The WEIRDEST things about living in ICELAND
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Iceland is so weird haha! Tell me something weird about your country!!
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What are the weirdest things about your country? Any other weird things you've noticed about Iceland? 😋😋
About my country, it's citizens, bye from Italy
In mexico I've noticed women talk on their inward breath when gossiping lol! I love the cold and cant wait to visit Iceland someday!
I live in the U.S. so the list of weird things is long
Why can't you turn on subtitles on your channel? this is weird lightly
Talking about super personal things with other people is also prevalent in Indian culture
Icelanders: 14 degrees? let's sunbathe
Spaniards: 24 degrees? damn it's getting cold, where's my jacket?
Gives me a very pleasant image of a nearly naked Hrafna.
You will be shocked visiting and seeing us strip naked if it reaches 20 degrees 😂
Brazilians: 34 degrees? Normal winter.
Heh. Sounds like someone from New England living in the South in the winter.
Its been around 5-15°f at my home and I would be so happy for 14°c
Here in finland we have a sport called eukonkanto (translates to wife carrying) where the goal is to carry a woman through an obstacle course. The winner gets a beer barrel that weighs as much as the woman they were carrying
I lifted my wife and broke my back. (hairline crack) I learned I am not a crane.
Lol i want the biggest girl 😂
lmao
@@newjerseybt how big is your wife? holy shit
That's fantastic 😅👍
"I have seen him at IKEA at least two times!" This made me burst out laughing!
Doesn't he has people shopping for him? Why go by himself to IKEA if you are the president of a country? Well cycling is okay, this is sport, health, good example. IKEA...sorry🙂
@@Dbbehsuzysgx
Must be true then
@@markust7709 Just to clarify, I am Icelandic. The president’s have never had personal shoppers. Sure some have had assistants that have gone shopping for them. But when Guðni was elected he told the country that he would continue to do things the same as before. Because of his then young children. He would take them to kindergarten/preschool, shop with them if they needed stuff etc.
@@elin24thora I see! That is awesome!
"Very personal questions during small talk" Laughs in Balkan :D
We don't even know what a "personal question" is -and whenever we hear that term we immideately assume it is something very sinister. If you say "non of your business" everyone thinks you are I don't know a drug dealer.
i was literally like ??? personal Smalltalk??? omg i'd thrive in iceland
Oh we Balkan people do that all the time.
So a Norse thing
Yeah, i confirm this as a Turkish :D
I sometimes think Alaska is its own country, especially the rural areas (which is most of this US state). We love dried fish here, it's a traditional food in many of the indigenous cultures. The mid night sun, sun guilt (never thought of it that way) are definitely relatable. We get asked about living in igloos and having pet polar bears too! Thank you for your video!
"They would question the existence of my country" - man, when I say I'm from Poland everyone's like "IN WHICH PART OF RUSSIA IS THAT" ?!?!?!?!?!?!
Well if you're asking during the 1940's, the answer is: The fun part!
That is sad.
While actualy it should be: in which part of Germany is it? :-)
;D
I always say "I'm from Poland, starting with P", most people know.
My father was Dutch and my mother is Icelandic, so I recognise a lot! When I come back from Iceland after a family visit I constantly react to all questions with saying já on my inbreath 😂
In this pandemic I miss my Icelandic food! Not only harð fiskur, but also flatkökur with hangikjöt and my amma’s kjötsúpa.
Please do the video about Icelandic food!
X from the Netherlands
I just drive to the Netherlands for Skyr, just because Germany doesn't sell Ísey Skyr 😭 I'm so glad you have it in some of the stores ❤️
ivyM85 yes I’m so glad too! But still not the same as the skyr in Iceland. With a bit of cream or milk is the skyr the best!
Kjötsúpa is the fucking best
When you said, "super personal info", I thought you meant that they'd ask things like, are you getting laid regularly, how much money do you make, are you happy with your relationship, have you ever cheated/wanted to cheat? That would be super personal in the US, not a person's place of employment, unless maybe you already had an idea that maybe the person was involved in prostitution, selling drugs, or something they wouldn't want to advertise to everyone. Talking about jobs, where someone lives, etc., would be considered idle conversation that even strangers on a long plane trip might discuss. I mean, I don't, because I don't like people talking to me, but people who are sociable would typically be fine with that, unless they were uncomfortable with the person who's trying to make conversation.
Yep. My thoughts exactly.
Yah by larger western European standards such line of question would be prying. Common in the USA tho
@@jonsnows1188 Roger that.
Here in Canada, I've had complete strangers ask me things like "do you lock your door?" as well as the examples she gave. When it's friends you've not seen in years.. then they ask things like "what's your fave sex position these days?"
