English words from Icelandic
- goaA form of trance music that originated during the late 1980s in Goa, India, typically with droning basslines and progressive beat changes.
- 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.
- ReykjavikThe capital city of Iceland.
- immerA bird in genus Gavia.
- geyserA boiling natural spring which throws forth jets of water, mud, etc., at frequent intervals, driven upwards by the expansive power of steam.
- 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.
- 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.
- fulltruiA deity to whom one is wholeheartedly and/or exclusively devoted.
- garefowlThe great auk.
- 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.
- 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)
- ReekwichThe capital city of Iceland. Official name: Reykjavík.
- ReykjavíkThe capital city of Iceland.
- sandurA plain created by the outwash of glacial meltwater.
- 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.
- 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.