nýr

    1. boom (noise, clatter, crash, roar

    2. new, not having existed before, newly made, unused


lenda

    1. territory, estate

    2. landing, disembarking, occupying

    3. handing over a land (to someone)


nýlenda

    1. a land (territory) or a former independent state wholly ruled by a (distant) state which exploits it at the same time (colonia)

    2. a nation’s new area in another country

    3. a group of fellow countrymen abroad, especially on a continuous (small) territory


gat

    1. a crack through something, hole, opening

    2. earmark, a cut in an ear

    3. lack of knowledge or a bad grade


at

    1. battle

    2. noise, conflict, hard work

    3. covering (someone) with dirt

    4. filth

    5. melanin, pigment


ata

    1. making dirty, desecrating



gata

    1. street, path, road, way

    2. piercing, making a hole (in something)

    3. not knowing, being unable to answer a question



(Nýlendugata, i.e. Colony Street)






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Snorri Páll

Katrín Inga

Ísleifur

Oliver

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