@@HrafnNordhri ok, that's weird. I don't know how that rates by Canadian standards, but it seems weird to me.
We keep the baby's name a secret too in Finland. Or at least that's how it used to be.
And we also talk while breathing in. I hear it all the time when older women are gossiping.
@@MrZarewna Hearing it does my head in ngl 🥴
They do it in the Faroe Islands too
And the sun guilt is so relatable to us too!
@@MrZarewna I can't physically do that
Being from Texas we get sick of the sun actually, at least I do! Love a good cool, cloudy and rainy day.
You would love Oregon then. We got all the cloudy rainy weather you could want.
Welcome to Phoenix. 🤣
In the southe we're happy when it rains so we have an excuse to be lazy & stay indoors
I’m in Northern Michigan and would love the dry heat in Texas. We never seem to have a long enough summer but our fall season is absolutely gorgeous.
the thing about Sun guilt also exists in Greece! It's considered wrong to stay inside when the day is sunny which is completely rediculous as we have sun almost everyday! Probably that's the reason we are not so effective proffesionals!
My wife and I were married in Iceland last year. We were prepared for the more stereotypical Icelandic weather we had gotten used to on past visits. Perfectly sunny day with highs of 16 caught us by surprise, but certainly couldn't complain.
I remember when icelandic president was in Poland some time ago and people went crazy because he travelled by train haha
👍😁😂
👍😁
To be fair, being the president of a 340,000 population is just like being the mayor of some medium sized city in every other country.
Maybe he wanted to experience the novelty of it? Iceland doesn't have a public railway system.
"People thought I lived in an igloo" my god I haven't laughed this hard in weeks
Same
I had a plastic igloo in my backyard when i was 6. I loved that thing so much😍
These were probably 12 year olds given that it was on Tumblr.
... from IKEA.
Many ppl from France think people from Quebec(french canadian) live in igloos too or that we dont have cars etc ..Haha thats deep
I'm from Sweden, we also feel guilty when we can't go outside when the sun is out... :(
In my region of the US, it's like our thing to be outside, but I know so many people who get tired of the sun and will become nocturnal in the summertime. It gets so hot.
Danielle Ross it is very hot in Sweden in summertime and Pretty cold in Wintertime. But the swedish people are never happy with the wearher😂😂😂🤷🏼♂️
@@titti7530 I live a bit above the equator, yet still get snow up to my waist. I live in a very strange place (also part desert)
Danielle Ross where do you live in US?
@@titti7530 northeastern Colorado
As a Finn I can relate to several of these:
- We also keep the baby's name secret until christening/naming ceremony
- There is a crazy conspiracy theory (/meme) circling around the internet that Finland does not exist either 😔
- We also speak while breathing in
- Sun guilt is also a thing here
- It is also not uncommon to be engaged for years
- I live quite near where the president of Finland lives and I've also seen him casually walking his dog. There is also this picture of the former president (Tarja Halonen) dumpster diving, which is just awesome! 😄 You don't see Trump doing that for sure.
Btw, we also have these ice cream shops and my favourite toppings are different salmiakki candies and liquorice sauce ❤️
I must admit its been a while since I last heard Norway being a city in Sweden... The absolute heresy of such a statement. It is utterly shameful, thankfully it seems to be disappearing.
Licorice sauce?! That sounds amazing I need to try it!
No, Trump only walk with guns!
Oh what I have been in Finland 3 times and I never saw these Ice cream shops. I saw sometimes just ice cream stands and no Ice cream shops open until midnight hahaha
Nahhh, you have so many great bands in Finland, so it's difficult not to exist as a country, me
rakastamme suomea!!!!!!!!
My husband and I were engaged for about 5 years before getting married. And we paid the wedding for ourselves.
Greetings from Germany ❤️
the sun guilt part was touching. A true example of appreciating smth more when you miss it. Praise the sun!
The Tasty Fox here..is called a Blizzard and you buy it at Dairy Queen..lol
@NA NA LOL!
Came here to mention Dairy Queen Blizzards 😁
McDonald's its a flurry or McFlurry. You usually just get 1 ingredient like m&m's or reeces, or oreo's etc..
@@kylekyle7386 at Culvers concrete mixer maybe a little closer to the fox lol
I think I might have to go to Iceland for a tasty fox ;)
Dried fish is common in Ukraine, Russia, Bielorussia. Comes with heads scales and entrails - all together. You clean it while eating. Good match for beer.
It is also common in some places in Italy. I come from Calabria (the southest peninsula's region) and "pesce stocco" or "stoccafisso" - dried cod- is a traditional food. I think this is a common thing of historically poor places having the need to store food for long times.
@@rubenlatella3664 rather where winter is long
....and in Portugal, Brasil aso.....nothing very special.
