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America often uses Smorgasbord as a word that means a bunch of something. He didn't mean a specific Icelandic meal or word.
Ye but smörgåsbord (swedish) is still swedish so she probably wanted to know what it was.
Yeah we tend to use it as a synonym for variety. Its not even what it means in Swedish.
Yeah...the word is used to indicate large quantity and variety.
We can use the word in that figurative way in Sweden as well.
yeas exactly! we're a buncha new yorkers and hitting the chinese buffet age 10 i remember my pop clapping his hands and saying "oh man thats some smorgasbord! " as a kid i had a confusing image of some kind of board in my head.
Hrafna: our most popular sports are *soccer* ...
Rest of Europe: Oh no you didn't!
@Spooky Gangster Fun fact: We're both in America and Europe
Iceland is a beautiful place, nature is so beautiful there
I stg I see you everywhere wtfff
Your videos and their content are brilliant. I have children older than you, so I'm probably not your average subscriber, but just to say you are wiser than your years, keep it up.
Yh wtf you’ve been commenting on literally every other video I’ve watched for the past 2 years wtfffff!!!??
Your the fake
*_[ah, good to see you here. Greetings from Iceland]_*
Hrafna, the word is "smorgasbord". It means to have a wide variety of something. Btw. Love your videos! Keep up the good work!
Mainly wide variety of hot and cold dishes in buffet originated from Sweden & became internationally known in NYC 1939 at world fair, sorry from Sweden js
@@isaacdarcy9827 But doesn't it just mean sandwich table?
@@nicolairvine6216 Not really hard to explain for me in english sorry 😅
@@nicolairvine6216 The direct translation is "sandwich table" but the meaning is what he wrote.
Smörgåsbord
1:28 it’s leviosa not leviosá
its leviosahhh!
Lmao that’s like a majority of her content
Know-it-all....
Be careful with this spell. it has a side-effect of giving an untimely erection.
I have a Faroese mother and father from Spain, I can understand the language but can't really speak it. I do love the rolling R's remind me of my family in spain. I have family in Iceland and it always fun to hear them roll their r's too.
Debe de ser uno de los matrimonios más inusuales del mundo xd
@@florianbirnbaum6584 no tanto, yo soy español y estoy casado con una feroesa. Es más, una de mis hijas nació en Torshavn c:
@@juancristobalsanchezabreu98 Joeer, pues es un pueblo poco conocido... Allí haces un diccionario español-feroés y te forras xD
I remember a Danish guy ranting about this 'happy scandinavian' thing. His words were roughly "Everybody says we are happy but how's that supposed to be measured? What's happiness in these statistics? Stop saying I'm happy! I'm perfectly miserable!"
ajajajaj
Was he drunk when he was ranting?
@shaka mata _ African pride So if people are living in worse realities than me, I'm supposed to be happy? That's just dumb. Everything must be judged within its own context.
Which country has the highest suicides per capita? NORWAY!!
"I'm perfectly miserable!" I love this guy
That's because liberals like to correlate Marxist success with Scandinavia. It's a lie I dated a Women Sweden and learned slot about the depressive culture. Not demonizing them by what I said. I'm demonizing the soulless social politics and forced subversion of Scandinavian identity. She was a nutter and I'm crazy so that's saying something.
@@odinschild2239 We both know you're experiencing severe cognitive dissonance and projecting your depraved American politics onto European societies, and also just as likely made up your story to try and make your case. You're not fooling anyone pal
Regarding the smorgasbord - I think a lot of English speakers use it with a definition like - a bountiful spread out variety of (insert foods)
Sam in the U.S. we use it a lot. Not knowing it was of Swedish origin mind you.
Smørrebrød, which he might have tried to say, is a national dish in Denmark. It's ryebread with different spreads. And Iceland has more history with Denmark than Sweden do, so it's likely he meant to say the danish word.
TeTea I hear you, but I’m saying as an English speaker, watching an English-speaking video, it’s more likely he used it with the English interpretation
Reason1717 yep me too, I’m Canadian/American as well
Sam Sanderson So you are correct. Smörgåsbord is exactly what you said: a buffet. It originated from the Grand Hotel in Stockholm and was featured at the 1939 World’s Fair in New York, at the Swedish hall’s “Three Crowns” restaurant.
