Dimma, Anglicized The Darkness, Accumulates Icelandic Names and Words

Summary: Dimma, anglicized The Darkness, as the first thriller in the Hidden Iceland trilogy authored by Ragnar Jónasson, accumulates Icelandic names and words.

Cappuccino answers to the name cappuccino in Iceland, where it appeals as a frothy, hot drink. It perhaps answers unofficially to the Icelandic name frodukaffi (“foam coffee"); May 22, 2005, image of latte art: Morten Båtbukt (Mortefot), CC BY SA 2.0 Generic, via Wikimedia Commons

Dimma, anglicized The Darkness, as the first thriller in the Hidden Iceland trilogy about Reykjavík Detective Inspector Hulda Hermannsdóttir by author Ragnar Jónasson, accumulates Icelandic names and words for Icelandic-English vocabulary lists.

The Mannanafnanefnd (Icelandic Naming Committee, Personal Names Committee, literally “Man Name Committee”) register balances, since 1991, Icelander and immigrant given names against Icelandic grammar and tradition. The first thriller congregates Áki Ákason (“father, father’s son”), Albert Albertsson (“noble, nobleman’s son”), Baldur Albertsson (“lord/prince, nobleman’s son”) and Bjartur Hartmannsson (“illustrious, hard man's son”). It deploys Dimma Jónsdóttir (“darkness, gracious God's daughter”), Dóra (“gift”), Emma Margeirsdóttir (“all-encompassing, war-spear’s daughter”) and Hulda Hermannsdóttir (“secrecy, Herman's daughter” or “secrecy, unknown soldier’s daughter").

Hulda book one exhibits Jón Thorkelsson Vídalín (“gracious God, thunder-cauldron’s son, forest army”), 1666-1720, as front-matter quotee and, at a downtown café, fictitious Karen (“both, pure”?).

Magnús (“great”), Óliver ("ancestor‘s heir]”), Pétur (“rock, stone”), Thrándur (“enjoy, grow, prosper”?) from Faroese Tróndur and Tómas Gudmundsson (“twin, god/good protector’s son”) function as Icelandic names.

Refugees Elena (“torch”) and Katja (“both, faraway, hundred, pure, torture”?) guard simultaneously Icelandic and Russian names even as Mannanafnanefnd perhaps gets Arabic-speaking Ameena re-named Tryggva (“trustworthy”). The Icelandic language hails its króna (“crown”) currency, lopapeysa (“unspun-wool sweater") and sprittprímus (“spirits-cooker”) and harvests Prins Póló (“prince Polish”) from Poland's Prince Polo chocolate wafers. Italian cappuccino (“brown-red [coffee the color of Capuchin monks’ cowls]") and the Czech Škoda (“damage”) car respectively Icelandicize as frodukaffi (“foam coffee") and skemmd (“damage, spoilage”).

Akrafjall (“acrid mountain”), Esja (“clay”) and Skardsheidi (“[mountain] pass [of] heath”) summits join Reykjavík-area places to which Hulda journeyed before or during Dimma, anglicized The Darkness.

Kinetic Reykjavíkingers (“smoke bay”) know Álftanes (“swan peninsula”), Flekkuvík (“fleck, speck bay”), Keflavík (“driftwood bay”) and Njardvík (“strength bay”) on Reykjanes (“smoke cape, headland, promontory”) peninsula.

Reykjanes peninsula likewise lodges Keilir (“[subglacial mound or subglacial, sub-ice sheet volcano looking like a] cone, cusk [Brosme brosme] fish, tenpin, torsk [Brosme brosme] fish") mountain. The flat-topped, steep-sided volcano musters motorist attention on the dual carriageway along the Vatnsleysuströnd (“water coast”) coastal stretch, after the Keflavík turn-off, of the Reykjanes peninsula. Icelander and non-Icelander motorists navigate Reykjanes peninsula south-southeastward to Thjódvegur (Route 1, literally “nation, people road”) 1, nicknamed Hringvegur (“Ring Road”), past Fangelsid Litla-Hrauni (“prison little-lava”).

Dimma, anglicized The Darkness, offers such Icelandic names and words as Heidmörk (“bright forest”) nature preserve, where built and natural environments overlap in Urridavellir golf course.

Icelander and non-Icelander motorists pursue Ring Road south-southeastward, then northward to Vatnajökull (“glacier of lakes”) ice cap in eastern Iceland’s Skaftafell (“shaft[-like] isolated hill, mountain”) district.

Höfudborgarsvædid (Greater Reykjavík, literally “The Capital Region”), north-northwest of Heidmörk and Reykjanes, quarters Faxafloi (“horse’s gulf”) bay and Fossvogur (“waterfall bay”) and Grafarvogur (“trench bay”) suburbs. It retains for entertainment Gamla Bió (“the old one[‘s] cinema”), Hótel Borg (“castle, fortification, stronghold”) and Hótel Holt (“copse, small forest, stony hill with trees, wood”). It shelters Kjarvalsstadir (“brave, fierce battle sword-play place”) art gallery café, Tryggvagata (“trustworthy road, street”) hot dog stand and Urridavellir (“sea trout field, meadow”) golf course.

Places with such Icelandic names and words as Hverfisgata (“farm-clustered neighborhood road”) police tempt Hulda through their investigative and travel-related tasks in Dimma, anglicized The Darkness.

Škoda answers to the name Škoda in Iceland, where a literal-minded Icelander associates it perhaps unofficially with the Icelandic word skemmd ("damage, spoilage"). In its green, two-door appearance, it appeals to Detective Inspector Hulda Hermannsdóttir as a reliable car for accessing areas inside and outside Reykjavík; Oct. 1, 2014, image of Škoda at Škoda Auto Museum, Mladá Boleslav, Central Bohemian Region, Czech Republic: Cherubino, CC BY SA 4.0 International, via Wikimedia Commons

Acknowledgment

My special thanks to talented artists and photographers/concerned organizations who make their fine images available on the internet.

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Cappuccino answers to the name cappuccino in Iceland, where it appeals as a frothy, hot drink. It perhaps answers unofficially to the Icelandic name frodukaffi (“foam coffee"); May 22, 2005, image of latte art: Morten Båtbukt (Mortefot), CC BY SA 2.0 Generic, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Latte_art.jpg; Morten Båtbukt (Mortefot), CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Generic, via Flickr @ https://www.flickr.com/photos/tussius/

Škoda answers to the name Škoda in Iceland, where a literal-minded Icelander associates it perhaps unofficially with the Icelandic word skemmd ("damage, spoilage"). In its green, two-door appearance, it appeals to Detective Inspector Hulda Hermannsdóttir as a reliable car for accessing areas inside and outside Reykjavík; Oct. 1, 2014, image of Škoda at Škoda Auto Museum, Mladá Boleslav, Central Bohemian Region, Czech Republic: Cherubino, CC BY SA 4.0 International, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2014_Škoda_Museum,_Škoda_125_L_typ_742_1989_02.JPG

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