Okay so, I'm not Icelandic and me and my mom LOVES dried fish and I smiled when she said they love dried fish. I mean, I might have to do some research on my geneology because I AM OBSESSED with Scandinavian and Nordic culture.
I want a video about traditional food pls
That'd be awesome!!!
Svið (transliterated as svid or svith) is a traditional Icelandic dish consisting of a sheep's head cut in half, singed to remove the fur, and boiled with the brain removed, sometimes cured in lactic acid. Svið originally arose at a time when people could not afford to let any part of a slaughtered animal go to waste.
Good idea...
Howbout a vid on the international Peen/Wiener/Male animal genitalia museum in Reykjavik?
Shes prob to modest for that one though...Prob not Grandma approved?
To think I was staying a few stumble steps away from such an oddity & never went?!..Next Time...
Thanks for the video, i have a question about food. I live in the US, but have traveled to Scotland and fell in love with Haggis, the pictures you showed of the food depicted what looks like a sausage. What are the banes if some if them so i can look for recipes? Thanks very much!
Hey Mac! If watching me feed my girlfriend shark and brennivín (our very strong liquor) sounds interesting, please head over to our channel. Video is out on Friday!
Your president sounds really cool, such a breathe of fresh air😊
The weirdest thing about my country (Spain) is that some people think bullfighting is art 🥴🥴🥴🥴
😂😂😂😂
Same goes to Portugal.
looks cool tho!
Ugrak Plethkilik it definitely doesn’t, trust me lol i believe mistreating animals is not cool at all
I thought the sport is respected? Was it?
Dear Hrafna. I'm one of your fans. I am a Canadian citizen living in Procince of Québec. French is my mother tongue. I really like to listen what you have to say about the specificities of your interesting country. You teach me many aspects about your mother tongue, its relations with other Nordic languages, including Old Norse, your traditions and the fascinating history of your country. A Quebecer who sends you his affectionate words. Merci pour tout et continue d'instruire le reste du monde. Bonne Année. Marc 🤩 / Þakka þér fyrir allt og haltu áfram að kenna restinni af heiminum. Gleðilegt nýtt ár. Marc 😉
When I went to Iceland, the weirdest thing I saw was that you could drive right up to the President’s house with minimal security! My friend and I were even able to pet the President’s cat! (And my friend accidentally kicked it when it suddenly ran away! 😂)
The president of Iceland is the equivalent of the mayor of a medium sized city, or the county executive of Westchester Country in New York State. In Iceland, all politics is literally local! Iceland is in an unusual spot, it is a part of an underwater mountain range called the Midatlantic ridge, it is one of the few parts of it that rises above the ocean surface, another such place is Bermuda. The Midatlantic ridge is where the North American and European plates seperate, the crust is pulled apart and some of the molten rock from below rises up through the gap to form the Midatlantic ridge, most of which stays underwater except for places like Iceland and Bermuda.
Thomas Kalbfus Yep! And it’s the magma plume that Iceland is resting above that allows its hot springs to naturally occur and to use geothermal energy!!
Interesting about accessibility to the Pres. When I went to recover my lost US passport....the US embassy was like a bunker/fortress!!! Not inviting at all and they wouldn't let me take a photo of the front of it.. I mean geez! it's Iceland not Jerusalem!!
@@thomaskalbfus2005 but i like the icelandic approach to politicians (its similar here too)... theyre just people XD i feel like in the states you can be like a rockstar
@@scotverdin9401 which would make it an inviting target for terrorists. The hard targets are in the middle east, which is why the terrorists would go for the soft targets, it is not Icelanders who would be the terrorists, but rather visitors to their island, and the US cannot afford to let its guard down.
Ok so when you speak Icelandic it sounds so strange to my ears but you look super cute doing it! I’ve heard a lot of different languages from around the world but your language is heard so rarely globally that it is quite surprising how it’s pronounced and spelled. I subbed because I wanna learn more about you and your culture. I’m on the east coast of Canada 🇨🇦 so I’m not that far away.
Nonce
The weirdest thing for me about Iceland is that you guys don’t have a railway system... this would make a lot of things easier and faster (and more environmentally friendly) for residents and tourists.😅
It’s probably not possible due the small population of the country.
I agreee!!! I wish we had a railway system🙏🏻
There were plans to build railway from Keflavik airport to Reykjavik, but its very difficult because of volcanic activity in Reykjanes. I think that railway in Iceland would be unprofitable, very high construction and maintenance cost would make prices of tickets too high. Straetó is cheaper to manage, but still tickets are very expensive, so it's not popular transportation between cities.
@@Hrafna you need a destination, and as you said, there is only one city. I suppose a train would follow the perimeter of the island, rather than go straight across.
Also Iceland has no aboriginal people prior to the Europeans settlers.
