Icelandic horse

English

An Icelandic horse with a heavy coat that is well suited to the cold weather in Iceland / northern Scandinavia.

Noun

Icelandic horse (plural Icelandic horses)

1. A horse of a small, hardy breed developed from ponies taken to Iceland by Norse settlers in the 9th and 10th centuries.

Synonyms

• Icelandic

Translations

breed of horse

• Dutch: IJslandse pony m, IJslands paard n, IJslander (nl) m
• Finnish: islanninhevonen (fi)
• Georgian: ისლანდიური ცხენი (islandiuri cxeni)
• German: Islandpferd (de) n, Islandpony n, Isländer (de) m
• Icelandic: Íslenskur hestur m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: islandshest m

  Nynorsk: islandshest m

• Swedish: islandshäst (sv) c

Further reading

• Icelandic horse on Wikipedia.Wikipedia