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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42 strained imagination; extensively read, witty, and profoundly influenced by foreign romanticists. But though much of what he wrote is second- rate, there are not a few passages full of poetic fire, and some of his 'vrics are among the most finished in the language. Pall Olafsson (1827—1905) a farmer. Of our peasant bards he is the greatest artist in rime. His touch is light, lyrical; but he can also be witty and at times bitter. Many of his improvisations were caught up by the people as soon as they came from the author’s lips, and spread far and wide over the country. Steingrimur Thorsteinsson (1831--1913), some time head-master of the Grammar School in Reykjavik, a classical scholar and a man of learning and culture, is the author of many beautiful and touching patriotic songs. He has given us noble pictures of Icelandic scenery and rural life, poems on the philosophy of life, and a number of epi- grams. He has also translated many foreign works, e. g. the Arabian Nights, Andersen’s Fairy Tales, Shakespeare’s King Lear, Byron's Mazeppa, The Prisoner of Chillon and many of his shorter poems, Sesides a variety of lyrical pieces by different other authors. The Rev. Matthias Jochumsson 1835 —1920 , Iceland's greatest poet for half a century, lived for the last twenty years of his life on a literary pension granted him by Althingi. He was honorary citizen of Ak- ureyri (where he lived) and D. D. honoris causa at the university of Reykjavik. Jochumsson is a voluminous writer of poetry, and ‘hough it is not all equally good, his genius when at its best is truly wonderful and prophetic. His funeral poems are the greatest in our language, and by his profound understanding of our history and his rare gift of sympathy he can embrace and re-creale the most diverse characters. To our religious poetry he has also contributed some of its noblest and loftiest hymns. At his magical touch all distinction be- fween the centuries .disappears, and he is in an equal degree Iceland's most ancient and most modern poet. Of his many translations these may be mentioned: four plays by Shakespeare, Byron’s Manfred, Tegner’s Fridthjofs Saga, Ibsen's Brand, and a great number of short soems by different authors, English, German and Scandinavian. Stephan G. Stephansson (1853—1927) is among the most peculiar phenomena in Icelandic literature. The son of a poor farmer and brought up on a remote farm in Iceland, he never went to school, and, when about twenty years of age, emigrated to America, where he three limes took land for cultivation and always lived the strenuous life of he settler. Yet his native culture stood him in such good stead

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