Two centuries ago experts predicted that Icelandic would be a dead language by now. But the doomsayers can eat their words: Icelandic is alive and kicking despite an onslaught of English brought on by ...

Katrín Jakobsdóttir and her co-author want the 350,000 people who speak the language to fight for its future Iceland’s former prime minister, Katrín Jakobsdóttir, has said that the Icelandic language ...

When the University of Iceland got its first computer in 1964, Icelandic did not have a word for “computer.” So the guardians of the language invented one: tölva—a fusion of tala (number) and völva ...

Reykjavik (AFP) – In Iceland's parliament, six cleaners take a break from their duties to spend time learning Icelandic, seen as one of the principal barriers to integration in the country. Of the ...

Although an Icelandic version of "Dracula" was published in 1900, English-speaking researchers did not discover until the 2010s that it was drastically different from Bram Stoker's original novel and ...

Still from the 1958 horror film 'Dracula' starring Christopher Lee. The character of Dracula has appeared in more than 200 films. Wikimedia Commons The Icelandic version of Dracula is called Powers of ...

Two centuries ago experts predicted that Icelandic would be a dead language by now. But the doomsayers can eat their words: Icelandic is alive and kicking despite an onslaught of English brought on by ...