My review of a very curious and narrow Amazon product.
This is the flag
of a small Icelandic group which promotes something dubbed “High Icelandic” or
“ultrapurism”. Foreign loanwords have long been de facto banned on Iceland (at
least until the advent of the modern computer age), but the High Icelanders
want to go even further, purging even perceived Latinisms and Germanisms from
Old Icelandic or Old Norse. The flag of the ultrapurists, Thorsfronve, shows
Thor´s hammer (a “Viking” symbol) rather than the Christian cross, suggesting
that this movement might have pagan revivalist traits. I´m not sure how active
the High Icelanders are today, but old websites suggest that this really was
their symbol. Based!
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