It’s generally known as a “cold table” in most Northern European countries.
The original word comes from a popular Swedish open-faced sandwich called the Smörgäs (which basically means “buttered bread” or “butter goose”) and bord, which means table. These traditional sandwiches are a common food at holiday Smörgåsbords
random dude: *makes grammar error*
hrafna: *laughs* "i´m not making fun of the guy"
also hrafna: "in one sentence you were able to do 50 errors"
Haha never said that! honestly I was not making fun of anyone! I know Icelandic is extremely hard 🙌🏻 I just thought it would be interesting for you guys to hear how some of those words are actually suppose to sound like
@@Hrafna You have great spelling of Iceland language ;P
@@Hrafnamate i was just joking, i know you aint making fun of noone and yes it is extremely insteresting for us (at least in my opinion) to hear how the words actually sound like. once again it was just a joke and keep doing those good videos
@@przemysawjozwiak144 of course she has, because she is from Iceland..
@@Hrafna try Slovene... We have active double...😂
Hrafna, probably you are used to the smell of your hot water since you are icelandic but it does smell a little like sulfur haha
It's definitely that. I've lived on and off in the Reykjavík area and when you first get there, you can definitely smell it. After a year or two, you can't. Then you move to the countryside for a year or two, move back to Reykjavík and you can smell it again. Rinse and repeat.
And yeah, the smell isn't everywhere since not every place in Iceland has an easy access to geothermal water.
@@landkonnudur when I visited I stayed in Laugarás, close to Skálholt (the one where the church had it's seat) and you could definitely tell that the hot water is geothermal and is connected through different pipes. The cold water was one of the freshest and purest I ever tasted.
@@tammymammy1 Yes, I didn't say it was only in Reykjavík. Try travel in the west, north and east. The south is pretty geothermal.
The smell of White Sulphur is evident in SW Iceland's hot water. But this smell is pleasant, not the stinky fart smell of Yellow Sulphur. There is a big difference between White and Yellow Sulphur!
Doesn't it all smell like boiled eggs??
So nice that you reacted to Barbs video (Geography now), I love when he tries to pronounce Icelandic words😂
I have been watching your videos for years and your editing is great. I have learnt a lot about your country. Thank you 🙏
I'd been in Iceland a couple of years ago during a summer and I had a great time there; the nature, glaciers, people..
A place that I think is worth visiting again. Take care of yourself.
Love how you correct the pronunciations. It's important to stick to the right native pronunciation. Great video!
I think it’s good that she says it but many countries have their own pronunciation for big cities because mostly it is difficult to pronounce it in the native language. I’m from Germany and English speaking people also don’t pronounce our biggest cities the German way 😊
@@jas1292 Yes, I agree that as non- native speaker it will be impossible to pronounce some if not most of the words correctly. But since she is a native speaker it's great that she can show us how those words actually sound. About German names, here in Israel, sticking to Israeli pronunciation, we call "Bayern" "Bavarya", but the famous soccer team we call "Bayern Minchen". People just don"t know that "Bavarya" IS Bayern, and it doesn't have to be this way. In some cases the names were altered so much that it's difficult to recognize the similarity between the two versions of the word. For example "München" and "Munich". The later one is so different when pronounced. Even saying "Munshen" instead would be less misleading
Joel Klein There’s a long history behind why cities are named as they are in different languages. It’s not always just a matter of adapting the sounds from one language to another, it can also be as a product of different sound change rules applying over history to what was originally the same word when languages split into new ones. There is no reason to make people change there pronunciation to the more closely match that in the language of the people who live there because it is not the people who live there that the word is for. Same as other languages have different words for ‘apple’ or ‘dog’, they have different words and pronunciations for places. For instance, Reykjavik is an English word pronounced in one way and Reykjavík is an Icelandic word with its own pronunciation. (Also this isn’t me coming at you specifically or anything, I just ended up kind of rambling).
@@jas1292 Most English speakers are either too lazy or too stupid to pronounce foreign words correctly. My first language is English, but I made the effort to pronounce both German and Icelandic correctly as I was learning them.
The last thing I wanted to sound like was some backwoods bumpkin with a 1st grade education when I opened my mouth.
