Many thanks to all.
Icelandic is a fascinating language with all the accents, which denote long vowel sounds, and interesting extra characters like the "ð", which Jeremy correctly points, is pronounced like a hard "th", like "weather", not a soft "th" as in "throw". At least that's my understanding.
It's surpring how, once you figure out the spelling, you can begin to see the similarities with English. And, of course, some local words used in England and Scotland are derived from the same words, foss, fell and kirk, to name a few. Think of "Kirkjufell" (church mountain) and Kirkjufellsfoss (church mountain waterfall).
