Icelandic Literature Research Articles

The old testament in Icelandic life and literature

L'A. analyse l'influence de l'Ancien Testament sur la culture de la population islandaise. On constate un processus de reutilisation des recits vetero-testamentaires par la culture islandaise. Les exemples choisis par l'A. sont: l'hymne national islandais et le psaume 90; Levitique 18:6 et l'inceste en Islande; les fleuves de Babylone et l'emigration en Amerique du Nord; Isaie 7:14 et la Societe biblique anglaise et etrangere; la crise ecologique et Genese 1:28; le Livre des Proverbes comme arme dans les Cod Wars; Deborah et le president Finnbogadottir

Erica Simon

Erica Simon26/2 1910 - 11/2 1993William Michelsen writes a personal obituary about the French Grundtvig scholar Erica Simon. He first met Erica Simon in the middle of the fifties, when she was studying the Swedish folk high schools and wanted to meet all the Grundtvig scholars and people who put Grundtvig’s ideas into practice. Erica Simon was a university professor in Scandinavian languages and literature, but she also founded her own folk high scholl west of Lyons. Erica Simon’s interest in Grundtvig and her commitment to the Grundtvig’s ideal of .the school for life. was aroused in the mid-fifties, when she studied at Uppsala and met the Swedish folk high scholl Hvilan in Sk.ne. Erica Simon worked together especially with the Nordic folk high school in Kung.lv, and she wanted to spread the knowledge of Grundtvig’s ideas, not only in France, but all over the world. Like Grundtvig, Erica Simon wanted to find the roots of folk culture behind the influence from the Roman Empire, an influence which underlies the centralized school system dating back to Napoleonic France. Erica Simon’s main subject in her Grundtvig research was his ideas of the connection between folk enlightenment and science or scholarship. Science and folk culture are different matters but have to interact in order to establish a scholarship built on folk culture. In accordance with Grundtvig, Erica Simon stresses medieval Anglo-Saxon and Icelandic literature as the Nordic element in universal history, establishing a vernacular culture in opposition to the Latin school and scholarship. Erica Simon was a passionate scholar and interpreter of Grundtvigian ideas. She often visited Denmark and was on the Committe of Grundtvig-Selskabet, where she gave lectures, and she published papers in the Grundtvig-Studier in 1969 and 1973.Erica Simon was born i Königsberg on February 26th, 1910. She spent her youth in Hannover and afterwards studied language and literature in Geneva and in Paris. She married in 1936 and became a widow in 1942, but remarried, bearing the name Vollboudt. Jacques Kleiner, her son from her first marriage, today lives in Switserland. From 1939-54 she was a secondary school teacher in France, but in 1954 she began studying the Nordic folk high school, doing research in Uppsala in 1955-56. In 1962 she became a doctor at the Sorbonne University in Paris (Doctorat d.tat in 1962), with a dissertation about the Swedish folk high schools in the late 18th century.

P. M. JONASSON (Ed.): Ecology of eutrophic, subarctic Lake Mývatn and the River Laxá. — Published by the Icelandic Literature Societty ib Copenhagen, 1984, 308 S., zahlr. Abbildungen und Farbphotographien

Acta hydrochimica et hydrobiologicaVolume 13, Issue 4 p. 488-488 Buchbesprechung P. M. JONASSON (Ed.): Ecology of eutrophic, subarctic Lake Mývatn and the River Laxá. — Published by the Icelandic Literature Societty ib Copenhagen, 1984, 308 S., zahlr. Abbildungen und Farbphotographien V. Sládeček, V. SládečekSearch for more papers by this author V. Sládeček, V. SládečekSearch for more papers by this author First published: 1985 https://doi.org/10.1002/aheh.19850130412AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume13, Issue41985Pages 488-488 RelatedInformation

The Craftsman in the Mound

THE legendary figure of the dwarf hardly ever is the hero of the work of Old Icelandic literature in which he is encountered, but the fact that in texts of varied origin and form his features have retained their constancy shows him as clearly established and well defined a being of the universe transmitted by these texts. Appearing fleetingly in the poems of the Elder Edda, somewhat more markedly in the treatise of Snorri Sturluson (Prose Edda) and still more importantly in the heroic and romantic sagas (Fornaldar spgur and Riddara sogur) dwarfs live, invariably, far from men and gods and usually in earth and stone. They are gifted with great skills of craftsmanship and great wisdom and employ these talents to the inestimable benefit of those they serve.' I have investigated elsewhere (Friimittelalterliche Studien 1973, Arv 197374) the significance of the dwarfs' creativity; in this paper I shall deal with the nature of the dwelling places of the dwarfs and with their relation towards those of other races. Understanding legend and myth to be composed of many strands, those of universal human experience as well as those of local history, I have here attempted to relate the figure to a certain time and place and have availed myself in this task of the help of local history and of local lore. Let us now look to the contours of the dwarf.

Bibliography of Modern Icelandic Literature in Translation

Bibliography of Modern Icelandic Literature in Translation

Ein »rímnaflokkur« í føroyskari tungulist?