It's good to say how is pronounced, but you can't expect people from foreign countries to pronounce them exactly like the locals. It's impossible in some cases
I've heard foreigners butcher place names in my country too, but I don't hold it against them.
I have eczema on my wrist, sorry haha ignore that! Hope you like the video and don't forget to subscribe and follow me on Instagram ❤
11:12 Bjarki. That's me! I explained to him how the naming convention works :D Although just orally, while driving a car on the south coast, so I couldn't explain all the different inflections of Icelandic names, so the slight grammatical mistake there is not my fault :D
You bring shame to our family
XD
@vinod sharma yes
I will how he used the word "schmorgesborg", he is using it to describe a variety of food. I was not aware that it was even a Swedish meal. But English borrows a lot of foreign words. And always appreciate you properly pronouncing Icelandic words!
He might have meant Smørrebrød which is a national dish in Denmark. Who knows :P
It kind of relates to the word for Sandwich in Swedish (smörgås), but yeah I know how he uses it. It sounded like she was making fun of him ;-;, but he was just speaking English.
The word is Smörgåsbord and it basically means “buffet”. It is not really a borrowed word, but rather a real Swedish word that some Americans use since the 1939 World’s Fair in New York.
try to look at the "hardest karaoke song in the world" - i'd love to know your opinion on that :D
I second this!
I mean that's by an Icelander tho so it's probably accurate
Oh yes please.
Actually when the Video was released Icelandic people got crazy about it 😅
I made a video about it, of myself singing that song actually
The fact that y'all have so much trust in each other is pretty amazing. I can't just trust people that I don't know....and I'm sure that if I take a trip over there, I may come across as "standoffish" to everyone there. From videos and photos Iceland looks so breathtakingly beautiful.
As someone who moved to Iceland for about a year, the hot water does have a smell, like eggs, but after a week I got so used to it I didn't notice it anymore
Interesting! I guess we’re just so use to it that we can’t smell it at all! 😄
Portugal: *3rd safest country in the world*
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"when I was a kid I was taught that there were 8 planets in the solar system"
you must not be very old then
or his school saw the writing on the wall...or a case of false memory, but I prefer the first
or TOO old
This hit me like a truck.. 8, when I was a kid there were 9.... ooooooh :(
Since im Swedish id like to clarify on some things after seeing various comments talking about it.
The literal translation of the swedish word smörgåsbord is sandwich-table, but the way we use the word is kinda like afternoon tea for the brittish, where we eat an assortment of various breads, cheeses, ham and usually drink juice, milk or coffee with that.
So a typical swedish scheduel of food explained through digital/military time is breakfast around 7-9, lunch around 11-13, mellanmål (which is basically a quick snack before dinner, like a sandwich or some musli for example), then dinner at around 17-19.
When she said that people who do ice climbing weren't popular, I'm now imaging mildly depressed guys who ice climb, just sitting in their dark Rooms playing Minecraft
honestly i dont know how similar they are but my brother does rock climbing, and half the when hes not at work or rock climbing hes in his room, playing minecraft. or other games, but alot of minecraft. and hes sad.
When I went to Iceland the shower water had a slight eggy smell to it, maybe Icelandic people are so used to it they dont even notice
Same!
The sulfur from the geothermal heat
true , but its not everywhere. Its usually in older parts of towns. In some places where I lived it was such a crazy smell that I thought I will vomit :D but in another place there was no smell..
Same here, I didn't enjoy the water smell out there :) On the other side I totally get that it's genes that makes people smell or not smell some stuff. For example some say hoya flowers smell bad, others find it pleasant.
The smell is sulfer . I lived in Iceland for four months it takes a while but you get used to it
The nature of Iceland is incredible, what I find most interesting is that in Iceland there are volcanoes and glaciers at the same time. Fascinating 💙
Smörgåsbord is a loan word in english. Its pretty common there, they just use it to discribe a table with various dishes. It can even be used about other things than food, saying that you can pick what you like and that there is great variety. It doesen't need to be anything connected with sweden at all, even thou the original word comes from swedish.
Never heard that word. (I'm an English speaker.)
Tom Peled The word came into the US lexicon via the 1939 World’s Fair, where it attracted lots of attention. If you’re from another English-speaking country you may not have heard of it.
