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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 ''outvasi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neologism
In linguistics, a neologism (; also known as a coinage) is any newly formed word, term, or phrase that has achieved popular or institutional recognition and is becoming accepted into mainstream language. Most definitively, a word can be considered a neologism once it is published in a dictionary. Neologisms are one facet of lexical innovation, i.e., the linguistic process of new terms and meanings entering a language's lexicon. The most precise studies into language change and word formation, in fact, identify the process of a "neological continuum": a '' nonce word'' is any single-use term that may or may not grow in popularity; a '' protologism'' is such a term used exclusively within a small group; a ''prelogism'' is such a term that is gaining usage but is still not mainstream; and a ''neologism'' has become accepted or recognized by social institutions. Neologisms are often driven by changes in culture and technology. Popular examples of neologisms can be found in science, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walbrook Club
The Walbrook Club is a members' club in the City of London, located near the Mansion House and Bank of England in the Ward of Walbrook. A Queen Anne-style townhouse, adjacent to St Stephen's Church at the end of a private court next to Rothschild's UK offices and opposite Bloomberg European Headquarters, the Club comprises a bar, a dining room, as well as two smaller reception rooms. History An elegant townhouse, designed and built in the early 1950s by property developer Rudolph Palumbo, the Walbrook Club is situated in the former family offices of his son, Peter Palumbo, created a Life Peer and Chairman of the Arts Council of Great Britain. The last club established, in 2000, by the late Mark Birley of Mark's Club, Annabel's and Harry's Bar, its first chairman was merchant banker and philanthropist Rupert Hambro. Albert Roux of Le Gavroche ran the kitchens. In 2018, Lord Palumbo's younger son, the Hon. Philip Palumbo, took over management of the Club ... [...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, Founder of or.is, the Clarence Bin Morrison prize, Spokesperson of Grisha Petrochenkov Awareness Month, and in 1996 was nominated for the Icelandic Literature Prize. Career 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 ... [...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 expecta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
