The Indian

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A lot of people will undoubtedly wonder whether this is a biography or a novel. It’s both. It isn’t totally true, although there aren’t any total lies in it either. I don’t believe in lies. In fact I think lies are the greatest obstacle on our path towards spiritual development. But I shift quite a few things around. I write from memory. There are some things I have absolutely no recollection of myself, so I’ve had to rely on other people’s memories. But all memory is fiction. Our brain is the greatest master of deceit in the universe.

The Icelandic alphabet is largely based on the Latin alphabet (as is English) but it includes ten extra letters, some of which derive from the runic tradition.

In addition to accented letters such as ó, í, and ý Icelandic also includes the letters ð and þ, known as “eth” and “thorn” respectively. They have slightly different pronunciations: ð, which comes between d and e in the Icelandic alphabet, is pronounced like the “th” in the English “that”; þ, which comes after y and ý, the antepenultimate letter of the alphabet, is pronounced like the “th” in English “thing.” (The former, ð, is known as a “voiced fricative” whereas the latter, þ, is an “unvoiced fricative.”)

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