The story of the French travelers who sparked a large search for a polar bear on Melrakkaslétta peninsula in North Iceland has provided Icelanders with a welcome distraction from the endless rain and overcast skies. Making fun of France, Frenchmen as well as French customs and politics is, of course, an old and time honored European tradition.
After an extensive search by land and from air the Police in North East Iceland and the Icelandic coast guard failed to turn up any signs of a polar bear the French anglers admitted they had probably not seen a polar bear, but instead the scariest sheep ever.
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The best polar bear-scary sheep joke we at Iceland Insider have seen was created by local man Jón Már, who created the above Facebook meme of the terrifying non-sheep ókindin: In Icelandic ókind means monster, and can be used to refer both to mythical and real monsters. When Jaws was released in Icelandic cinemas its title was translated as ókindin. But translated literally ókind means non-sheep: The prefix ó means non- or not-, while kind is the word for sheep. In other words the Icelandic term for monster is literally non-sheep. Which makes sense. There are few if any animals which are less monstrous and less terrifying or scary than sheep: MEEE!
The story of the French travelers who sparked a large search for a polar bear on Melrakkaslétta peninsula in North Iceland has provided Icelanders with a welcome distraction from the endless rain and overcast skies. Making fun of France, Frenchmen as well as French customs and politics is, of course, an old and time honored European tradition.
After an extensive search by land and from air the Police in North East Iceland and the Icelandic coast guard failed to turn up any signs of a polar bear the French anglers admitted they had probably not seen a polar bear, but instead the scariest sheep ever.
Read more: Search for polar bear in North Iceland called off: could have been the scariest sheep ever
The best polar bear-scary sheep joke we at Iceland Insider have seen was created by local man Jón Már, who created the above Facebook meme of the terrifying non-sheep ókindin: In Icelandic ókind means monster, and can be used to refer both to mythical and real monsters. When Jaws was released in Icelandic cinemas its title was translated as ókindin. But translated literally ókind means non-sheep: The prefix ó means non- or not-, while kind is the word for sheep. In other words the Icelandic term for monster is literally non-sheep. Which makes sense. There are few if any animals which are less monstrous and less terrifying or scary than sheep: MEEE!
