Word origins

• hopeTo want (something) to happen, with a sense of expectation that it might [with that (+ clause); or (informal) with clause; or with so or (negative) not].
• goaA form of trance music that originated during the late 1980s in Goa, India, typically with droning basslines and progressive beat changes.
• ugA feeling of fear, horror or disgust.
• lureSomething that tempts or attracts, especially one with a promise of reward or pleasure.
• berthA place for a vessel to lie at anchor or to moor.
• scampA rascal, swindler, or rogue; a ne'er-do-well.
• ReykjavikThe capital city of Iceland.
• immerA bird in genus Gavia.
• routA group of people; a crowd, a throng, a troop; in particular (archaic), a group of people accompanying or travelling with someone.
• aukAny of several species of Arctic sea birds of the family Alcidae.
• geyserA boiling natural spring which throws forth jets of water, mud, etc., at frequent intervals, driven upwards by the expansive power of steam.
• titlingThe act of giving something a title, or of impressing the title on the back of a book.
• eiderAny of the species of Somateria spp. and Polysticta stelleri or of the seaduck subfamily Merginae, which line their nests with fine down (taken from their own bodies).
• AkureyriA city in Norðurland eystra, Iceland.
• AsatruA neopagan religion, reconstructed from old Norse religion, which honors the Æsir and other Norse gods and spirits.
• godiA local chieftain in Norse societies, who held religious and administrative duties.
• fulmarEither of two species of pelagic seabird in the genus Fulmarus, Fulmarus glacialis and F. glacialoides, which breed on cliffs.
• OlafssonA patrilineal surname from Icelandic.
• udalAllodial, inalienable.
• HeklaA stratovolcano in the south of Iceland.
• jokulA mountain covered with ice and snow, a snow mountain.
• AlthingThe national parliament of Iceland.
• BárðarbungaAn Icelandic subglacial stratovolcano located under the ice cap of Vatnajökull glacier.
• BjörkA female given name
• brennivínAn Icelandic distilled beverage.
• EldfellA volcano in Heimaey, Iceland, in the Vestmannaeyjar archipelago; a volcanic cone formed during the 1973 eruption.
• EyjafjallajökullA glacier and volcano in southern Iceland.
• eyrirA subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of an Icelandic króna
• fulltruiA deity to whom one is wholeheartedly and/or exclusively devoted.
• garefowlThe great auk.
• glacier mouseA ball of moss, often surrounding a rock, that moves across a glacier.
• godordThe state or authority of a godi
• GrimseyA small, inhabited island off the northern coast of Iceland.
• gythjaA priestess of the modern Norse religion.
• hákarlAn Icelandic food, cured fermented shark with a strong ammonia smell.
• heitiA synonym used in Old Norse poetry in place of the normal word for something; a poetic epithet.
• HöðrThe blind son of the Norse gods Odin and Frigg, whom Loki tricked into shooting Baldur with a mistletoe arrow.
• HópA lake near Blönduós in Iceland.
• jökulhlaupA subglacial outburst flood; a sudden release of water from a subglacial lake.
• KirkjubæjarklausturA village in Skaftárhreppur, Iceland.
• KópavogurA city in the Capital Region, Iceland.
• lyrieAgonus cataphractus, a European fish having the body covered with bony plates, and with three spines projecting in front of the nose.
• MývatnA lake in Iceland.
• necropantsA pair of pants made from the skin of the lower half (below the waist) of a dead man, used by medieval Icelandic sorcerers to obtain money.
• Norðurland eystraNortheastern Region (an administrative region of Iceland).
• odalAmong the early and medieval Teutonic peoples, especially Scandinavians, the heritable land held by the various odalmen constituting a family or kindred of freeborn tribesmen.
• OskarsdottirA surname from Icelandic. (this is not a surname in Icelandic, it is merely a patronym in Iceland; it is adopted as a surname into English)
• RauðskinnaA legendary Icelandic grimoire about black magic, which is said to have been buried with its author: the bishop Gottskálk grimmi Nikulásson.
• ReekwichThe capital city of Iceland. Official name: Reykjavík.
• ReykjavíkThe capital city of Iceland.
• sandurA plain created by the outwash of glacial meltwater.
• skawA promontory.
• skuteA boat; a small vessel.
• skyrA yogurt-like product made of curdled milk, curds stored up for food; a thick dairy product unique to Icelandic cuisine.
• surturbrandA fibrous brown coal or bituminous wood.
• ThorriThe fourth winter month in the Icelandic calendar, running from mid-January to mid-February.
• tindarAn elongate ridge of pyroclastic palagonitic tuff, lava delta hyaloclastites, and pillow lavas common in Iceland, erupted subaqueously within an englacial lake during a subglacial volcanic fissure eruption.
• töltA four-beat lateral ambling gait mainly found in Icelandic horses.
• vaagmerThe dealfish, Trachipterus arcticus
• vinartertaA dessert of cake with layers of prune filling.
• WestfjordsA region of Iceland.
• Westman IslandsAn archipelago off the south coast of Iceland.
• yokulAn ice-covered volcano in Iceland.
• Yule ladOne of several trolls, children of the ogress Grýla, who, according to Icelandic folktales, arrive one each day from December 12th through December 25, and leave one each night from December 25 through January 6. The Yule lads are associated with tricks and mischief, but also with carrying off naughty children in a burlap bag and eating them.