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).
And you can read about new Icelandic words on the side of your milk cartons. The language is rich in words but a lot of words have double or triple meanings, meaning word puns are popular in (completely untranslatable) jokes. Is Icelandic One of the Hardest Languages in the World? Icelandic is known for being a hard language to learn. For Western Europeans and people with English as their native language, I dare say itâs still not that hard.