I was told by a friend who works at Buckingham Palace that Dorrit Moussaieff was so angry that she was not invited to Prince William's wedding to Kate Middleton, she even got caught trying to bribe her way in. Anyway, she got a job as a cleaning woman in Westminster Abbey and they'll let her listen to it from the ladies toilets if she cleans them properly.
@volcanicvikingo I might be Icelandic but for one, i do not have an icelandic keyboard, and i will not change it over on my computer because there is no point since i dont want to be typing blindly on my keyboard not knowing what is what.
I'm an Icelander and even I cracked up when he said Gay, even though I know the name is Geir, that just makes it more funny when you understand the skrewup. If anything this news reporter just proved he's a moron who can't say shit right.
It may not be a bad idea for Icelander's to copy the Irish circa 1840-1970's migration to the U.S. I mean, just cause you're born someplace that your descendants settled doesn't mean you can't leave. Maybe cod fishing can't support 240,000 people..
@brradsullivan fyi his name is not Gay, it's Geir (it's an old Icelandic name which means 'spear'). The least news reporters can do is to learn how to pronounce names correctly to prevent misunderstandings like this. Just look at how they all pronounce Eyjafjallajökull. The guy in this video even got Reykjavík wrong and that word is not that hard. To learn how to pronounce foreign words isn't that complicated: We have the Internet for crying out loud!
@LondonLamb94 Actually, Iceland probably has one of the BEST governments in the world. They actually SUPPORT families and such. No other government will EVER do it.
on a further note, when you feel sorry for us primative eskimos in the north atlantic, think of this, the uk is craving energy, it has to purchase energy from other nations, we have SO much of it we can't even produce all of it because of kyoto, we have agriculture, fish, oil and energy in abundance.. the fat, tea drinking, bad teeth brits, and the lacy drug addicted dutch will starv a long time before we will.. who do think got this country to what it was 10 years ago? bankers? nope..
I read most of the comments and it really strikes me as odd of how cold people can be, never been a racist or int isolationism but, to be honest...
Since the british minister Darling decided to fully pay back the savings of british in business with the icelandic banks, without cosulting the authority's in iceland i say too bad, by law, the same law that everyone has to follow in the EU we don't have to pay a cent more then what is currently in the banking insurance fund, which is basically 7$
Okay for starters i think Icelanders are one of the non racist people there are... and if you think about it if we let foreign investors in and they buy up all our resources we really loose our independence... because we've sold everything we have away from us....
We have started selling cars to china, germany and other countries but at first it was hard because there where a lot of laws which made it hard for Icelandic car dealers to sell cars out of the country without paying extremely high tax rates... but the laws have been changed so that is all changing now :)
@gunnaringg Most of the latent racism in iceland is hidden because it is so rarely tested, since this community is largely homogenous
The xenophobia present rarely takes the form of racial crime or gang violence, but rather in the inherent distrust against any foreign entities. The EU discussion is emblematic of this, as are concerns about foreign investment in Icelandic startups; the discussion rarely tackles the actual issues, but rather devolves into an emotional argument about sovereignty.
@Shamaroth Iceland is a racist nation BECAUSE we have it so good. We get ''scared'' over that people that move to Iceland will ''ruin'' the ''good'' in our country. Which in a way is true but still very very wrong.
@in10forever Hey I'm from Canada. Take it from someone who lives in a country who has people from every nation living in it. YOUR PEOPLE ARE RIGHT. All it has done is make things bad here. A white, Canadian born person is actually in the minority at universities and such. Some malls can't have christmas trees or Santas because it offends muslims. Schools can't have secret Santas or christmas parties because it offends them as well. Sikhs can bring knives on trains and buses because
@canascot02 it's part of their religion. They treat Canadian women like they're worthless because that's just how muslim men are raised to be. It's not racism in your county, it's watching out for your own people. And it's not wrong.
@gunnaringg Icelanders have been in the past very racist, now we aren't as much as any other country but you cannot say that we are the least racist. I know for a fact that people still get bullied here.
the worst is over, the shock was in nov 2008, we still have our national resources, we have survived worst things here in Iceland, the year 1900 Iceland was one of the poorest countries in Europe. So it will be ok.
I have just returned from my 17th visit to Iceland and this video does not give an accurate view of the reality, in fact it is so full of inaccuracies it should be removed.
Icelanders are accustomed to hard times and are courageous enough to survive them during this current crisis.
uhhh, tundrasheep, my friends eat all that weird stuff... because they like it... at least that's what they tell me!
Long live the Viking spirit! Love the country, love the people.
Well, Icelanders are used to having a hard life because they make it hard for themselves by being backwards, narrow minded and always pursuing short term gains without any long term visions. Everything in this country is always a quick fix, lining the pockets of same rich and fat ass traitors that belong to the same families that stole from us under the guise that the Danish were being so bad too us.
Iceland just has to open it's eyes and realize that they have to unite and work as a team.
this is what happens when politicians give themselves powers well beyond their mental capabilities. Obviously the only book that they have read is Animal Farm.