Hey i always appreciate you and your videos im from the United States and i find your videos to be one of my favorite things to learn about you always make me smile or laugh so thank you for sharing everything with us
..I love, love Skyr! Also the NASA training program in Iceland is true 🚀
I like how you pronounce the words properly. It is great for someone who is trying to learn Icelandic.
Icelandic seems to have a lot of rolling "R"s in their language, i cant roll my R so i sound like a bit weird =(
I'm Russian and our R is rolling too, but Icelandic sounds more, I don't know, cute? Well, maybe partially because of Hrafna.
@@cjnf11 Hfafna is cute af so maybe that helps :D i have a fair few Russian customers and old work friends The central and eastern Europe languages do sound quite harsh :D
Russian Rs are flapped while Icelandic Rs are thrilled if I'm not mistaken. The difference is very ridiculously specific but it still can make this different feeling. Thrilled Rs are longer, they have lots of flaps, while flapped Rs are normally just one flap.
I've been trying to learn icelandic, I still cant roll my R's
@@stubby4000 You are not alone my friend....^^
Interestingly a smorgasbord is a common expression in English. We basically mean a collection or bunch of random things.
Greetings from the UK
You're so respectful, so gorgeous and you're being realistic too when you say we are not perfect.
Being that I speak Spanish, I love that the Icelandic language/pronunciations roll its r's!
Your beautiful hrafna icelandic people are one of the most trusting and trustworthy Europeans always love you hrafna awesome video
Iceland has the best water.
And weather ;)
Wouldn't be so sure
Used to before all the tourists.
I really liked this video thank you for making it. I am so use to seeing how others view Iceland, it was refreshing to see what an actual person from Iceland thinks about them. I appreciate how you correct the speaker on the proper way to pronounce the words. Thanks again, you have a new subscriber.
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I love watching these types of videos and love hearing the correct pronunciation! Thank you!
Iceland is fascinating!🇮🇸❤️
-Germany
My friend and I are both Australian and visited on a tour in winter. Our Icelandic tour guide was the best!!! We saw lots of touristy spots but also hidden gems, it was amazing! So beautiful! Everyone was so friendly! I loved the scenery and the people!
The fact about the babies outside floored me ! Im from New York btw. Your baby will gone immediately lol.
The babys just take sometimes like a nap for like 24 minutes
I love when you say your own name! It sounds so beautiful. Greetings from Poland!
As a Liberian-American I find the rolling of the “R” very lovely 😊 🇮🇸 💕💕💕
You can find the rolling of the R lovely as a person, regardless of origins 😅
Wow, a Liberian American! Are you ethnically Americo-Liberian, by any chance? If so, that would make you a Liberian-Americo-Liberian!
When I listen to somebody speaking Icelandic then listen to Faroese the accent is very different sounding to me as a native English speaker. It almost sounds like German.
Trace Dominguez did a great job, given that he was focused on what life is like in Iceland AND why the people may be happy. Thusly, he would not focus on the negatives.
Video on adopting the Icelandic accent is both requested and needed. ;-) Wait......it's not always sunshine and rainbows there?
I have been in Iceland in 2014, in June. It was the travel of my life. Loved all I have seen about your country and I surely will go back there.
So interesting reading the comments and all the english speakers’ definition of smorgasbord. Fun fact, smörgåsbord literally means ”sandwich table”.
I enjoyed this! My aunt is from Iceland and my cousins were born there. She met my uncle while he was stationed there from the American military. My best friend is Norwegian but she’s lived in California for many years. We actually have a lot of Nordic people living in California.
I wish I could go there but its so expensive.
Hello gorgeous I’m from Houston Texas and after watching this video , I immediately subscribed to your channel and now I want to visit Iceland 🇮🇸 , Keep up the good work🌹🥰🇺🇸🇮🇸
10:20 The "g" in Icelandic is pronounced as "w" at the end words or between vowels, for example "sundlaug". That's what he meant
I think she didn't make the connection because although w and and the soft g have a similar quality to them, open and relaxed with a small interruption of the vowels, they have very different placements. One is done with the lips and the other with the tongue.
Smörgåsbord is a commonly used and known word in the United States (and yes, it’s Swedish). It means a “buffet” or a plethora of food. It became known from the 1939 World’s Fair in New York City, which featured a Swedish Pavillion, which for most Americans was the first look at Scandinavian/Nordic culture.
