Eth & Thorn

• New Website / Ný vefsíða 6 years ago I’m not regularly updating this blog anymore, but I *do* have a website now! Head on over to larissakyzer.com to check out new projects, publications, and news. Hlakka til að sjá ykkur þar!
• Icelandic with an Accent 8 years ago Just a quick post to share this five-minute (subtitled) film “Ég tala íslensku með hreim” (‘I Speak Icelandic with an Accent’) that a fellow útlendingur, or foreigner, shared with me today. It’s a series of quick interviews with Icelandic speakers … Continue reading →
• Campaganza 2016: Hraunborgir 8 years ago Midsummer is nigh here in Iceland and although our run of astoundingly sunshiney summer days seems to have finally caved to the status quo and gotten rainy again, Mark and I have finally gotten the Summer 2016 Campaganza (that is … Continue reading →
• Visually Descriptive Vocab: Appelsínuhúð 8 years ago Hello, Internet! It’s been forever, I know, and I’m not going to spend too much time at the moment rehashing the time gone by. Suffice to say that I took three translation-related MA courses last semester and worked harder than … Continue reading →
• By the Time the Sun Goes Down (A Short Short Story) 9 years ago Back in the spring, the Iceland Writers Retreat held a writing contest. Using a photo taken in the Harpa concert hall as inspiration (see above), participants were supposed to write an original short story or essay of no more than … Continue reading →

• 5 Things You Can't Find in Iceland...Except When You Can Writing Contest March 2013 It’s a small country in the middle of the North Atlantic, so one probably expects upon arrival that there are a lot of things that are hard to come by in Iceland. This is certainly true, but nevertheless, Iceland, like Walt Whitman, “contains...

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