The economic troubles of Iceland were featured on Australian T.V.. Sounds like Iceland is due for a change of government only this time with controls and procedures in place to ensure good governance.
p.s. Didn't realize what a beautiful place Iceland is, maybe tourism could get some of that money back
Það getur vel verið að ákveðin hætta sé á því, en staðreyndin er sú að við erum ekki enn orðin gjaldþrota og þetta myndband er fullt af lygum og áróðri. Það er gert til að búa til æsifrétt og sýnir bara eina pínulitla hlið málsins.
This video is so full of crap. Sure, Iceland has faced economic diffuculty, but we are not bancrupt, and we actually have one of the lowest crime rates in the world.
yes please try to tell me why whales are different from other creatures? and why a 300.000 people hunting 200 whales will affect the overall population of whales so hard. Isn't Icelands fault that the whales were close to extinction, other nations have to take that upon themselfs.
Well, if it is ok for Icelanders to hunt whales, then what will prevent the Russians, Chinese, Koreans and or the Indians from assembling whale hunting fleets ?
Is it only ok for Icelanders to hunt whales because they are Icelandic ?
what vikings ? Icelanders were just run away farmers, some couldn't even make it to Iceland, they became too seasick to continue so they stayed in the Faeroe Islands.
Run away farmers? no .. you're wrong.. They went from Norway to Scotland and Ireland and took slaves from there.. than they went to Iceland and survived one of the hardest winter there is in the world.. the norwegian king used then a brutal way to be the king in Iceland and Icelanders fought for years against him, finally they got freedom but then the danish king came and took the nation on his arm and that was very hard for the Icelanders who had so great story.
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lol and lol, where in the world did you dig up this "Braveheart" version of Icelandic history ?
The Icelanders never fought against the King of Norway. Icelanders did however slaughter some unarmed Spanish seamen though. The only battles fought by Icelanders, was when Icelandic clans fought Icelandic clans, we can call them Clan Wars if you wish. This ongoing feud is still being fought today in Iceland. This is why Iceland is on it´s knees, they cannot learn to cooperate and respect each other
Didn't we fight the norwegian king? oh we sure did! In every icelandic story is a very bloody fight against the norwegian, the danish and the swedish king. Sometimes the Scottish and the Irish to. And of course it was difficult for Iceland to live in a house with walls of mud till the year 1900. And when we got self-control and then Independence everything started to get better. And then it got to good and we had a massive banks who terminated the Icelandic financial system.
Icelanders cannot compete with other countries on an equal basis. They always have to be odd, strange or crazy. „I eat horse meat, whale and sheep testicles because that makes me so special Now that Iceland has it's trousers around it's knees after their own entrepreneurs took them from behind, they have a need to feel almighty and powerful. Hence the sudden need to kill as many whales they think they can get away with. They have been suffering from an inferior complex for ages.
The whales around Iceland are not even close to extinction and that's not at all what you were arguing about before. You've just run out of ideas to bitch about whale hunting..
I believe Iceland will come back strongly , All "old norse ' nations such as GERMANY , holland , austria , norway , lichtenstein , swiss , swedan , faroe islands should all form an alliance in helping there oldest brother ' iceland ' out of this crisis ! ... like NOW , not later , iceland is worth the help [ big time ] .. !!
well i have to say we are a very proud and peaceful countrie ... not at all perfect but i want to belive that there is hope ... we got nothing else so
that´s because we are happy, the age of greed is over. The age of trying to look posh, and actually believing we were richer then other´s. This is kind of liberation.
If I understand your question, you are asking for a two room apartenment, from 20.000.000ISK to 30.000.000ISK, divide this amount with about 150, you will get the prize in US dollars.
I moved here in August. Great timing, right? No seriously - even though this crisis is hard on us up here now, things are slowly getting better, and best of all: Icelanders are beginning to act like themselves again...
I'd move here even if I had the choice again. So feel free to come here - the exchange rate is also quite fun at the moment...
I read a Nat Geo with an article about Icelands suffering. The people are anxious but they wont let major companies exploit their beautiful land for hydro and geo thermal energy plants.
a smile leads to a laugh a laugh leads to a high 5 a high 5 leads to a hug a hug leads to a kiss a kiss leads 2 a finger a finger leads to a hand a hand leads to a lick a lick leads to a suck a suck leads 2 a fuck.right after u read it, something good will happen at 2:25 tomorrow. Get ready for the biggest shock in your life!! Whoever breaks this chain will be cursed w/ relationship problems 4-10 years. If you post this on 5 vids in 15 mins, your safe
i heard drink is mad expensive in iceland, sumtin like a tenner a pint! rip off man i doubt there will be fuck all people in the bars drowning their sorrows they might chance a few cans or nagins on the street or at home more like!
JOURNEYMANPICTURES.....THANK u so much for keeping us informed about whats goin on in some parts of the world....i love watching your videos.....from JAPAN
They're talking Danish. Learning Danish in school was mandatory back in the days, due to the fact that danes used to rule Iceland many many years ago. After the danes left they kept teaching danish in school. Today it's not mandatory, but you can learn it as a second language in school, next to german and spanish and other languages.
Toefetto, i Know. U see, I am Icelandic and was merely freaked out that everyone was speaking Danish with a horrid icelandic accent in the video. U see, in Iceland we don't speak Danish or any other nordic language in a daily manner, possibly do to the fact that we have our own language ffs - -''
I'm born there aswell, and lived there for the mostpart of my childhood. However I did not go to school there, so I don't know weather danish is still mandatory or not. However my guess about the video would be that the translator only spoke danish.
