He sounded subdued, and said he has not been working much, having just suffered through a personal tragedy. On March 24, he said, his wife of 33 years, Doria Palmieri Reagan, died of complications from a progressive neuromuscular disease that she developed seven-and-a-half years ago. A clinical psychologist, Doria Reagan was seven years older than her husband.
Icelandic is rich in words which describe natural features and phenomena often in a very poetic way, such as SnÃ¦fellsjÃ¶kull (described above), SkjaldbreiÃ°ur (broad shield), and HerÃ°ubreiÃ° (broad shoulders).
Icelandic is a North Germanic language, the language of Iceland. Its closest relative is Faroese and Norwegian dialects such as Telemark dialect and SognamÃ¥l. While most West European languages have greatly reduced levels of inflection, particularly in regards to noun declension, Icelandic retains an inflectional grammar comparable to that of Latin or, more closely, Old Norse and Old English.