Icelandic Phrasebook

Icelandic is one of the oldest living languages in the world, largely unchanged from Old Norse.

Iceland has no word for 'please' — gjörðu svo vel (do so well) is the closest equivalent.

The letter Þ (thorn) is the 'th' sound in English words like 'the' or 'think'.

Icelandic names follow patronymic tradition — children take their father's first name + son/dóttir.

The word 'geysir' comes directly from Icelandic — named after the famous Geysir hot spring.