Icelandic translation services

Surrounded by fjords and glaciers, the islands of Iceland are rather isolated from the rest of Europe. Covered with volcanoes, hot springs and gazers, this land situated west of Norway is one of the world’s leading producers of fish and the home of the famous Iceland ponies.

Proud followers of the mighty Vikings, the people of Iceland have tried to keep Old Norse, the language spoken by their ancestors, untouched. Icelandic is believed to have changed very little from the original tongue spoken by the Norse settlers, this enabling those who master it to read medieval sagas with little difficulty.

Like all old Indo-European languages, Icelandic has a complicated grammar. The Icelandic alphabet might also prove challenging, as it contains letters that bear strong resemblances to the ancient runes and that are not used in any other languages (i.e. Þþ, Ðð , equivalents of the voiceless and respectively voiced “th” in English).

Icelandic is spoken by very few people today, around 300,000 worldwide. Consequently, it is difficult to find professional translators from/into Icelandic. Here at New Lingo we are able to solve this problem. If you are interested in our high quality translation services from/into Icelandic please do not hesitate to contact us.