You probably know it as hlaðborð.
Most of Eastern European countries call it a “Swedish Table”, while the Japanese call it a “Viking”.
Thank you Hrafna! Iceland is Magical Island, with Wonderful People like you, I wish I could visit.
I LOOOOOOOOOOOOVE when you say it correctly, the icelandic language sounds really amazing, please keep doing that ♥!
There's a singer from Faroe Islands named Eivør, she has a lot of songs in Faroese (I hope I wrote it correctly xD), you can listen some to see if you understand the lyrics!! Also she's a really good artist, one of my favourite singers
It's time to learn geography....NOW XD
I loved the video. Maria, from Brazil!!!
Gives me the urge to make a meta video: ICELANDER reacts to ICELANDER reacting to videos about ICELAND. But sadly I've got real stuff to do.
You know, I would watch it.
Greetings from Mexico
LOL!! :)
I think it would be so rad to go to Iceland. I live in a tropical climate and can use a change. Thanks for the vlogs, they’re awesome🤙🏻
When the guy from the second video said he could smells the water it is true but depends the place. I lived closed of Kópasker and when I travelled to Mivatn for example, the water smelled diferent. Anyway the planet Iceland is wonderfull one of the most beautiful rare jewelry. Your videos are amazing love to watch them :)
Just a comment - smorgasbord is often used as a sort of shorthand for a very generous varied meal - like if you have a lot of different types of food on the table, an English person may call that a smorgasbord. Admittedly that's mostly in writing not actual spoken language 😂
A Smörgåsbord is Swedish for a cold buffet, which is itself a French term.
Most Northern European countries call it a “cold table” in their own languages.
Where I used to live (Hlíðardalsskóli) the hot water had such a high sulfuric (and other mineral) content that we used it to heat cold water via thermal transfer. That water was then piped everywhere so there was no smell to either our cold water or our hot water.
There was once a Tv show that I watched years ago and it was called the worlds best diet, which involved a bunch of Tv presenters travelling around the world and Iceland came on top to have the healthiest diet in the world.
I love how I have seen all those videos before, that's how much I love Iceland 💕💕💕
You could react to hetalia Iceland 😂 that's how the Japanese see you and it's completely different to Western views
No matter how country in the world how they far each other just life peace and healthy everyone 🧕🇸🇴 and find this channel when I searching Iceland RUclipsrs I feel happy when I found this channel
OMG Hrafna I love your accent and when you speak Icelandic. Keep up the amazing work.
I had no clue Danish was taught in Iceland! As someone who lives in Sweden, I find that so funny. Danish is the hardest of the Scandinavian languages in my opinion (Swedish, Norwegian, and Danish). We joke that Danish kids take a longer time to learn to speak because it is so difficult to understand.
Love your videos very interesting to me. Thanks.
7:34 i like Hrafna’s reaction to this video!!
1.) Americans say smorgasbord sorta often and it doesn’t really refer to Scandinavian meals anymore despite that’s where it comes from. We use it just to mean a feast or just “a shitload of food.” 2.) I think it’s OK to pronounce Reykjavik the American way if you’re speaking English. If you’re speaking Icelandic, definitely work on that pronunciation though. 3.) Iceland definitely has the smell of sulfur or something coming out of its faucets. It’s the geothermal activity or something. 4.) Great video as always!
I was waiting for your reaction when the guy of geography now says that "he does not recommend drinking game over his mispronunciation of icelandic " 😢 I hope to come and visit Iceland one day, since my aunt and uncle moved there 3 years ago ☺ kisses from Italy
😂Too Funny @2.39.In USA we pronounce it Smorgasborg typically without a D at the end,and we say that in regard to a Huge meal with lots of variety such as a Buffet or Thanksgiving dinner.So it is not used in a literal sense it is used as a general broad based term.Example: That dinner yesterday had a smorgasborg of Desserts.Also not all parts of USA uses that term.
I love Iceland and hope to go back soon! 😍 I only got to spend about 24 hours in Reykjavík, as I was there mainly to interview the singers of Söngvakeppnin. Would love to see you do a video about Icelandic music at some point! 🙂
Amazing video Hrafna! Greetings from Brazil 😊
You could make a video about your thesis too!