Mc Bekon I agree.
Can relate to sun guilt. British winters aren't the harshest, but there are times where it's grey and wet for weeks on end. And the one day it's sunny you're almost guaranteed to be working through your 7 hours of sunlight.
I wish I lived in Iceland or Russia or Greenland, Because the Summers in The UK isn’t very hot and We don’t get a lot of snow 😢
It's so interesting to hear something new and unusual about Iceland from you, thanks a lot!
I really enjoy your videos about Iceland! It makes me super interested in your country 😊 And the personal questions during small talk remind me of every single Christmas with my dads family!
Weird things about Germany: Being in the Sauna totally naked (I learned it’s not common in every country), don’t crossing the street when traffic lights are red although no car is to be seen 😂 carrying around sacks plastic bottles to get money back cause they are all going into recycling (a really good thing tho!) and some typical North German things like drinking black tea with rock candy and cream (I love it! It’s a tea tradition from East Frisia, where I am from), sometimes nodding or heads to say hi or greeting with the phrase „Moin“ instead of „Hello“. And North German folk has a really strange way of Humor 😂 I love to be North German and not like the other German folk 🤓
what's difference north german and south german? do you dislike south german or something?
“Mojn” is also a greeting in Southern Jutland (Sønderjylland in Danish; a southern part of Denmark close to Germany 🇩🇪🇩🇰)😊
And I live in the middle of germany 😂
Is Moin really a weird thing to say? As a non-German, I have met German game groups online and they say "moin" every single day. I guess it's just a Northern German thing
@@endomania Yes for me it is wierd 😅 In my region nobody sais "moin" 🙈
Iceland is amazing.
here in Brazil when its sunny ---everyday--- I feel like I'm dying.
😂😂 here we almost have cloudy-day guilty
Conversa. Os brasileiros quando emigram queixam-se sempre da falta de sol e do frio. Deve ser daquelas coisas que nem se apercebem que adoram.
@@dudanunesbleff Eu me sinto extremamente confortável em dias acinzentados. Acho que depende da pessoa mesmo.
Tried to speak breathing in. Sounded like a rottweiler fighting a water jet.
Lol.. as a rottweiler mom... I can hear it lol :). But I am Icelandic so I can speak in my inbreth lol :)
I'm from Ohio, USA. I live near Lake Erie in the north east of the state. One January I went to Savanna, Georgia for the weekend. The event we attended was at a Civil War fort and was entirely out doors. When we left Ohio it was about -6C to -7C with winds blowing about 40kph and heavy snow. Basically it was snowing sideways. 12 hours of driving south later we get to the event site and it's about 12C, a little overcast but otherwise a good day. We were thrilled. We piled out of our car and started pulling stuff out of the truck for the day. We were wearing t-shirts and light pants and loving it. A car pulls in behind us. It has Florida plates on it. They have driven about as far north as we have driven south. They start reluctantly getting out of their car. Bundled up in puffy winter coats. pants, boots, and hats. They looked like they were on their way to the North Pole. They looked at us like we were crazy. We had a good laugh about them later.
Here in Italy we ask reaaaally personal questions too ahahahahah like “Do you have a boyfriend/girlfriend? What’s his/her name? What does he/she do? Do you work or do you go to school? What do you want to do when you finish school?”
Iceland is one of my dream holidays but I’m obsessed with mythology mainly Greek so when I’m 18 I’m going to Greece to hopefully learn more
I like what I’ve learned about Icelandic naming traditions and this is a new one. I like how your first names are more important then your last names and also how there's no family name. And you don’t change last names after marriage. Basically you keep your name your whole life, which makes sense. Please correct me if I’m mistaken of course
I have recently become very interested in learning about Iceland. It is so different than any other country in the world, the culture, the geography, the weather, and everything else. I would love to visit, except for two reasons. I can't stand cold weather, and I am uncomfortable in crowds. I subscribed to your channel, and I'm watching every video I can find on your channel. Thanks You!
We have tasty foxes all over the U.S. They have different names for it depending on the shop. It is often called a blizzard, or wizard etc.
Iceland and ice cream has to be in the book of world records. We have Ice cream shops for every 1000 people or something. So we have about 350 Ice cream shops hahah. We eat ice cream when it's sunny, when it rains and when it snows. Tasty foxes are just 2lb boxes full of ice cream mixed with all the fruit, candy and chocolate you can think of.. and like 2500 cals ;)
8:46 well...that is spectacular.
Honestly I need this hear where I live.
It Feels like mountain Dungeon over here; 5 o'clock in the winter is completely dark over here, until maybe 8 or 7 is when actual real burning brightly warm light is present.
Maybe unless it is foggy an rainy.
For which, it is very unpleasant.
