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They weren't joking as some Icelanders tend to believe, they did this in a sincere mind, but this kind of ultrapurism wasn't accepted.
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The second principle in High Icelandic is called málgjörhreinsun' ultrapurism, which implies the replacement of all borrowings from whatever language, even those occuring in the oldest writings.
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