We were chatting with our tour guide this afternoon and asked her how to say the two most important words in any language, please and thank you, in Icelandic. What she told us was surprising until we thought about it for a bit. The word for thank you is Taak and there is no word for please. Iceland was settled by Vikings and what respectable Viking would ever say "please"?
Please, may I plunder your village? Why, thank you!
So there it is, only one magic word in Icelandic, and it isn't please.
1 comment:
Gail,
I'm not sure a Viking would even say "Thank you." Could the magic word be "MINE"?
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