I don't think danish was ever a mandatory language among icelanders themselves, but we HAVE to learn it in school atm, it's not optional. And also, it was never the Danes that left, it was the Icelanders that declared independance from Denmark during WW2 as Denmark was occupied by Germany.
Apart from that, there is spoken some english in the video, so why speak Danish when most Icelanders speak english semi-fluently?
i feel sad about what happened.i visited iceland this september and its one of the coolest places ive ever been ...but i have trust that things will get better . The human capital there is amazing , everybody educated ,gifted , well-mannered ( even when they're partying ) individuals
ahh come on man ... we used to go out with friends from the hostel and icelanders , male and female , old and young , would approach us and start discussing where we were from and chatting about iceland and our countries and everything...and the professionals ive met in the hostel , in the restaurant across the road or in stores downtown where nothing but friendly
Well, although not Icelandic - and I have forgiven them for divorcing us in 1944 - the norse Gods are a hell of a lot more useful and intelligent than these desert religions.
The asatru is - obviously - a religion for free men and women. Which is more than you can say about the desert religions.
Why would the Jews destroy Western Countries? The West is their only protection against a United Muslim Nation. Everyone knows the US was ' ' this close to Nuking Iraq, Iran, and Pakistan. The only reason we haven't is they haven't provoked us enough and there was too much suspicion about the circumstances of 9/11.
They nuke 1 nation treasure or release 1 biological virus and the Nuclear option will be BACK on the table.
I lived and worked in Iceland from 1998 - 2003. I was surprised when I went there at just how easily people took loans for anything and everything.
The Icelandic government encouraged the culture of personal debt by allowing people to claim those debts against their annual income taxes, so in effect, debt was seen as good.
There is also an elite clique of rich people who run Iceland behind the scenes, and their tentacles run through parliament and the media.
He has probably studied or worked in Sweden - many icelanders come down to Scandinavia to study.
Many of them also speak Danish - a language they have in school or in college as an introduction to Scandinavia, since the Danish, Norwegian and Swedish are very similar languages - like dialects almost.
Hey im sorry to hear about your troubles. My folks house dropped 40% and their stocks dropped 25-50%. Good luck and know that this will blow over one day. Time to stand up against the bankers. Last time america abolished its central bank the country went into depression right before as bankers dried up all the loans. Then they tried to blame it on the president (jackson) and there was an assasination attempt on him.
well the bankers in iceland are from here, though.
they're just greedy thugs that's all
in america you have a much bigger problem.
the banks are mostly controlled by jews, who don't even belong in america, as they're loyal to Israel (just making assumptions here), and thus they don't care at all what happens to america and they try to milk it as much as they can for their zionist goals
The figures are staggering. Loans of 12 times the nation's GDP?! This shows how dangerous cheap credit is. Credit stimulates consumption, which determines higher wages, and with higher wages come even more loans, and the cycle repeats itself. Banks feel safe, businesses feel safe, consumers feel safe until the boogeyman shows up with the bill. Credit-fueled economic growth creates a false wealth that everyone is due to pay for, sooner or later. Same as in 1929.
WEll, all central banks created insane amounts of money (not printed, created) which was in no way representing the actual values the money represents. So everything became more expensive. The central banks then tried to fight the inflation they had created themselves by increasing interest rates...nice system we have.
Watch the "zeitgeist addendum" film, it explains very well whats wrong with our enconomy.
what fucked up iceland was actually an uncontrollable urge of greed from corrupt bankers and politicians, but the banks grew far beyond what the national budget could insure, so iceland can't pay the bank's debts.
Dorrit Moussaieff would go to an opening of a can of baked beans let alone a royal wedding
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tobqymaahy3713 9 months ago
I was told by a friend who works at Buckingham Palace that Dorrit Moussaieff was so angry that she was not invited to Prince William's wedding to Kate Middleton, she even got caught trying to bribe her way in. Anyway, she got a job as a cleaning woman in Westminster Abbey and they'll let her listen to it from the ladies toilets if she cleans them properly.
1556bigspender 9 months ago
@1556bigspender What does this have to do with anything about iceland
in10forever 2 months ago
Hahahahahaha most of this stuff is so wrong
zubtebustas 10 months ago
Fish and thermosomething opportunities, economic hitmen, IMF and World Bunk...
Don't ever surrender.
Kenzofeis 10 months ago
Why are all the icelanders speaking swedish/danish (cant tell) ..Hví ekki tala bara íslensku?
volcanicvikingo 1 year ago
@volcanicvikingo I might be Icelandic but for one, i do not have an icelandic keyboard, and i will not change it over on my computer because there is no point since i dont want to be typing blindly on my keyboard not knowing what is what.
in10forever 10 months ago
loodvig lead loodvigsen wtf
funkygamecritic 1 year ago
I'm an Icelander and even I cracked up when he said Gay, even though I know the name is Geir, that just makes it more funny when you understand the skrewup. If anything this news reporter just proved he's a moron who can't say shit right.
MrCrasyLasy37 1 year ago
police officer Gay John Thorrisson... :S
TheSuperFatCat 1 year ago
@TheSuperFatCat Geir i think
NitroxideHS 1 year ago
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Yeah, I guess the joke was too easy.
