ICELANDIC HORSE NAMES

• All Icelandics should have proper Icelandic names. These can be ancient names from the Viking sagas, names based on the horse´s colour or markings, people´s names, names of the Gods or names from nature.

• The Icelandic alphabet has several "different" letters, and it does not have a C, a Q, an X or a Z at all. The letters you may not recognise are Ţ,ţ, pronounced "th", and Đ,đ, also pronounced "th" but more softly. Then there´s Ć,ć, pronounced "eye", Ö,ö, pronounced "oe", É,é, pronounced "ye", Í,í, and Ý,ý, both pronounced "eee", Ó,ó, pronounced "o" as in "go", and Á,á, pronounced "ow". The J is always pronounced like a Y. EI sounds like the "ay" in "bay".

• Mares´names usually end in "a", like Rúna. Stallions or geldings names often end in "i" or "ur". But this rule is not always applied!

• Here are the names of some horses, with their meanings:

• Árvakur - he who wakes up early

• Sölvi - sea god

• Rák - groove (she has a narrow blaze)

• Hetja - heroine

• Heiđur - honour (son of a World Championship finalist)

• Brúnka - brown mare

• Reifur - lively and glad boy

• Skuggi - shadow (he´s a blue dun)

• Ţrá - hope and desire (Mic's first silver dapple mare)

• Ísafold - a poetic name for Iceland, or an Icelandic mare

• Randalín - little girl in a stripy dress (she´s a chestnut skewbald)

• Faxi - mane (this lad is pale dun skewbald with a black forelock and white mane)

• Dögun - dawn. Another silver dapple mare.

• Kalsi - shiver of cold (he´s dapple grey)

• Árdís - goddess of prosperity

• Tíbrá - mirage (she´s "glóbrúnn", a weird golden brown colour)

• Fáni - flag or banner (he holds his tail very high when he trots)

• Kosning - election or choice (she was born on the local election day)

• Drift - cleverness

• Mólda - earth coloured mare (she´s a dun)

• Lundi - puffin (for a piebald)

• Elding - lightning

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