UselessGit is Icelandic, but I haven’t seen him around for awhile.
I took a linguistics course, before the dawn of vertebrate life, and we used Old Norse, which is much like Icelandic, as our subject language. FWIW Old Norse for “strong man” is stori mathr. Mathr follows a strange declination; nominative singular uses that form, but the other cases and numbers use forms that are based on mann, making them more like the word in other Germanic languages.
This is not Strinka, this is a friend of his answering because Strinka has asked me about this topic:
I am not Icelandic, so I can’t promise complete accuracy, but I cannot think of slang that really means these or are equivalent to. In fact, I think you’re really barking up the wrong tree if you’re actually trying to find translations of American slang for a project involving Iceland. Try just finding common expressions amongst Icelandic youth rather than “slang.”
If you’re not a native speaker or fairly fluent, slang is almost impossible to make sense of let alone realize that it’s not just the regular language in ANY language. However, expressions used mainly among a particular age group are much easier to find. For those you can just surf through various Icelandic blogs. However, now for the even more disappointing part of my response: the youth of Iceland use relatively the same language as the adults. Icelandic is famous for this, makes it a linguistic wonder because it hasn’t changed much at all over the past 1,000 years, which is caused by similar speech patterns in both adult and youth. Grant it, that might slowly be changing due to the advent of the internet, but results are still slow to come in on that.
So, are you lookin’ to piss off a bunch of guys from Iceland? Those guys plundered western Europe before they went there, you know. And no one went after them, either!
Think twice about calling them punk in Icelandic.
Tris
“To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.” ~ Sun-tzu ~