Icelandic exonyms

Icelandic exonyms

The following is a list of Icelandic exonyms, that is to say names for places that do not speak Icelandic that have been adapted to Icelandic spelling rules, or are simply native names from Viking times.

ee also

*List of European exonyms
*Street names in Iceland

References

* "Íslensk orðabók" (2003). Edited by Mörður Árnason. ISBN 9979-3-2353-1
* [http://www.ismal.hi.is/landahei.html Icelandic Language Center:Country names]


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