Icelandic translation services

Icelandic translation is priced per word for text and per minute for audiovisual, depending on volume, subject matter and turnaround, with agreeing the term list included as part of the brief rather than billed as an extra step. Send your files and we will come back with a free, itemised quote, backed by our Price Match Promise.

Yes. Native Icelandic linguists handle every translation, and a second native linguist independently reviews each text, checking that the agreed Icelandic terms are used consistently and that no English loans have slipped back in where an Icelandic word was chosen.

Yes — Icelandic translation, subtitling and voice over all come from one team, working to a single glossary throughout, so a term chosen for the script is the same one the subtitles show and the voice actor reads.

Because Icelandic usually has its own word, and readers expect it. Icelandic has a long practice of forming new words from native roots — *tölva*, *hugbúnaður* — and the national language policy sets out to keep it possible to write about anything in Icelandic. An English term where an established Icelandic one exists reads as careless.

Then it is a decision, and we make it with you. We check the Árni Magnússon Institute's term bank and current usage, and propose the Icelandic term, the Icelandic term with the English in brackets at first use, or the English term where that is genuinely what your audience uses. Whatever is chosen goes into the glossary.

Yes — audiovisual is our specialisation. We deliver spotted SRT/VTT and timed two-column voice-over scripts, plus translated text when you need it.

Product names usually do, and that is a normal decision to record in the glossary. Descriptive feature names are different: if a feature is described rather than named, it normally gets an Icelandic wording. Advertising aimed at Icelandic consumers is required to be in Icelandic, which matters for taglines and claims.

Yes. Icelandic is the national and official language by law, the national language policy is explicit about keeping it in use in every field, and consumer advertising has to be in Icelandic. Material in Icelandic reaches the whole audience in the language it expects to be addressed in.

Most short documents are delivered within 24 to 48 hours. Word count, subject complexity and turnaround all move the date, and your project manager will confirm the timeline at the start.

Less than people expect: the document, script or subtitle file, its word count, what the text is actually for, and the date you need it by. A draft is fine — we would rather quote on what exists than wait for a final version that eats your deadline. A named project manager comes back with an itemised quote, normally within four working hours.

More than half of enquiries get a reply within thirty minutes during office hours (Monday to Friday, 9am to 6pm UK time), and the itemised quote normally follows within four working hours. After that you have one dedicated project manager who owns the job from brief to final file — not a ticket queue, and not a different name on every email. If it is easier, call +44 207 095 5730 and ask for them by name.

Yes, and it is one of the commonest reasons people get in touch. Tell us it is for a pitch and you get a figure you can put in front of your own client, itemised so it stands up to being picked apart, with no obligation and no follow-up sales calls if the pitch goes elsewhere. If it lands, the quote still holds and we already know the project.