TheSuperFatCat 8 months ago
actually. iceland isent sinking, its rising up. it goes up 3cm every year and also grows wider 3cm a year.
in10forever 1 year ago 8
@in10forever haha Nice one!
lemondededemainTV 1 year ago
@in10forever thats a relief i got so upset when i saw this video
234semaj 2 months ago
It may not be a bad idea for Icelander's to copy the Irish circa 1840-1970's migration to the U.S. I mean, just cause you're born someplace that your descendants settled doesn't mean you can't leave. Maybe cod fishing can't support 240,000 people..
lioncat52302 1 year ago
as soon as they said the guys name was "GAY" i stopped listening lol
brradsullivan 2 years ago
@brradsullivan fyi his name is not Gay, it's Geir (it's an old Icelandic name which means 'spear'). The least news reporters can do is to learn how to pronounce names correctly to prevent misunderstandings like this. Just look at how they all pronounce Eyjafjallajökull. The guy in this video even got Reykjavík wrong and that word is not that hard. To learn how to pronounce foreign words isn't that complicated: We have the Internet for crying out loud!
Gondaldin 1 year ago
I think some of thees Interviewer's need to take some anti depression drugs.
Funny who many Icelanders talk Norsk in this clip? I've newer seen that so mush her in Iceland.
storastalandiheimi 2 years ago
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haakonbrachel 2 years ago
I'm a citizen in Iceland and I think the government is awful and I specially hate the left-political parties. FUCKING SOCIALISM!!!
LondonLamb94 2 years ago
watch 'The Money Masters' documentary
wwintelligencer 1 year ago
thanks
dangermous1968 1 year ago
@LondonLamb94 Actually, Iceland probably has one of the BEST governments in the world. They actually SUPPORT families and such. No other government will EVER do it.
in10forever 10 months ago
icelandic people know that god is not real we are not dumb like americans we know what is going on and we are fighting the machine
skakkur 2 years ago 3
Dont go to religion or alcohol to resolve your problems. Be creative, don something!!!
cerritoboy 2 years ago
FUCK BANKERS!!!!!!!!
laetrille 2 years ago 2
Sorry to hear the sad news.
But excellent reporting.
razban01 2 years ago 3
Iceland=Ice cream
q3bi 2 years ago
on a further note, when you feel sorry for us primative eskimos in the north atlantic, think of this, the uk is craving energy, it has to purchase energy from other nations, we have SO much of it we can't even produce all of it because of kyoto, we have agriculture, fish, oil and energy in abundance.. the fat, tea drinking, bad teeth brits, and the lacy drug addicted dutch will starv a long time before we will.. who do think got this country to what it was 10 years ago? bankers? nope..
deveant85 2 years ago
I read most of the comments and it really strikes me as odd of how cold people can be, never been a racist or int isolationism but, to be honest...
Since the british minister Darling decided to fully pay back the savings of british in business with the icelandic banks, without cosulting the authority's in iceland i say too bad, by law, the same law that everyone has to follow in the EU we don't have to pay a cent more then what is currently in the banking insurance fund, which is basically 7$
deveant85 2 years ago
Lol, the narrator pronounces the names so badly XD
LappalingurII 2 years ago 2
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These guys should let foriegn investment in. But they are probably to racist to do that.
flagship21 2 years ago
Okay for starters i think Icelanders are one of the non racist people there are... and if you think about it if we let foreign investors in and they buy up all our resources we really loose our independence... because we've sold everything we have away from us....
gunnaringg 2 years ago 9
you should sell the cars to china
flagship21 2 years ago
We have started selling cars to china, germany and other countries but at first it was hard because there where a lot of laws which made it hard for Icelandic car dealers to sell cars out of the country without paying extremely high tax rates... but the laws have been changed so that is all changing now :)
gunnaringg 2 years ago
@gunnaringg Most of the latent racism in iceland is hidden because it is so rarely tested, since this community is largely homogenous
The xenophobia present rarely takes the form of racial crime or gang violence, but rather in the inherent distrust against any foreign entities. The EU discussion is emblematic of this, as are concerns about foreign investment in Icelandic startups; the discussion rarely tackles the actual issues, but rather devolves into an emotional argument about sovereignty.
Shamaroth 1 year ago
@Shamaroth Iceland is a racist nation BECAUSE we have it so good. We get ''scared'' over that people that move to Iceland will ''ruin'' the ''good'' in our country. Which in a way is true but still very very wrong.
in10forever 10 months ago
@in10forever Hey I'm from Canada. Take it from someone who lives in a country who has people from every nation living in it. YOUR PEOPLE ARE RIGHT. All it has done is make things bad here. A white, Canadian born person is actually in the minority at universities and such. Some malls can't have christmas trees or Santas because it offends muslims. Schools can't have secret Santas or christmas parties because it offends them as well. Sikhs can bring knives on trains and buses because
canascot02 2 months ago
@canascot02 it's part of their religion. They treat Canadian women like they're worthless because that's just how muslim men are raised to be. It's not racism in your county, it's watching out for your own people. And it's not wrong.
canascot02 2 months ago
@gunnaringg Icelanders have been in the past very racist, now we aren't as much as any other country but you cannot say that we are the least racist. I know for a fact that people still get bullied here.
in10forever 2 months ago
i have faith for countries like Iceland.
beautiful country with nice people.
also bjork is number 1 !
oifydude 2 years ago
Iceland stole money from britain - see DONT BANK ON THE IOM. How was this allowed to happen?
