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Lost In Google Translation: Music Sickness?
If you’re looking for an Icelandic meal to give you food poisoning this summer, boy do we have the article for you! A piece ran in RÚV recently with the headline “Sex Sjúklegar Íslenskar Sumarplötur,” or “Six Sickly Icelandic Summer Plates,” so…
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Study Finds Google Translate Is Sexist
A study finds that using Google translate for English to Icelandic translations has gender bias, reports Frettablaðið. [su_pullquote]Who better to ask what’s best in Reykjavík than the people who live here? Every year we round up a panel of experts and enthusiasts…
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Lost In Google Translation: Cetacean Roe
Hear ye, hear ye, biologists! A headline from today reads: The minke whale has laid six eggs. An egg laying whale? Could global warming be the cause of this bizarre anomaly? I picture eggs the size of cars floating about the surface…
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French Translator Takes Significant Liberties With Hugleikur Dagsson Comic
Icelandic comic artist Hugleikur Dagsson was surprised to discover that a French translation of one of his comics completely changed the written text. The comic in question, from his book Elskið Okkur (“Love Us”), depicts a person laying on the ground, bleeding…
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Best In Translation: Our Picks Of The 2018’s Best English-Translated Icelandic Literature
2018 was a year of travel for Icelandic fiction, with the number of titles published in translation tripling from a mere decade ago. Here are some favourites that we have been passing around the Grapevine offices this year. Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir –…
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Nationalising Words: Literature As A Means Of Bridging Iceland With The World
Unlike in most European languages, þýða, the Icelandic word for translation, denotes translation as the act of nationalising a foreign word, making the meaning agreeable to Icelanders. For Rúnar Helgi Vignisson, a well-established Icelandic writer, translator and associate professor at the University…
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Get Your Read On: Wayward Heroes & The Creator
If you want the joy of reading a piece of Icelandic literature without the hassle of learning Icelandic, then these two novels, now translated into English, are a great place to start. Halldór Laxness – Wayward Heroes When ‘Wayward Heroes’ (‘Gerpla’, in…
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New App For Learning Icelandic Launches This Week
An ambitious new app that falls somewhere between a social networking site and a translating service is about to hit the iTunes store in Iceland. Accent, which is being launched exclusively in Iceland this week, is the brainchild of a team of…