Iceland 1930

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Identifikator:: 1830571079

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-221162

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Iceland 1930

Edition:: 2. ed.

Place of publication:: Reykjavík

Publisher:: Ríkisprentsmiđjan Gutenberg

Year of publication:: 1930

Scope:: 193 S.; Tab., Kt., Taf.

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Education

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131 are now under the control of a central authority, The Icelandic Sport- ing Union (/préttasamband Islands), founded in 1912. BOOKS, NEWSPAPERS, AND PERIODICALS The art of printing reached Iceland about 1530, when Jén Arason (the last catholic bishop in Iceland) had a press established at Hélar, where the Breviarium Nidarosiense was printed in 1534. The press was not, however, much used till some time after the Reformation, and up to the middle of the nineteenth century there was, as a rule, only one press in the country; but since that time their number has been gradually increasing, and at present there are several presses both in the capital and in some of the other towns. In a country with about 106 000 inhabitants, book production can hardly be expected to be a very lucrative trade; vet there are not a few publishers in Iceland, and the annual number of books is- sued on various subjects is quite large when compared with the num- ber of population. The first Icelandic newspaper appeared about the middle of last century; it was a fortnightly, but was soon changed to a weekly. The first daily paper, started in 1896, was soon discontinued, but another began to appear in 1911 and is still published. The majority of Icelandic newspapers represent different shades of political opinion, and can therefore be grouped according to political parties.”) Papers supporting the Independent party are: Morgunbladid and Visir (dailies), fsafold og Vordur and Stormur (weeklies), all pub- lished in Reykjavik; Islendingur (a weekly, Akureyri); Vesturland (a weekly, Isafisrour); Hanir (a weekly, Seydisfjordur); Siglfirdingur (a weekly, Siglufiérdur); Vidir (a weekly, Vestmannaeyjar). Progressive or agrarian papers are: Timinn and Ingélfur (weeklies, Reykjavik); Dagur (a weekly, Akureyri). Labour or socialist papers are: Althydu- bladid (a daily with a weekly edition, Reykjavik); Verkamadurinn (a weekly, Akureyri); Skutull (a weekly, [safjsrdur); Mjslnir (a weekly, SiglufjorBur); Vikan (a weekly, Vestmannaeyjar); and Jafnadarmadur- inn (a fortnightly, Nes). Légrétta (a weekly, Reykjavik); and Briin (a weekly, HafnarfisrOur) do not belong to any of the political parties. *) At present the party distribution (in Althingi) is as follows: the progressive or agrarian party 20 members, the independent party (an amalgamation of moderate con- servatives and liberals) 17, and the socialist or labour party 5.

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