Sunshinelollipopday 2 years ago
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Krakkhaus 2 years ago 8
@Krakkhaus
Nobody in Iceland planned this, huh? Actually I planned this. And I'm in Iceland. Muhahaha.
sverrg 1 year ago
Iceland is a great country.
Buzzzcutboy 2 years ago 3
the bartender isnt icelandic =O
siggasoffa 2 years ago
Yes he is.
gummikalli100 2 years ago
the worst is over, the shock was in nov 2008, we still have our national resources, we have survived worst things here in Iceland, the year 1900 Iceland was one of the poorest countries in Europe. So it will be ok.
e1nn 2 years ago 2
I have just returned from my 17th visit to Iceland and this video does not give an accurate view of the reality, in fact it is so full of inaccuracies it should be removed.
Icelanders are accustomed to hard times and are courageous enough to survive them during this current crisis.
uhhh, tundrasheep, my friends eat all that weird stuff... because they like it... at least that's what they tell me!
Long live the Viking spirit! Love the country, love the people.
vecdor 2 years ago 3
Thanks man and wow you visit Iceland alot :)
maekkigleyma 2 years ago
Well, Icelanders are used to having a hard life because they make it hard for themselves by being backwards, narrow minded and always pursuing short term gains without any long term visions. Everything in this country is always a quick fix, lining the pockets of same rich and fat ass traitors that belong to the same families that stole from us under the guise that the Danish were being so bad too us.
Iceland just has to open it's eyes and realize that they have to unite and work as a team.
tundrasheep 2 years ago
tundrasheep
this is what happens when politicians give themselves powers well beyond their mental capabilities. Obviously the only book that they have read is Animal Farm.
The economic troubles of Iceland were featured on Australian T.V.. Sounds like Iceland is due for a change of government only this time with controls and procedures in place to ensure good governance.
p.s. Didn't realize what a beautiful place Iceland is, maybe tourism could get some of that money back
axeholme2 2 years ago
Það getur vel verið að ákveðin hætta sé á því, en staðreyndin er sú að við erum ekki enn orðin gjaldþrota og þetta myndband er fullt af lygum og áróðri. Það er gert til að búa til æsifrétt og sýnir bara eina pínulitla hlið málsins.
icevet 2 years ago 2
This video is so full of crap. Sure, Iceland has faced economic diffuculty, but we are not bancrupt, and we actually have one of the lowest crime rates in the world.
icevet 2 years ago
Við erum reyndar mjög líkleg til að fara á hausinn... Steingrímur sagðist sjálfur óttast það. (ég heyrði það í útvarpinu)
PesiCool 2 years ago
The Viking nation should move to Canada if it's so bad.
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ogkelt 2 years ago
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Inbred primitives !
They are taking their frustration out on the whales that live in the sea around their country.
STOP KILLING WHALES !
TRY TO BE CIVILIZED FOR ONCE !
tundrasheep 2 years ago
yes please try to tell me why whales are different from other creatures? and why a 300.000 people hunting 200 whales will affect the overall population of whales so hard. Isn't Icelands fault that the whales were close to extinction, other nations have to take that upon themselfs.
BigVill13 2 years ago 2
Well, if it is ok for Icelanders to hunt whales, then what will prevent the Russians, Chinese, Koreans and or the Indians from assembling whale hunting fleets ?
Is it only ok for Icelanders to hunt whales because they are Icelandic ?
tundrasheep 2 years ago
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ogkelt 2 years ago
you gonna tell a viking what to do? i wouldn't..
dantemustkill 2 years ago 2
what vikings ? Icelanders were just run away farmers, some couldn't even make it to Iceland, they became too seasick to continue so they stayed in the Faeroe Islands.
tundrasheep 2 years ago
first they went with the farmers and then they dropped the seasick to faeroe islands ,what books do you read ?
with a sheep iq im intrested where you got on the internet
icelandic29 2 years ago
Run away farmers? no .. you're wrong.. They went from Norway to Scotland and Ireland and took slaves from there.. than they went to Iceland and survived one of the hardest winter there is in the world.. the norwegian king used then a brutal way to be the king in Iceland and Icelanders fought for years against him, finally they got freedom but then the danish king came and took the nation on his arm and that was very hard for the Icelanders who had so great story.
icelandTV 2 years ago
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lol and lol, where in the world did you dig up this "Braveheart" version of Icelandic history ?
The Icelanders never fought against the King of Norway. Icelanders did however slaughter some unarmed Spanish seamen though. The only battles fought by Icelanders, was when Icelandic clans fought Icelandic clans, we can call them Clan Wars if you wish. This ongoing feud is still being fought today in Iceland. This is why Iceland is on it´s knees, they cannot learn to cooperate and respect each other
tundrasheep 2 years ago
Didn't we fight the norwegian king? oh we sure did! In every icelandic story is a very bloody fight against the norwegian, the danish and the swedish king. Sometimes the Scottish and the Irish to. And of course it was difficult for Iceland to live in a house with walls of mud till the year 1900. And when we got self-control and then Independence everything started to get better. And then it got to good and we had a massive banks who terminated the Icelandic financial system.
icelandTV 2 years ago
I get very sad when I read something like this from people that are improperly informed.
