Iceland is now seeking a new name. This is being conducted via the internet and people are urged to enter ideas for a more appropriate, more marketable name for the country, one that will better descibe what it is like to live here or to visit us. Apparently a recent survey conducted on tourist got ten thousand replies regarding the coutry's name being illfitted. Which is true in some sense, what would you expect to see here if you knew nothing of Iceland? Oh yes. Ice, and not of the type you see floating around in cocktails. So the marketing department of Iceland decided a change is due and are seeking a more selling name. And they inted to market trips here using this new name. I am sure this will be done in a manner where the real name will be prominent as well as the catchy one, as there is no reason to make the effort of advertising trips to a country that the airlines have never heard of or google maps.
Lots of suggestions have now been made. The one I like the most is the one that is surely likely to win: Niceland
Then there are the joke ones: Banania, Debt and one invoving a Pen (please note that Iceland is Island in Icelandic).
But for now, goodbye sweet summer, I will miss you:
But we will meet again - same time, same place, although maybe by a different name.
Yrsa - Wednesday
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Let me know if Iceland has a new name by next Saturday, would you? Thanks.
ReplyDeleteHi Peter - I will, let's hope it won't be the one with the Pen and the Icelandic Iceland version. Might start our panel off on the wrong note.
ReplyDeleteI think Iceland and Greenland should swap names. Seriously.
ReplyDeleteGreenland was called Greenland for marketing reasons, Eric the Red wanted people to be impressed by him finding a wonderful, lush pot and hence the name. Iceland was named by Hrafna Flóki - a guy that was a lazy farmer and crappy fisherman who fled after trying to live here and not succeeding. He named the country Iceland so that his feeling would not look chicken. So you are very, very right.
ReplyDeleteI have always had a soft spot for Erik the Red, Leif Ericsson, and Bjarni Herjólfsson since we learned about them in Grade 5 Canadian history class. They were my first European homeboys,
ReplyDeleteMaybe I'll introduce you a la Prince: Yrsa, from the country formerly known as Iceland.
In my earlier comment the wonderful lush pot was supposed to be a wonderful lush spot. And Hrafna Flóki did not want his "fleeing" to look chicken, not feeling as I mistakenly wrote. Why do they not have spellchecker on this comment board. That being said it would not have caught wither of these mistakes.
ReplyDeletePeter - that sounds appropriate. Shall I wear purple?
ReplyDeleteSince it is election time here in the States, and all the lobby groups are hard at work, I have to ask whether the Icelandic map makers have a strong lobby. Perhaps a small investment in one of them would reap rich rewards!
ReplyDelete"Yrsa, if you value your life do NOT wear purple to Cleveland," quoth the (Baltimore) Raven.
ReplyDeleteJeff
I'd name it Yrsaland!
ReplyDeleteYou all make me laugh! Iceland is becoming very hip...or am I late to the ball?
ReplyDeleteYrsa, just got the latest CWA newsletter. You're a cover girl!
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