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).
For example, Old Norse poets might replace sverÃ°, the regular word for â sword â, with a more abstract compound such as âwound-hoeâ (Egill Skallagrimsson: SkallagrÃ­msson hoefuÃ°lausn), hÃ¶fuÃ°lausn 8 or a genitive phrase such as âranda iss Ã­ssâ (Ice Of : âÃxarflokkrâ einarr). skulason skÃºlason oexarflokkr Ã¸xarflokkr 9