Antonsig 2 years ago
Icelanders cannot compete with other countries on an equal basis. They always have to be odd, strange or crazy. „I eat horse meat, whale and sheep testicles because that makes me so special Now that Iceland has it's trousers around it's knees after their own entrepreneurs took them from behind, they have a need to feel almighty and powerful. Hence the sudden need to kill as many whales they think they can get away with. They have been suffering from an inferior complex for ages.
tundrasheep 2 years ago
The whales aren't fucking close to extinction here, like they are in other places...
Plus, what's the difference between killing whales and killing chickens or cows for food?!
NONE WHAT SO EVER...
Fukcing hypocrit bastard..
Why do you have to blame a whole nation for something that a few people do?
Plus, we began eating horse meat, sheep testicles and many other weird stuff because we were so poor and had to eat everything edible..
PesiCool 2 years ago 2
the difference is that theres more chickens than people, and some whales are close to extinction. however iceland isnt responsible for the whales.
tuskinraver 2 years ago
The whales around Iceland are not even close to extinction and that's not at all what you were arguing about before. You've just run out of ideas to bitch about whale hunting..
PesiCool 2 years ago
maybe you don´t like to hold on to our traditions but Þorrablót has been held in iceland for centuries and some of us like to keep on to our culture.
And grow up this is not to be fucking special.
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giveshocker 2 years ago
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giveshocker 2 years ago
dumbass we hunt whales cause they are great meat,the best meat.
maekkigleyma 2 years ago
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giveshocker 2 years ago
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giveshocker 2 years ago
Neei hann er að tala íslensku, sem er svo dubbað með norsku og dubbað með ensku
thormodur1 2 years ago
Af hverju er hann að tala norsku?
thormodur1 2 years ago
þetta var eitthvað viðtal sem var á norska rikisjonvarpinu minnir mig ,var í viku klukkutima þáttur um ísland og kreppuna
mrhaze101 2 years ago
I believe Iceland will come back strongly , All "old norse ' nations such as GERMANY , holland , austria , norway , lichtenstein , swiss , swedan , faroe islands should all form an alliance in helping there oldest brother ' iceland ' out of this crisis ! ... like NOW , not later , iceland is worth the help [ big time ] .. !!
fourcups123 2 years ago
Build some ships and go invade England! Viking power!
tjmuller 2 years ago
Yes, we could invade England with our Viking Squad... All 50 of them :)
dresib 2 years ago
oh my god the world super power that is iceland invadeing poor defenceless england please no.
iceland will get back on it's feet and dust itself off just like all the other country's will good luck iceland ...
spiritofgeoff 2 years ago 2
He's not speaking Icelandic, but some mixture of norwegian and swedish.
ugluspegill 2 years ago
what language did you think we speak?
einsiol 2 years ago
the language of the trolls?
witpen007 2 years ago
Er þá ekki um að gera að tala Íslensku?
Dandrewz 2 years ago 3
i Live in iceland ;D
vallisss 2 years ago 2
Everyone seems so pleasant and relaxed. In most of the world a disaster like that would bring chaos on the streets.
Sibelius92 2 years ago 2
well i have to say we are a very proud and peaceful countrie ... not at all perfect but i want to belive that there is hope ... we got nothing else so
johannaivars 2 years ago
u live in iceland how is climate change impacted your volcanic island
chetansingh2006 2 years ago
that´s because we are happy, the age of greed is over. The age of trying to look posh, and actually believing we were richer then other´s. This is kind of liberation.
zooologist 2 years ago
so..how much for a 2bd 2ba condo in Reykjavik in USD ?
FKJRT8 3 years ago
If I understand your question, you are asking for a two room apartenment, from 20.000.000ISK to 30.000.000ISK, divide this amount with about 150, you will get the prize in US dollars.
zooologist 2 years ago
við erum alvarlega fokkuð
hlynur6606 3 years ago
are they faking this shit,with fake people?Like fake 911 and 77 phony fukn shit?I can get anyone a house for 2 thousand dollars.
creten69 3 years ago
well 2000 thousand kr is only about 16 dollars
loftleidir001 3 years ago
go get 20,ooo kr and i will get you a house in te untited states of whatever.
creten69 3 years ago
the police is talking on icelandic the bartender is speeking sweetish and the guy whit no job is speeking very bady scananavian langues
skaftios 3 years ago
norwegian and swedish,thats what they talking.
i dont know why, the bankman was icelandic but talked swedish, the bartender was norwegian not icelandic, and talked norwegian.
manotiokia 3 years ago
Why do everyone interviewed speak swedish and not Icelandic???
thomasbrorsensmidt 3 years ago
iceland is full of green, greenland is full of ice
thank you mighty ducks!
calibre9mm 3 years ago 2
mighty ducks gave people a very wrong idea about iceland we only have 2or 4 hocky teams
gotmjolk 3 years ago
I thought my financial situation was bad. hopefully Iceland can get better soon.