"They would question the existence of my country" same with all central american countries lmao
I live in a rural area near a small town. Nobody in town knows where my area is even though it's in the same county.
We have the icecream thing in the US. Maggie Moo's and Coldstone are the two chains I know of that sell mixed icecream. I haven't been to one since 2001, but the way it worked back then was: You pick 1-3 kinds of icecream, and up to 2 candies in each. Each "scoop" of icecream was mixed with any two candies. Each scoop could be the same, or you could pick different ones. There were 16 flavors of icecream, and about 30 kinds of candy you could mix in. The icecream was mixed with special paddles on a stone that was kept very cold. The size of cup you showed in the video is capable of holding 3 scoops.
Also, even though I live much further south than you, it gets much colder here I think. It's normal to have -16 F (-26.66 C) in the winter, but then 94 F (34.44 C) in the summer. The further you go towards the middle of America, the more extreme the weather gets. Where my paternal grandparents are from in South Dakota, it's much crazier in the winter. My dad said it was -30 F (-34.44 C) a few years ago when he was there in February. Islands usually have nicer weather than large continents. It's kind of funny, my grandma's grandfather Edward Friel was from Norway, and he said that Minnesota and South Dakota were colder. I believe it. Otherwise why would bison have so much fur on them?
I gotta talk on my in-breath during my next work shift doing customer service with stranger customers;-)
Thanks for the crazy opportunity idea 😂
My God! This. This was something I should have done during my seven years of computer support My BOFH-level would increase a tenfold times. Dang it. Lost opportunity there.
That in-breath talking was hilarious! I used to do that with my sister when we were kids, as some sort of a game :D
The weirdest thing for me is the rotten shark snack.
😂😂
It's not even that bad 🙈 try it!
The WHAT
@@Kinobambino Hákarl, fermented shark.
I tried it. Its pretty bad. Think very small cubes of tofu with a VERY strong ammonia smell to it
In the US, we have frozen yogurt places everywhere like the "Tasty Fox" you mentioned. We can load up on whatever we want. When you're ready to pay, you weigh it and depending on how much it weighs calculates the cost. The blended part of Iceland's ice cream sounds more like a Blizzard, something you would purchase at a Dairy Queen.
I'm from NZ. I didn't find any of this to be particularly weird, just different.
We're also used to people thinking we don't exist, so I totally get what you mean with that. We're a small isolated country, although much bigger than Iceland admittedly. I've seen our PM in the streets too, although they usually have a couple of bodyguards with them, it's very discreet and you can get pretty close to him/her.
I'd really love to experience midnight Sun! Sounds amazing
We know you exist... I love "airport security".🤗
sasha rama I love NZ I would love to visit!😊 NZ became really popular here in GER due lord of the rings ;)
@@linajurgensen4698 I totally agree with you. Those landscapes... It's like heaven in earth😍
@@linajurgensen4698 I totally agree with you. Those landscapes... It's like heaven on earth😍
What a contrast to our landscapes. We do have a lot of mountains but not volcanoes! Our country is mostly grassland, like where I live. But we also have a beautiful coastline, mountains, bush and deserts. We also eat the sheep head, it's called a 'smiley' cos you can see the teeth, and it kind of looks at you like it is smiling. We actually have penguins that live in the Western Cape near Cape Town, and seals too. We also have the Big Five, hippos, crocs, snakes, scorpions, and spiders. Sunny South Africa is almost always warm except mid-May to the end of August.
Haha, we Danes also do the “talking while inhaling” thing. It’s most common amongst short expressions like ‘ja’ and ‘nej’ (yes and no), though we don’t do it with actual sentences, plus women also tend to do it most. Gotta love the Scandinavian similarities.
Norwegian do it also, it's kind of scarry for ppl who never heard of it.
Was going to comment on that. I went out with a Danish girl for a while and after a short time realised I totally understood an in breathed “oh” sound as meaning “yes”. 😜
HEY THERE!!
I've never heard anything about Iceland, the more I hear the more I feel like visiting some day. This is a good channel with real material and a super cute host. Keep up with it please!
My understanding is that there is a "cousin's app" in Iceland to prevent unintentional incestuous relationships. I don't know if any other country has something like that.
Alabama needs something like that.
Hrafna example of SUPER personal questions was a lot more tame and chill than I thought it would be given that those don’t sound like extremely personal questions to me because those are also common questions to ask of someone here in Canada that you haven’t spoken to in a long time as a way of catching up with them and what their life is like now.
That is so funny, we do also talk with in-breath in Greenland as well, when we are gossiping :D
I am really suprised that Turkish culture and Iceland have a common thing. In Turkey, people also like to ask personal questions about you even if you are stranger and it's a normal thing
People in the USA also ask strangers personal questions. Not all people do that. But maybe around 50%.
