Names are matrilineal 

-slen  denotes language or ethnicity; equivalent of -ish in Spanish, or -ian in Canadian; mean’s “God’s people”

-inn  in names means “of God’s grace” and is used in first and last names

-ouson  means “blessed by God” and is used for towns and such (potentially locations in general?)

-ur  means “of God’s love” and is used in first names

-dir means “God’s right hand” and is used in last names

-örn means “God’s child” and is used in last names

-an  means “a gift of God” and is used in first names

-en  means “praise of God” and is used in first names

Name endings not meaning something are more modern;

-a  is a masculine first name ending

-o  is a masculine first name ending

-i  is a feminine first name ending

-u  is a feminine first name ending

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The crowd held a memorial service for the glacier marked by poems and speeches.

“This monument is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it,” read a memorial plaque put on the glacier.

The glacier used to cover six miles of ground and is the first of Iceland’s glaciers to disappear, AP reported. Sigurdsson said all Iceland’s glaciers will be gone within 200 years.

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President Guðni Thorlacius Jóhannesson of Iceland visits MIT | MIT News

President Guðni Thorlacius Jóhannesson of Iceland visits MIT | MIT News

Guðni Thorlacius Jóhannesson, the president of Iceland, visited MIT on Friday, engaging in talks with several campus leaders and professors, and touring the Media Lab. Jóhannesson visited the Institute along with a substantial delegation of officials and scholars from Iceland. They met with MIT scholars, who delivered a variety of presentations on research, design, and entrepreneurship; the…

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Oddur Islandshästförening

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When Elliott (Runes, 1959) says „in seventeenth-century Iceland people were still burnt because runes were found in their possession, and it was necessary officially to prohibit the use of runes in 1639“, do you know what he is referring to? His source is Arntz (Handbuch der Runenkunde, 1935, 2nd ed, 1944), as is Jones/Pennick‘s in History of Pagan Europe (only other place I found this mentioned so far).

I'm not sure. Best I could manage for finding it in Arntz was searching "1639" and "verbrennen"/"Verbrennung" in the Google Books preview, to no effect. According to Björn Jónsson á Skarðsá, Oddur Jónsson was whipped at the alþing for having papers/pages of "superstition" (hindurvitnis blöð) and the pages burnt, but he doesn't specify what was on them. The Icelandic Witchcraft museum says that those pages had runes on them but I don't know where they're getting that from or if it's interpretive, and in any case they certainly also had other things that were more explicitly forbidden so I don't think the presence of runes would tell us anything.

There was a strong association between illegal magic and runes at the time but as far as I know that has more to do with people who did or were suspected of doing magic also happened to be the ones who knew the most about runes. Mostly I'm talking about Jón lærði, specifically. It wouldn't be too surprising if bishops either thought of runes as the smoke indicating the fire of sorcery, or of banning runes as a way of preventing sorcery without them being sorcery themselves. When the same aforementioned Björn á Skarðsá wrote his essay on runes that survives in a bunch of manuscripts, he dedicated a whole chapter to explaining that no, runes are -- contrary to many people's belief -- actually not inherently evil. But it would surprise me if they managed to get them officially banned three years after Ole Worm published the first edition of Runir seu Danica literatura antiquissima, and more than a decade after Worm had started using Icelanders as informants about runes.

I don't think it's out of the question that some people may have banned or attempted to ban them within certain districts temporarily; I just am not turning up evidence for it. What I'm seeing more of is "These Icelanders said Jón lærði was using galdrastafir (=illegal), but the Danish officials determined they were just regular runes (=legal)."

Jón lærði complained about how nowadays (the mid-1600's) they prosecuted people over petty little harmless magic things, when in the good ol' days (the 1400's) you could get away with anything as long as you weren't causing harm to someone. If we're to take that seriously (as Einar G. Pétursson does in his edition of some works by Jón lærði, and points out that this makes sense with the coming of Protestantism) then the word "still" does not belong in the Elliott quotation. If there was concern about regular málrúnir, it was probably a new phenomenon.

Elliott could be pulling a bait-and-switch (or maybe Arntz is). Elliott is a serious scholar but heavily biased toward seeing runes as inherently, first-and-foremost magical. He might be allowing a failure of specificity to make one thing (["runes" = magic symbols] were banned) imply another thing ([málrúnir] were banned). If someone has access to the Arntz book it would be very helpful to see what he cites.