Geo408 3 years ago
I wanted to move to Iceland one day.
Terrakinetic 3 years ago
I moved here in August. Great timing, right? No seriously - even though this crisis is hard on us up here now, things are slowly getting better, and best of all: Icelanders are beginning to act like themselves again...
I'd move here even if I had the choice again. So feel free to come here - the exchange rate is also quite fun at the moment...
thomasbrorsensmidt 3 years ago
The reporter is Norwegian and the Icelanders are talking to him in Norwegian.
areharald 3 years ago
I read a Nat Geo with an article about Icelands suffering. The people are anxious but they wont let major companies exploit their beautiful land for hydro and geo thermal energy plants.
What happens next?
DcBz03 3 years ago
no its ur mama
gotmjolk 3 years ago
what was the name of the police officer, again
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ironrock3637 3 years ago
Iceland Arab state
raaraa33 3 years ago
How do you call someone that's from Iceland?
DirtySchoolBoy 3 years ago
They are Icelandic
BudleighSaltertonBoy 3 years ago 2
cool i didn't even know how to call them in my own language
DirtySchoolBoy 3 years ago
What do you mean?
PesiCool 2 years ago
i heard drink is mad expensive in iceland, sumtin like a tenner a pint! rip off man i doubt there will be fuck all people in the bars drowning their sorrows they might chance a few cans or nagins on the street or at home more like!
yousuck124 3 years ago
saibai go capsize
balah1310 3 years ago
no iceland does't speak swedish he's talking iceland i'm from iceland
siggi852654 3 years ago 2
journeymanpictures is perfect
picamak 3 years ago
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angakingmusika 3 years ago
áfram ísland!
guffaa30 3 years ago
Why is the police officer speaking swedish o_O?
hinni4 3 years ago
No sorry, everyone is speaking swedish!
hinni4 3 years ago
They're talking Danish. Learning Danish in school was mandatory back in the days, due to the fact that danes used to rule Iceland many many years ago. After the danes left they kept teaching danish in school. Today it's not mandatory, but you can learn it as a second language in school, next to german and spanish and other languages.
Toefetto 3 years ago
Toefetto, i Know. U see, I am Icelandic and was merely freaked out that everyone was speaking Danish with a horrid icelandic accent in the video. U see, in Iceland we don't speak Danish or any other nordic language in a daily manner, possibly do to the fact that we have our own language ffs - -''
hinni4 3 years ago
I'm born there aswell, and lived there for the mostpart of my childhood. However I did not go to school there, so I don't know weather danish is still mandatory or not. However my guess about the video would be that the translator only spoke danish.
Toefetto 3 years ago
I don't think danish was ever a mandatory language among icelanders themselves, but we HAVE to learn it in school atm, it's not optional. And also, it was never the Danes that left, it was the Icelanders that declared independance from Denmark during WW2 as Denmark was occupied by Germany.
Apart from that, there is spoken some english in the video, so why speak Danish when most Icelanders speak english semi-fluently?
hinni4 3 years ago
They are talking Norwegian.
areharald 3 years ago
ethnicity: Norwegian= Such as the country's Russian ice=Asia. Norwegian not Europe
Asian people live the north of Norway
raaraa33 3 years ago
Do these guys think they're American or something?
AnalgesicBalm 3 years ago
A small few had inside information no doubt, but iceland will bounce back, as jon pall would have said, icelandic power!
holstenpils 3 years ago 3
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hahaha fuck that pathetic island I hope they get invaded by greenland and ur all slaves and whores to the eskimos
manhattanwombat 3 years ago
you little dick
greenland is danish and only has 60,000 people
while iceland has 300,000
the only bitch to greenland is you
scarff94 3 years ago 2
wtf you ignorant racist bastard :P
Seriously, you're comment cracked me up! :D
-greetings from Iceland
PesiCool 2 years ago 2
The funny thing is there is an add for Bombay Sapphier to the right as I watch this.
useyourdelusion 3 years ago
i feel sad about what happened.i visited iceland this september and its one of the coolest places ive ever been ...but i have trust that things will get better . The human capital there is amazing , everybody educated ,gifted , well-mannered ( even when they're partying ) individuals
greeko25 3 years ago
haha you've been lucky if you think icelanders are well mannered
I'd rather say they're mellow and liberal
icelander's usually don't care what other people do unless it harms them directly, or until it harms them directly
like the banks did...
Greenhorsemanship 3 years ago
ahh come on man ... we used to go out with friends from the hostel and icelanders , male and female , old and young , would approach us and start discussing where we were from and chatting about iceland and our countries and everything...and the professionals ive met in the hostel , in the restaurant across the road or in stores downtown where nothing but friendly
greeko25 3 years ago
yeah sure, Icelanders can be really friendly and nice people, but we can also be terribly nasty people, especially when we're drunk XD
Greenhorsemanship 3 years ago
When money looses its value, we will all think of the farmer as the wealthiest person on earth. ~Raven
RadicalComedy 3 years ago
It was a euroskeptic who ran Iceland. It shows the euroskeptics make European nations weak. They do not care about unity.
KNOWYOUNOW 3 years ago
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go pray to odin you heathen icelandic bastards!
