Slow down boys...
jólasveinar @home
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And the jólasveinar keep stumbling in, the pace ramping up as christmas approaches (actually it is steady at one per day, it just feels ever more frantic)
and the jólasveinar march on with their stout staffs in their hand...
this morning
Oh dreadful son-of-a-troll!
Last night the most feared of all the jólasveinar came, and a true son of a troll is he...
Yes, 'tis the season, and jólasveinarnir are headed for town:
Okay, I've been playing along and having fun, but . . . How in the hell do you wrap your lips around a consonant cluster like "þv"? (Not to mention the front-rounded vowel that follows, which I assume is a given for non-English speakers.) Even if I assume that Icelandic v is closer to English W than English F, that's still just a crazy consonant jumble for a nominally Germanic language.
(And happy holidays to you and yours, for what it's worth.)
natural agility...
Icelandic is phonetic - Ã is the hard eth sound, as opposed to the mid-word soft eth that is the Ã
v is as in english, except icelandic does not distinguish v and w
the ö is a long vowel (bit like an uh but not quite)
the rest is as it is, but short vowels, except for the ei which is a single long vowel, like the Canadian eh