The dominant stanzaic forms of the Faroese popular songs in oral tradition are the ballad couplet and especially the ballad quatraine. The latter is thus the normal stanzaic meter of the Faroese heroic ballad which also shows a strong affinity regarding its style and its subject matter with Medieval ícelandic literature, i. e. Eddic lays and sagas. In Iceland the heroic ballad is, however, only sparsely represented. Here the rímur poetry which has developed other stanzaic forms combining end rhyme and metrical alliteration, has had a dominating position dating back to late Medieval time. Compared to the heroic ballad the rímur poetry shows much stronger ties regarding its form and content with such Medieval Icelandic literature as scaldic lays and sagas. Outside Iceland traces of Icelandic rímur poetry have only been found in the Faroe Islands where such a poem CCF 111 Koralds kvæði was first recorded as early as 1639. The aim of my paper is to demonstrate that another Faroese popular »heroic ballad«, i. e. CCF 112 Bevusar tattir, originally represents an else lost Icelandic set of rímur (rímnajlokkur) which is supposed to have entered Faroese tradition either through oral og MS transmission before the end of 16th century.

Fluorides as Air Pollutants Affecting Plants

/Pathological effects of fluoride have been known for nearly 1000 years when ancient disease of gaddur, or gaddjax was first described in early Icelandic literature. Later known in English as dental fluorosis of cattle, disease developed on domestic animals feeding on grass contaminated by ash deposited following volcanic eruptions (67). Fluoride has been recognized as injurious to plants only since 1883 when Schroeder & Reuss first reported damage to vegetation in Germany (75). Reports of damage in areas near superphosphate and glass factories followed shortly (42,66,89). Not until 1940s though, with tremendous expansion of alumi­ num and phosphate industries, was fluoride recognized as a threat to agri, culture and forestry in local areas of United States. Research during this period was stimulated by serious crop losses and injury to forests near major new phosphate, aluminum, and steel plants largely in Florida, Wash­ ington, and Utab. Fluoride is a natural component of earth's ernst, with concentrations in soils commonly exceeding 0.05% and occasionally 1 %. Plants normally accumulate small amounts of this fluoride; on rare occasions, toxic concen­ trations may be absorbed from acid soils, but polluted atmospheres provide main source of .fluoride accumulated by plants. Fluoride is released whenever clays, rocks, coal, or ores containing it are heated, or when fluoride is used as a flux and allowed to escape into atmosphere. Fluorides are well recognized as air pollutants, and their harmful effects on plants have received considerable attention in past two decades. Their role in plant disease , and concept of air pollutants as disease inci­ tants dates back nearly a hundred years (70) and was fully described by Darley & Middleton in 1966 (19). Their statement that the increasing im­ portance of air pollution injury to vegetation as a factor in agricultural pro­ duction emphasizes need for plant pathologists to become more aware of pollution-incite d diseases is still timely and is certainly true for fluorides.

The Uglier Foot (At 1559 B*). An Anecdote in Old Icelandic Literature and Its Counterpart in Irish Folk-Tradition

The Uglier Foot (At 1559 B*). An Anecdote in Old Icelandic Literature and Its Counterpart in Irish Folk-Tradition

Patterns in Old English and Old Icelandic Literature

Patterns in Old English and Old Icelandic Literature

Patterns in Old English and Old Icelandic Literature. A[ri] C. Bouman

Previous articleNext article No AccessBook ReviewsPatterns in Old English and Old Icelandic Literature. A[ri] C. BoumanA. Margaret ArentA. Margaret Arent Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Modern Philology Volume 62, Number 2Nov., 1964 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/389670 Copyright 1964 The University of ChicagoPDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

Patterns in Old English and Old Icelandic Literature. A. C. Bouman

<i>Patterns in Old English and Old Icelandic Literature</i>. A. C. Bouman

A History of Icelandic Literature.

A History of Icelandic Literature.

A History of Icelandic Literature. Stefán Einarsson

<i>A History of Icelandic Literature.</i> Stefán Einarsson

A History of Icelandic Literature. Stefán Einarsson

<i>A History of Icelandic Literature</i>. Stefán Einarsson

A History of Icelandic Literature. Stefán Einarsson

Previous articleNext article No AccessBook ReviewsA History of Icelandic Literature. Stefán Einarsson Gösta FranzenGösta Franzen Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Modern Philology Volume 56, Number 1Aug., 1958 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/389243 Copyright 1958 The University of ChicagoPDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

A History of Icelandic Literature

A History of Icelandic Literature

Origins of Icelandic Literature

Origins of Icelandic Literature

Origins of Icelandic Literature

Origins of Icelandic Literature

Hexameter in Icelandic Literature

Hexameter in Icelandic Literature

Jóhann Sigurjónsson's Fjalla-Eyvindur: Source, Chronology, and Geography

That Jóhann Sigurjónsson's Fjalla-Eyvindur (“Eyvindur of the Mountains”) is “one of the most powerful of modern dramas” and a great classic of modern Icelandic literature is scarcely open to question. In the face of what appears to have been an inadequate performance, an anonymous American critic wrote nearly a quarter of a century ago that the play had “something akin to Synge in the poetry of its naturalism, and something akin to Wagner in the huge scale of its simplified plot.” It has enjoyed popular success on the stage of Iceland, continental Scandinavia, and Germany; it has served as the subject of what one is given to understand was an exceptionally beautiful and impressive Swedish silent film. The play has been relatively neglected in the English-speaking world; whether it is “too stark, relentless and cold to have a popular success in the commercial theater of Broadway” is an interesting matter of speculation. In any event, this heroic pastoral tragedy, cherished classic of Icelanders, ranks high among examples of twentieth-century dramatic art and is a work worthy of much study and reflection.