@@kazzicup seem like it's universal 😄
Greenland consists of ice while Iceland consists of lands; FINALLY A WORTHY OPPONENT
Greenland consists of ice while Iceland consists of green -_-
Sean Villanueva , Iceland has many glaciers.
@@juandiegovalverde1982 Don't ruin the joke m8
Those Danes
I nearly posted Americans of a certain age know Iceland as the villains of Mighty Ducks 2
Ive always been a fan of vikings which is why i like Icelandic culture as well as Norway........etc. It's also a beautiful place as well. Your fun to watch too. I like how u transfer from your add to yoyr video its alway something cute or silly. You make great videos and i hope to see your subscribers rise. Dont kno why. Felt like saying. I never type to youtubers so 👍👍
as an Icelander that has been engaged 6 years I feel a bit called out :p still haven't planned the wedding.
It's common in Ireland too. Also late average age of marriage is something we share, the average age of 1st marriage here for men is 36.8 and women 34.8, and 3 years later for same-sex couples. As I understand it's similar in Iceland.
@Michael Miner how so?
@Michael Miner lol
Having a chill, unproblematic, and somewhat approachable president? That's madness. Also, your ice cream treat kinda sounds like a Dairy Queen blizzard. Regardless of whether it is or not, I'm here for it and I like your choice in toppings :)
I lived in iceland for 1 year and I can relate to so many things you've said 😅 I'm originally from Germany 🇩🇪
Oh, and btw huppu ísbúð has the best ice cream in the whole country in my opinion 😍🍦
Personal info in small talk is normal in the southern states as well. Its honestly the easiest way to catchup and/or get to know someone quickly
2:40 - Drengur made me LOL given the Old Norse applications of that word. So all Icelanders are born drengurs ab initio, I'm impressed. Let's hope they live up to it!
Hi, from the US here. That “personal talk” is standard small talk here in the US although not everyone from here appreciates it or will participate, especially men in my experience, but it’s still pretty normal here. I work in a salon. I ask my clients that stuff all the time. I’m sure I volunteer too much information about myself! Lol
My friends and I however are not “normal” Americans and my femme friends at least (and gay men) will often ask waaaay more personal questions if we haven’t seen each other in a while!
It’s “traditional” for the bride’s family to pay for the wedding but that tradition has definitely changed over the last 20 years or so at least in bigger cities at least on the West coast? I can’t speak for the whole country. I haven’t spent much time outside of the Pacific Northwest. Engagements are typically 1-2 years but my brother and his wife were engaged for at least 5 years if not longer and lived together for most of it. They both paid for the wedding. Again less pressure in this general area, but not too unusual. You drive two miles of town into the country and the culture is often very different and more conservative and traditional.
Hardfískur doesn’t sound that weird to me. Smoked salmon is pretty popular and that sounds similar? I looooove smoked salmon! But that photo looked like the fish was pretty dry, so it might be very different. I’d try it!
On baby names they are definitely not a secret at all here, to an annoying extent. Most parents have a name picked out well before the end of their pregnancy. And once my belly was really obvious everyone asked if we had names picked out. We didn’t name our daughter for three weeks after she was born because my partner and I couldn’t agree on what to name her and I didn’t want to insist on my choice. People would ask us every single day “Have you picked a name yet?”
This “talking on the in breath” is REALLY common here in Brazil, we do it all the time. When we a gossiping, or when we hear something chocking
What's nice about you, you are honest as you've said and you have innocence that is crisp and wonderful and a face you can look at all day long. Haha keep it up!
Hrafna "you rarely see the sun"
Also Hrafna "peopel will do anything to Block the sun"
I think she meant to block the light. You can have a brighter day even if it's not sunny
Bam Bam , they block the Sun to sleep.
Bam Bam , because they have midnight sun in summer.
They block the light. It needs to be done, otherwise the baby’s can’t sleep... did you even watch the video?😅
We have the icecream here as wel! The main brand is Swirls - but with less options. Usually there are some fruit options (cherries, strawberries and so on) chocolate and candies that goes along with it.
Some Finnish people also talk on their in-breath.
"I have seen the president at IKEA a couple of times." LOL. I don't why but this made me laugh so hard. I'm American tho, and we treat or Presidents like royalty. I remember John Oliver once joked that in Britain they treat their Prime Ministers like crap because they have actual royalty. That's nice he gets to be a normal person and do that job.
During this video I was captivated when she said the sun does not set at some point, what!!! South African gets so hot like some parts 40° C.... Cloudy weather is heaven this side.
After 5 seconds in to this video, I suddenly feel a large urge to move to Iceland 😅
Right.
The "weirdest" thing about my country is that it only has one or two women as beautiful as Hrafna, and they're married.
