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Karítas Hrundar Pálsdóttir’s ‘Árstíðir’: Learning Icelandic Through Literature
For many languages, there are standards of literature that help ease the intrepid polyglot into the new dialect. When I studied French in college, the standard was ‘Les Jeux Sont Faits,’ Sartre’s staple of existentialist French Literature. It accomplished the task of…
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Reading Comprehension Poor Among Icelandic Teenagers
The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) has released a new survey done by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), which found that reading comprehension in Iceland is much poorer than in other countries. The survey was conducted among 15…
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Last Words: Novels And TV Shows
It would be an understatement to say that I like novels more than I do TV series. I‘m making this slightly obnoxious declaration for a reason: increasingly, I‘ve been hearing people compare the two (very different) story-telling forms. “Watching [insert name of…
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22% Of Icelandic Children Show Difficulties In Reading Their Own Language
The richness of Icelandic children’s lexicon, as well as their level of comprehension of their own language, has been dangerously decreasing during the past hundred years. In 2015, it was calculated through the so-called PISA test (Programme for International Student Assessment) that Iceland…
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Neil Gaiman’s Norse Mythology: The Greatest Hits
Neil Gaiman, one of the world’s most beloved genre-bending fiction writers has written a retelling of Norse Mythology. The slow arc of a short-handled hammer glinting in the never-ending summer sunlight and the flame of Thor’s golden beard framing a terrible battle-cry.…
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A Beginner’s Guide To Icelandic Literature
Whether you don’t understand a word of Icelandic but want to get familiar with the country’s literature, or you have some degree of Icelandic comprehension and want a good beginner’s guide, there is a wealth of choices at your disposal. It’s important…