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It’s an idiomatic suggestion, essentially How about…? / What if we…?
Literally it’s something like How would it be if…, but in everyday Icelandic it’s a common, polite way to propose an action: Hvernig væri að + clause.
Væri is the past subjunctive form of vera (to be). It’s used for a hypothetical/polite suggestion—similar to English How would it be if… or How about….
Using er would sound more like a straightforward present statement (How is it to…?), which isn’t the usual phrasing for this suggestion pattern.
Here að introduces the following clause (it works like that/if introducing a subordinate clause after this suggestion expression).
So the structure is basically: Hvernig væri (það) að … = How would it be (if) …