That's true, you gradually get used to a different climate. I was born and raised where it rained 8-9 months out of the year. I was used to it but some that moved there got depressed by the rain.
We have sun guilt in Sweden too! I feel terrible when I can't be outside when the weather is nice 😆
I live in New Mexico, which is a state in America. It is actually sunny more than 300 days per year. The temperature range from about 0-40, but it mostly stays above around 10, so it's basically sunny and warm most of the time, and the humidity is very low so it's very pleasant most of the time, but even I get "sun guilt". I think, "The weather is so good here, but I don't appreciate it enough!"
There's a lot of pressure to be outside since it's so nice, so you tend to feel guilty of you stay inside.
There are a few weeks in the winter when it's cold enough that you don't want to go out for very long, but even then it's usually sunny and dry, so outside is comfortable. Even so we stay inside a lot in January to February. Skiing in the sunshine is great though!
Then in the summer the sun can get so intense that if you do go outside, you have to stay in the shade. We are at 1830 meters elevation, so the sun is INTENSE.
So in the Pacific Northwest, USA we have places like Cold Stone Creamery that do custom ice creams where they mix different ingredients into a flavor of ice cream for you. I would go and get Chocolate and Pistachio ice creams mixed together with brownie pieces, m&ms and topped with sprinkles or something like that. They always have a wide variety of things you can mix in and I believe you can mix up to 3 ice creams or so. They have chocolate caramel and some fruit flavored syrups to put on top too. I think this is pretty similar!
Talking on the in-breath's so weird to try out, that's a really unique feature of Icelandic
We do it in France when we say for example: Oui, so it's a breathy "Oui", which basically means " Yes". In Sweden and in other countries it also applies.
In Bulgaria is the same about the small talk - people ask each other personal things - where they work, are they married and have children, etc.
You think your country's weird. Here in Australia I just had to lure a crocodile from my back yard 😂 Plus it's sunny 11 months of the year aswell, and dont forget that the hottest recorded day in Australia was 50.5°c 🥵
Classic australia
I live in Arizona. I can relate to 50.5, lol. We get at least 3 days of 48 every year in Phoenix. This year we have had 52 days above 43, 14 days above 46. Our record for days above 38 in one year is 146. Phoenix can be absolutely miserable lol. There's also the added fun of tons of roaches, scorpions, and tarantulas. No crocs though lol
Also everything is upside down
50.5 ohh my lord some people must have dead working outside.
Idk man, people probably get eaten everyweeks by pythons here in Indonesia
Wow..the moment covid restrictions are lifted I'm visiting Iceland. I have fallen in love with it over the last few years, especially in the last few months. Culturally, you Guys have it nailed! Beautiful people, beautiful landscape and I love the sound of the language and accent. I can't wait to get over over there and do some hiking, camping, and eating weird food of course :)
If your whole country experiences sun guilt, are there companies that you can work for that will let people go outside in the middle of the work day if it's sunny outside??
Yes!! I used to work at IKEA a few years ago and on super sunny days there would be very few customers so my boss would often let me and a few of my co-workers just go come home and enjoy the sun 😀 a lot of big companies in Iceland do this for their employees
@@Hrafna Amazing! It's like a Spanish Siesta for Icelanders :D
Hrafna whaaat?? Omg that’s amazing😆
@@Hrafna, we don't have a word for sun-guilt in Polish but I can sort of relate. I felt it when you said that! Yes, we have quite sunny (but also stormy) summers but the November-March period, much darker (on the shortest day of the year the sun rises at 07:44am and sets at 03:23pm in Warsaw), often with gloomy weather, makes some people depressed. I try my best to stay decently active each winter in order to save my sanity ;) and when it's sunny in late autumn and winter it feels like heaven! I'm blessed with somewhat flexible work schedule so I often put an OOO in my google calendar in the middle of a day just to go for a walk when the weather forecast is promising! Also, when spring comes, many kids and even university students have some classes outside :) I can remember that when I was a student at the Jagiellonian University we begged some teachers to give a lecture on the Vistula river banks instead of a classroom. Beautiful times!
That thing with the gossip. We have the same thing here in the Netherlands. Super funny that you mentioned it! Greetings from Amsterdam!
The small talk is probably a way to avoid interbreeding.
You are so delightful to watch. I just came back from Iceland. March 31st. 2022. Loved it! Will return. I didn't have the nerve to try brennivin and fermented shark but I did have some great fish at the Reykavik Fish House.
I live in Texas in the US and I never thought about this either until my boyfriend from Mexico noticed...An indoor gun range connected in the same building as a church. Haha!
I'm pretty sure that's unique to Texas.
