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Birna Anna Björnsdóttir

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Writer. Icelander in New York.

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Icelandair just announced it’s switching to Coke after years of Pepsi. I hope you’re ok Pepsi.

06.03.2026 15:19 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Icelandair just announced it’s switching to Coke after years of Pepsi. I hope you’re ok Pepsi.

06.03.2026 15:19 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

PSA from an Icelander in NYC: If you don’t have snow boots, put on some warm socks, put plastic bags on your feet over your socks and then put on your shoes. Tried and true. ❄️

24.02.2026 13:31 👍 22 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0

Þetta er rosalegt!

22.02.2026 02:50 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Þetta klassíska lobster roll humarsalat er með smátt söxuðu selleríi, hef tekið þá hugmynd inn í rækjusalat, mjög gott.

21.02.2026 20:53 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Réttur sem er vinsæll hér á norðausturströnd USA eru lobster rolls sem er léttristað (á pönnu með smjöri) pylsubrauð með majones-humarsalati. Hef oft hugsað að íslenska gamla góða rækjusalatið mætti bera fram svona.

21.02.2026 20:15 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

The pace is also a huge difference, we make the final, final edits and six weeks later we have a book in hand.

18.02.2026 14:31 👍 83 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0

If you’re cracking a raw egg and putting It on the pan or in a recipe, you must crush the eggshell fully in your fist before throwing it away, otherwise a fisherman will die. Crushing the eggshell is called: saving a fisherman’s life. (Icelandic superstition.)

13.02.2026 19:26 👍 91 🔁 11 💬 5 📌 4

If you’re cracking a raw egg and putting It on the pan or in a recipe, you must crush the eggshell fully in your fist before throwing it away, otherwise a fisherman will die. Crushing the eggshell is called: saving a fisherman’s life. (Icelandic superstition.)

13.02.2026 19:26 👍 91 🔁 11 💬 5 📌 4

Oh wow, you are absolutely an Íslandsvinur!

06.02.2026 15:59 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Liquorice does not exist outside of Scandinavia. (Sorry, I don’t make the rules.)

06.02.2026 15:24 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

IcelandBFF maybe!

06.02.2026 13:24 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

Like those who visited before him, he will now always be referred to as Íslandsvinur, friend of Iceland.

06.02.2026 13:22 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 4 📌 0
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Thrilled to see my cousin @hildur.bsky.social ‘s novel in one of my all time favorite bookstores, Three Lives & Company in New York City.

04.02.2026 22:04 👍 29 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

Icelandic uses various animal poop in insults. Examples: Sparðatíningur (lamb poop picking) = you’re nitpicking. Kríuskítur (arctic tern poop) = you’re super pale. Tittlingaskítur (small bird poop) = doesn’t matter/small fry. Taðskegglingur (horse poop beard) = you’ve such a bad/nonexistent beard.

03.02.2026 17:53 👍 146 🔁 48 💬 4 📌 2

They’re so dangerous!

27.01.2026 13:58 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Close your horizontal crack, lokaðu þverrifunni, in Icelandic, sounds so formal next to the Hungarian way.

23.01.2026 14:19 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Einhver stelur hráefni og selur í búð og vill svo prósentu af brauðinu sem fólk bakar úr því.

23.01.2026 13:49 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Sunnefa er svo fallegt nafn. Ætli Efa hafi verið til líka?

22.01.2026 14:51 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

In Icelandic we say óþekktarormur for a bad child, it means badly behaved worm. But then we use ormur, worm, for short, which usually just means child, and can even be affectionate.

21.01.2026 17:52 👍 61 🔁 4 💬 3 📌 0

Exactly! You could even say rúsínurassgatsormur if someone is being exceptionally cute.

21.01.2026 17:58 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

you know it!

21.01.2026 17:55 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

In Icelandic we say óþekktarormur for a bad child, it means badly behaved worm. But then we use ormur, worm, for short, which usually just means child, and can even be affectionate.

21.01.2026 17:52 👍 61 🔁 4 💬 3 📌 0
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Hin óviðjafnanlega íslenska vetrarsól - Winter’s sun in Iceland

06.01.2026 18:45 👍 27 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

Já, ég held að 2026 verði árið þar sem reykingar fara low key að laumast inn aftur.

16.01.2026 21:03 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Og já, ég er nógu 👵🏻 til að muna þegar bókstaflega allir reyktu bókstaflega allsstaðar.

16.01.2026 19:31 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

Er ekki að segja að símar hafi komið í staðinn fyrir sígarettur en halló hvað er þétt fylgni á milli þess að fólk hætti að reykja og fór að skrolla í símunum sínum. Sama dæmið, eitthvað að gera með höndunum, og róa taugarnar, og vera ekki vandræðaleg á almannafæri, halló!

16.01.2026 19:29 👍 11 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Ég að útskýra handbolta fyrir Ameríkönum: It's kindof like a mix of soccer and basketball, but a bit more violent.

16.01.2026 16:24 👍 12 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

að fara í dekur

15.01.2026 15:21 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Omg, I remember a similar PSA years ago from Alaska.

15.01.2026 14:37 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0