Felicidades por sus videos ,aprendo de su idioma ,y de su pais ,saludos desde Monterrey Nuevo Leon México saludos y mucha suerte
Dont forgot riding bikes. That's a thing. Most of my family in Iceland has bike with the outfit and kick ass helmets and shoes. 😂 I love being Icelandic. We are a unique bunch. 🇮🇸
Love this video idea. She always comes thru with a video when I'm having a bad day❤❤❤
Love your vids Hrafna! I’m totally loving Iceland more and more everyday! 😊
I love this. Trace Dominguez and Paul Barby have a lot of cool videos, so I love you commenting on them, for those 3 videos are probably my favorite about Iceland aside from yours. So good choice and very good to hear the real translations, and have the information about Iceland rejected or confirmed by someone who is actually from there. I would love to know how much of Iceland you have seen and what your take would be on popular tourist spots and which are really great, and which may be slightly overrated and if there is places you would recommend more, for I am hoping to go to Iceland next year.. I also think that it is cool that you guys learn both English and Danish and keep so well connected to the outside world even if you live on "another planet" :D
I've had an amazing time there. Looking forward coming back. Have lots of amazing friends there who were living in Peru almost 10 years ago and luckily one year ago I was able to visit them.
I would like to add something about the smell of hot water. This is geothermal water piped directly to people's houses and it does smell sulfuric although you probably wont notice if you grew up with it. As a child growing up in Iceland, we didn't have geothermal water on my street until I was around 6-7 years old and I remember it definitely smelled funny at first, a bit like eggs. My brother and I would run bread under the tap to experiment with the taste. Once we also made icecubes out of it. They tasted awful. When you get used to it, you don't smell it anymore but if you shower with anything silver, it turns black very fast.
Thank you for the video Hrafna! I wonder if you could make a future video for American tourists on where to stay and where to eat and visit in Iceland? If you've already made one (which I'm not sure if you did), I'll check it out! Thank you again!
Omg! Hrafna I'm from Brazil and I looooooove your videos and your English! :) ❤️
I never knew mutch about Iceland until I was in France for the euros when just before england played them I done a bit of googling then met some of there fans before & after the game the Icelandic people where so friendly there where buying us beers then the next day we where flying home at the airport there where Iceland supporters flying to there next game a lot of friendly banter definitely want to visit iceland
Some of the hot water in Iceland has a very sulphuric smell to it, which is normal. Happens in other vulcanic islands as well. I've experienced this particularly in the westfjords and also in a few other hotels, but definitely not in the Reykjavik area.
amazing vid i live in iceland and i really enjoyed whatching this
Personally i like that you provide the correct pronunciation as your language is wonderful to listen to
He’s not using the word smorgasbord literally, in English it’s common to use the word when referring to a wide variety of items or products not just food. E.g you could say there was a smorgasbord of video games on offer
It'd be great to see a video talking about Icelandic music. Always enjoy your content regardless!
Smorgasbord is a word sometimes used to describe a huge variety.
LOL LOVED your reactions Hrafna, you're like a 'big sister' in a RUclips way of course. I liked this video a lot yes!!!! :) #HrafnaReactionTime
I like whenever someone says something ridiculous, she looks right at the camera.
Great review, loved it
She is so awesome
Videos in "Geography Now" channel are typically well-researched and the crew is always in touch with people from aroud the world for some additions and corrections to their content. When I watched the episode about my country, everything seemed correct to me besides... yes, you guessed it, pronunciation XD
Love the video consistency
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Been to Iceland, I think if you grow up with the tap water you don't notice it but I wasn't aware that water had as strong as a smell as that and I was sure there was something wrong with the water supply because if it smelt like that over here there would have been a big problem. Asked the tour guide and they explained.
Hrafna, what about to make another video from outside or with somebody? To show people who never have been to Iceland lets say Hafnarfjordur, or Reykjavik.. it could be interesting for them :). Anyway, nice video !
Americans USED to go to school by themselves. I don't remember how I got to nursery school or kindergarten, but I certainly remember walking to and from school when I was in the 1st grade. The good old days when our parents didn't feel the need to escort us on Halloween night.