icelandic
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- islandic (100.0%)
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2. The appearance of the r in Icelandic
"The English Language" – Robert Gordon Latham -
Icelandic Ghosts The story possesses a further interest as revealing the unique character of the Icelandic ghost or phantom.
"Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race" – Maud Isabel Ebbutt -
Both in person and character he resembled Harold, the Fair- Hair of Norway, who is described, in the old Icelandic Death- Song of Regner Hairy- Breeches, as " the young chief so proud of his flowing locks; he who spent his mornings among the young maidens; he who loved toconverse with the handsome widows."
"Hyperion" – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -
I think the idea is Icelandic those ghostly lovers that came in the dark to win their beloved maidens, who as yet knew nothing of their having died, to ride with them over the snowy fields and frozen rivers, to join their friends at a merry- making which they were never to see; but there is something more mysterious even in this lover, for his passion has unearthly beginnings that lose themselves in utter darkness.
"Checkmate" – Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu