I was going to add that when my father, from Fife on the east coast to Scotland, went to Iceland he was very interested to find out that he could understand many of the place names.

He didn't speak a different language, but had quite a strong accent and also quite a lot of different words. [edit to clarify compared to me born & bred in England]

The main example he used was Kirkjubæjarklaustur which translates as "church farm cloister".

However looking it up this morning adds more depth to the history of the language.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirkjub%C3%A6jarklaustur#

> Even before the time of the first Norse settlement in Iceland, Irish monks are thought to have lived here. Since 1186, a well known convent of Benedictine nuns, Kirkjubæjar Abbey, was located in Kirkjubæjarklaustur, until the Reformation in 1550.