“Your mother is waiting outside Hagkaup”
Translated from Icelandic and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.
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- A humorous exchange was heard during a live broadcast of a Reykjavík city council meeting after a break.
- A woman asked whether everyone had been called at Kringlan, and a male voice apparently resembling Independence Party councilor Bjarni Fritzson replied that Rúnar Freyr’s mother was waiting outside Hagkaup.
- The conversation appears not to have been intended for the live broadcast.
A city council livestream captured an apparently private joke during a Reykjavík council meeting on Tuesday.
Just before discussions resumed after a break, while the broadcast still showed a holding screen, a woman’s voice asked: “Hello. Were they all called at Kringlan or something?”
Hello. Were they all called at Kringlan or something?
A male voice that sounded very much like Independence Party councilor Bjarni Fritzson then said: “Rúnar Freyr, Rúnar Freyr. Your mother is standing outside Hagkaup and waiting for you.” He laughed, along with others, and the man who was probably Fritzson added that it was “a pretty good point.”
The exchange was apparently not meant to reach the live broadcast. The article leaves its meaning unexplained and publishes the audio separately.
Rúnar Freyr, Rúnar Freyr. Your mother is standing outside Hagkaup and waiting for you.
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Originally published by Morgunblaðið in Icelandic. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.
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