MinistryOfDanger 3 years ago
Well, although not Icelandic - and I have forgiven them for divorcing us in 1944 - the norse Gods are a hell of a lot more useful and intelligent than these desert religions.
The asatru is - obviously - a religion for free men and women. Which is more than you can say about the desert religions.
victor190779 3 years ago 3
Your are very right victor190779
georgpetur 3 years ago
funny they point to religion in one of the most secular countries in the world...
driftingsmoke 3 years ago
Why would the Jews destroy Western Countries? The West is their only protection against a United Muslim Nation. Everyone knows the US was ' ' this close to Nuking Iraq, Iran, and Pakistan. The only reason we haven't is they haven't provoked us enough and there was too much suspicion about the circumstances of 9/11.
They nuke 1 nation treasure or release 1 biological virus and the Nuclear option will be BACK on the table.
Creation27 3 years ago
In Norway, we are joking about buying Iceland.
Paeremannen 3 years ago
you do? if so FUCK YOU NORWAY!
habba24 3 years ago
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go pray to odin you heathen bastards!
MinistryOfDanger 3 years ago
That wasn't funny the first time.
Paeremannen 3 years ago 2
Ha, you are ignorant - they are no heathens, and certainly not bastards !
They are great, kind and helpful people - hopefully their economy will recover soon.
We will always be willing to help them - they are our brothers.
ElvenDane 3 years ago 6
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120,000??? HAHAHAHAHA!! XD!!
my city has 180,000 and we are super small...hahahaha
Caliboyz101139 3 years ago
you are pathetic
fffreakhc 3 years ago
fuck off , there are 350 thousond people in iceland!
habba24 3 years ago
I lived and worked in Iceland from 1998 - 2003. I was surprised when I went there at just how easily people took loans for anything and everything.
The Icelandic government encouraged the culture of personal debt by allowing people to claim those debts against their annual income taxes, so in effect, debt was seen as good.
There is also an elite clique of rich people who run Iceland behind the scenes, and their tentacles run through parliament and the media.
Iceland needs real change.
mulungungozi 3 years ago 2
Why is he speaking swedish with an icelandish dialect?
kansterstrak 3 years ago
He has probably studied or worked in Sweden - many icelanders come down to Scandinavia to study.
Many of them also speak Danish - a language they have in school or in college as an introduction to Scandinavia, since the Danish, Norwegian and Swedish are very similar languages - like dialects almost.
So he
ElvenDane 3 years ago
my parents are architects
we live in iceland, and we're fucked
thinking about growing cannabis to get a little money XD
Greenhorsemanship 3 years ago
Ah, didn't think anything could grow there :-)
Best wishes.
ElvenDane 3 years ago
Hey im sorry to hear about your troubles. My folks house dropped 40% and their stocks dropped 25-50%. Good luck and know that this will blow over one day. Time to stand up against the bankers. Last time america abolished its central bank the country went into depression right before as bankers dried up all the loans. Then they tried to blame it on the president (jackson) and there was an assasination attempt on him.
bukakkesake 3 years ago
well the bankers in iceland are from here, though.
they're just greedy thugs that's all
in america you have a much bigger problem.
the banks are mostly controlled by jews, who don't even belong in america, as they're loyal to Israel (just making assumptions here), and thus they don't care at all what happens to america and they try to milk it as much as they can for their zionist goals
Greenhorsemanship 3 years ago
The figures are staggering. Loans of 12 times the nation's GDP?! This shows how dangerous cheap credit is. Credit stimulates consumption, which determines higher wages, and with higher wages come even more loans, and the cycle repeats itself. Banks feel safe, businesses feel safe, consumers feel safe until the boogeyman shows up with the bill. Credit-fueled economic growth creates a false wealth that everyone is due to pay for, sooner or later. Same as in 1929.
r8wing 3 years ago 4
WEll, all central banks created insane amounts of money (not printed, created) which was in no way representing the actual values the money represents. So everything became more expensive. The central banks then tried to fight the inflation they had created themselves by increasing interest rates...nice system we have.
Watch the "zeitgeist addendum" film, it explains very well whats wrong with our enconomy.
ffeldesign 3 years ago 4
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ice can sink, thus, iceland is bound to sink by 2012 bcuz of da gravitational pull.
FOBmuzungu 3 years ago
It will be sad to see the people of Iceland suffer just because there were some uncontrolleable urge of greed here in the US.
LetItFloat 3 years ago
I'm from iceland
what fucked up iceland was actually an uncontrollable urge of greed from corrupt bankers and politicians, but the banks grew far beyond what the national budget could insure, so iceland can't pay the bank's debts.
Greenhorsemanship 3 years ago
Hmm, sounds familiar. Like here in the United States. We certainly haven't seen the bottom here either.
kxnipt 3 years ago
wtf language are they speaking? its not icelandic i know that but why are they speaking swedish or watnot? wtf
haunting123 3 years ago
norwegian
aparknattar 3 years ago
it's norwegian, but I have no idea why. I'm norwegian and I had no idea icelanders spoke norwegian as well english and icelandic.
Atrix3349 3 years ago
theay are The most educated peoples i have ever come across and altough im you ive seen alot.
i feel so horrible for them.
Mick342 3 years ago
oh yeah, and in the middle one of them is speaking swedish.
Atrix3349 3 years ago