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útrásarvíkingur
''Útrásarvíkingur'' (, 'raiding viking', plural ''útrásarvíkingar'') is a neologism coined during the early twenty-first century Icelandic banking boom (the so-called Icelandic outvasion) as a term for Icelandic financiers who rose to prominence with a string of high-profile, credit-fuelled purchases of European businesses. The concept that it denotes, which imagines the financier as a modern-day Viking, has been the subject of extensive scholarly research investigating its relationship with Icelandic nationalism and the causes of the 2008–2011 Icelandic financial crisis. Literal meaning ''Út'' means 'out'; ''rás'', in this context, means 'a rush, race, sprint, expansion'; and ''útrás'' correspondingly means ''outward rush''. This term ''útrás'' was used in Icelandic to denote Icelanders' acquisitions of foreign assets during the early twenty-first century banking boom. This word has often been rendered into English in the Icelandic media using the calque ''outvasio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neologism
A neologism Greek νέο- ''néo''(="new") and λόγος /''lógos'' meaning "speech, utterance"] is a relatively recent or isolated term, word, or phrase that may be in the process of entering common use, but that has not been fully accepted into mainstream language. Neologisms are often driven by changes in culture and technology. In the process of language formation, neologisms are more mature than '' protologisms''. A word whose development stage is between that of the protologism (freshly coined) and neologism (new word) is a ''prelogism''. Popular examples of neologisms can be found in science, fiction (notably science fiction), films and television, branding, literature, jargon, cant, linguistics, the visual arts, and popular culture. Former examples include ''laser'' (1960) from Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation; ''robot'' (1941) from Czech writer Karel Čapek's play ''R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)''; and ''agitprop'' (1930) (a portmanteau of " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walbrook Club
The Walbrook Club is a social and business dining club near the Bank of England and the Mansion House located in the Ward of Walbrook in London. The Club is set in a Queen Anne-style townhouse at the end of a private court next door to the UK offices of Rothschild's, the Church of St Stephen's, and opposite the Bloomberg European Headquarters. There is a bar, a dining room, and two smaller private rooms. History Formerly the family offices of the life peer and former Chairman of the Arts Council of Great Britain, Lord Palumbo, The Walbrook Club opened its doors in May 2000 and was the last club designed by the late Mark Birley of Mark's Club, Annabel's Annabel's is a private members club at 46 Berkeley Square in Mayfair, London. It was opened at 44 Berkeley Square in 1963 by Mark Birley and named for his wife Lady Annabel Vane-Tempest-Stewart. It was founded in the basement of the Clermont ... and Harry's Bar. The townhouse itself was designed and built in the ear ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bjarni Bjarnason
Bjarni Bjarnason (born 9 November 1965) is an Icelandic writer. He started writing poetry in his teens and by twenty had a play. He has received the Tómas Guðmundsson Award, Halldór Laxness Literature Award, and in 1996 was nominated for the Icelandic Literature Prize. Bjarni's early work was self-published, and did not receive much attention. However, his 1996 novel ''Endurkoma Maríu'' ('The Return of Mary) was a critical success: 'the novel is a fantastic tale of an unusually talented young woman and an unusual young man who loves her from afar. It takes place in several cities that show distinct similarities to certain European cities but are clearly illusory spaces'. In the estimation of Ástráður Eysteinsson and Úfhildur Dagsdóttir, 'Time is an important element in all his novels; their imagery is influenced by ancient myths and invested with a fairy tale atmosphere while simultaneously referring to modern phenomena.' Works Works are novels unless otherwise state ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tímakistan
''Tímakistan'' ('the time-chest' or, in the author's own rendering, 'the casket of time') is a children's/young adults' novel by Andri Snær Magnason. It has won several prizes. Form The novel is in prose, with a few verses quoted (one as the epigraph and others by characters). It has two narrative threads: a frame story implicitly set in Iceland and more or less in the present; and the main narrative, told within this frame, set in a distant and fantastical past. The narratives converge as it emerges that events recounted in the inner story explain the causes of events in the frame story. The story contains elements of satire of modern society. Plot summary In the frame story, the main character is a girl called Sigrún. The world is in the grip of an economic crisis, and Sigrún's parents are convinced by adverts to buy three flat-pack boxes which turn out to be boxes in which, when the box is closed, time stands still. Each family member enters their own box, in the expectat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andri Snær Magnason
Andri Snær Magnason (born 14 July 1973) is an Icelandic writer. He has written novels, poetry, plays, short stories, and essays. Andri is also a director and producer of three documentary films that have premiered in IDFA and CPH:DOX. His work has been published or performed in more than 40 countries. He has received the Icelandic Literary Prize in all categories, fiction, non-fiction and for children's literature. The first time in 1999 for the children's book ''The Story of the Blue Planet'', and again in 2006 for the non-fiction book '' Dreamland'', a critique of Icelandic industrial and energy policy. He also won the prize for his 2013 book, Tímakistan, The Casket of Time. Andri wrote an obituary for the first glacier Iceland lost to climate change, Ok-glacier in 2019 with these words: “Ok is the first Icelandic glacier to lose its status as a glacier. In the next 200 years all our glaciers are expected to follow the same path. This monument is to acknowledge that w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Töfrahöllin
''Töfrahöllin'' ('hall of enchantments') is the fifth novel by Böðvar Guðmundsson, published in 2012 by Uppheimar. Summary The protagonist of ''Töfrahöllin'' is Jósep Malmholm, born in the 1960s into a wealthy and highly educated family. Jósep's father is a member of Iceland's urbane upper classes and his mother a bright, upwardly mobile, but ultimately frustrated woman of working class fishing stock from the Vestmannaeyjar. The summers which the young Jósep spends in the countryside at the farm of Litla-Háfi with older male working-class relatives on his mother's side provides a reference point of happiness and wellbeing through his often dystopian later life. These relatives are his maternal grandfather, a committed communist, and another male relative of roughly Jósep's mother's generation, the farmer Símon, who is milder than Jósep's grandfather and a yet more reliable touchstone for prudent, traditional, rustic Icelandic values. Jósep meets the nouveau-riche in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