The bride's family paying for the wedding was a holdover from the dowry or brideprice traditions. The groom's family funding the post-wedding travel or honeymoon was a move to establish some parity between the two families.
In Georgia we had such weird thing a few years ago if someone caught you walking with someone and they don't know him ,you have to marry to him😂
Basically forced marriage?
You are so very pretty. I have loved Iceland for over 40 years. In my studies, I found that the most interesting thing was that people are named ...dottir and ...son, preceded by their fathers’ first name. So you might have 4 last names in one family. And people are listed by first name and occupation in their local phone books.
*KIIIINDA* experienced the same thing w/ foreigners about existence/location of My Own Country, -New Zealand
Hello! regarding the in breath talking while gossiping. I find it interesting because sound will might not travel too far, which is key while gossiping in a public place.
I'm from Seattle and totally understand the "sun guilt" thing.
Yes same! I’m surprised we don’t have our own word for it lol
I visited Iceland about 15 years ago. I remember someone in our group going to Dominoes Pizza and paying about $30.00 USD. Here in the US, it would be less than $10.00 (at that time)
I still have a bottle of Brennivin in the freezer.
Sounds about right! But you have to get an offer, never single pizzas from the menu 😅 they actually offer two pizzas for around $30-35 USD
I like the idea of long engagements but that did sound weird to my American ears. :)
I lived in Iceland for a year back in 1989 & 1990. I visited the Blue Lagoon before it was such a huge tourist attraction, once during winter while snow was falling. It was odd to be in a pool of warm water with fog so dense all around me that I could not see my friend just several feet away while snow fell on my head.
Another thing I found strange was to go shopping in downtown Reykjavik and see an unattended baby in a stroller parked just outside of a shop while the parent was inside the shop.
I spent a weekend camping at Skógafoss and climbed the small 'mountain' next to the falls. That was fun!
I would like to return for a visit some day, but the world just isn't the same anymore, and I think it very unlikely that I will travel outside of my country again.
I am pretty sure that the dry fish is originally Norwegian and came to Island from Norway during the Viking era.
@Jonathan Parks checkmate
Jonathan Parks and that’s a fact...
@Jonathan Parks Exactly .
Love your videos a lot of us here in America are descendants from the old Norse we have great love and respect for your country
Here in Brazil we take like 1 or 2 showers in one day, i heard that this is uncommon, and we have our crazy president Bolsonaro.
Guuh you need to get rid of your president, he destroys the environment of your beautiful country.
I don't think that it's uncommon. Here in Poland we also shower twice a day. One shower in the morning and one before you go to bed. I think that it's just basic hygiene and that people in most countries do that.
Hahaha as a Latina living in Europe I can tell you that most ppl don’t take daily showers( at least my friends 25-35 y/o).
I'm from Brazil too. Bolsonaro is terrible.
@@ponurymike3612 Is that really common in Poland? Sounds odd. Two showers a day really isn't basic hygiene, that's just overdoing. Too much showering is actually bad for your skin and hair. I personally shower almost every day (I'm from Finland) but I've heard that the best amount of showering would be around twice a week.
Sun guilt is a thing in Ireland too! And any kind of a day that isn't raining you'd be feeling guilty if you haven't got a wash on the clothesline because it's great drying weather and you don't want to miss the opportunity. Irish people talk on their inbreath too, but really only to say 'yeah' while gossiping if we're a bit exasperated or impatient with what the other person is saying.
One question: why do you apologize 20 times before telling weird quirky thing about Iceland? 😅🤣
In the USA I remember being taught that that Iceland is very green and Greenland is very arctic and the reasons they arent swapped was because Iceland is really nice so they named it Iceland to deter people from coming into the country and they named Greenland Greenland so people would think its super green and go there instead.
PLEASE LET ME KNOW IF I WAS LIED TO AS A CHILD 😂😂😂😂
That is basically true. Leif Ericsson tried to sell people on Greenland as he had more investment there. Iceland wasn't all that crowded either in the beginning. Volcanoes kept many from wanting to migrate there.
This is a thing most American tourists mention! I think it's also mentioned in the Mighty Ducks movie or something 😅but it's mostly true, it was much better having a private island for the vikings trying to get away from a king wanting more tax-money in Norway!
I'm from Scotland, and we have a phrase called "taps aff" it translates as "tops off" and means that whenever it gets above 15oC tops get take off and people sunbathe :) There's even a website: www.taps-aff.co.uk/ to tell you if it's a taps aff or oan day ;) I used to see our First Minister (Nicola Sturgeon, who's in charge of the Scottish Parliament) out and about before COVID - I was at an event a few years ago and she made me a cup of tea :) We're a small country too :D
Can you talk about non-binary people in Iceland? How does that affect surnaming? I heard something about the suffix -bur?