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útrásarvíkingur

útrásoutward push, expansion
víkingurviking
raiding viking

which everyone uses to mean one of the celebrity financiers who bought up half of Europe before Iceland's banks collapsed in 2008

Coined by the Icelandic press on the way up, and left in place on the way down.

people

Literal glosses are a translator’s liberty, not a rule. This compound may have frozen centuries ago, with its pieces drifting since. If it is wrong, a correction from an Icelandic speaker is the whole point.

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