Why I Built My Life Around Two Icelandic Words: þetta reddast What does petta reddast mean? Icelandic phrase Petta Reddast, pronounced (thet-ta re-dust) is an Icelandic phrase that literally translates from Icelandic to English as: þetta = “this” reddast = “to be rescued, fixed, resolved, or sorted out” I have spent over a decade trying to figure out how to cope with my trauma. Searching for something, anything, that I could cling to when I felt like I was drowning. There