Since Iceland’s settlement in the 9th Century, its history is littered with the tales of times when þetta reddast did not apply. It’s sort of a catch-all phrase that way.”Īt first glance, it seems an odd philosophy for a place where, for centuries, many things absolutely did not work out all right. It can also be used to offer comfort, especially if the person doing the comforting doesn’t quite know what to say. “It’s generally used in a fairly flippant, upbeat manner. “It’s just one of those ubiquitous phrases that is around you all the time, a life philosophy wafting through the air,” said Alda Sigmundsdóttir, author of several books about Iceland's history and culture. The phrase near-perfectly sums up the way Icelanders seem to approach life: with a laid-back, easy-going attitude and a great sense of humour. It means ‘it’ll all work out in the end’ – and if Iceland had an official slogan, this would be it. “Well,” said the campervan agent, “ þetta reddast!”Ī quick Google search informed me that þetta reddast (pronounced thet-ta red-ust) doesn’t mean ‘sorry, I’m not paid enough to care about your troubles’, or ‘try not to get stranded in the middle of nowhere’. Unfortunately, the town’s mechanic wouldn’t be available before we were due to make the drive back to Reykjavik. Once we finally got back to our apartment, we called the campervan rental company and told them the issue.
The van stalled twice more as my husband and I made the roughly 200km drive from Látrabjarg, a windswept bird cliff perched on the far western edge of Iceland, back to our base in Ísafjörður, the Westfjords’ largest town (pop: 2,600). It was late September, the end of the tourist season in a part of Iceland that sees about 6% the country’s annual tourist numbers, and the roads were all but empty. We were somewhere in the remote Westfjords, a large peninsula in Iceland’s north-west corner, when our campervan first stalled. With generations of hardships such as formidable weather, poverty and volcanic eruptions, Icelanders have learned to adopt the resilient Icelandic outlook of "þetta reddast", which shows that sometimes, it’s better to let go and look positively towards the future.
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