Ireland and Iceland UNITE against Britain

Lirange · 06-02-2010 11:04PM

m@cc@ wrote: »

No, I meant Celtic.

That's a cultural term.

Tchaikovsky · 06-02-2010 11:09PM

Iceland was supposedly discovered by Irish monks, who promptly skeddadled once the Vikings arrived. Seeing as they were monks, I'm guessing they didn't reproduce while they were there and spread the Celtic seed

They were known as the Westmen and Vestmannaeyjar, the island in the south-west of Iceland (and where Hermann Hreidarsson is from) is named after them

fuelinjection · 06-02-2010 11:20PM

I like this Icelandic President. Someone post him over an Irish breakfast.

But we don't need to join with them as we are in Europe and they soon will be I reckon after the banking fiasco. Iceland has always been a 'protectorate' of Denmark - the Danes look after defence, airports and telecommunications.

Interestingly Iceland agreed to give their DNA samples to a group of American scientists because of their unique isolation and small size of population. Irish DNA came back as a major part of their makeup, as they believe Irish slaves were brought by Vikings as part of the settlement of Iceland. The Icelandic family names are lost because you take the name of your father, example if your father was called Jon then the sons have the surname of Jonsson (son) and the girls have the surname Jondottir (daughter). So like we have here the family names like Murphy and Kelly would disappear.

fuelinjection · 06-02-2010 11:22PM

Tchaikovsky wrote: »

Iceland was supposedly discovered by Irish monks, who promptly skeddadled once the Vikings arrived. S

Actually true that, there is some Celtic carvings there like the spirals found outside of Newgrange.
Iceland is a place I always wanted to visit, looks incredible. Anyone who wants to see a bit of it can watch the movie "Beowulf and Grendel".

Tchaikovsky · 06-02-2010 11:27PM

fuelinjection wrote: »

Actually true that, there is some Celtic carvings there like the spirals found outsde of Newgrange.
Iceland is a place I always wanted to visit, looks incredible. Anyone who wants to see a bit of it can watch the movie "Beowulf and Grendel".

The people are a bit space cadet-ish to paraphrase Billy Connolly, but that's a good thing in my book

Watch Noi Albinoi aswell- it's set in the north of the country.

Tchaikovsky · 06-02-2010 11:31PM

fuelinjection wrote: »

The Icelandic family names are lost because you take the name of your father, example if your father was called Jon then the sons have the surname of Jonsson (son) and the girls have the surname Jondottir (daugher). So like we have here the family names like Murphy and Kelly would disappear.

Would that only apply to the son/daughter of an Icelandic man? As in, if a Nigerian living in Iceland had a child with an Icelandic woman, would the surname be Adebajosson or would they have two surnames?

fuelinjection · 06-02-2010 11:39PM

Tchaikovsky wrote: »

Would that only apply to the son/daughter of an Icelandic man? As in, if a Nigerian living in Iceland had a child with an Icelandic woman, would the surname be Adebajosson or would they have two surnames?

Any African man living through the winters in Iceland has my respect. So he can call them anything he wants to. Maybe Frozenbottom ?

:pac:

07-02-2010 12:20AM

fuelinjection wrote: »

Any African man living through the winters in Iceland has my respect. So he can call them anything he wants to. Maybe Frozenbottom ?

:pac:

That might explain the English surname of Winterbottom.

fuelinjection · 07-02-2010 01:17AM

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That might explain the English surname of Winterbottom.

:pac::pac:
Same pain in the ass !

Ireland and Iceland UNITE against Britain

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