Nancy Marie Brown in Song of the Vikings says that
Viking women
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Bling
Laxness warned you. Did you read Independent People? Did you make an effort to understand it? Did you realize that unless you are one of the 1%, you are Bjartur of Summerhouses. You don
Book review: The Rockey Mountain Poet
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The Wages of War
I was born the year the war started. My mother told me once that she
Let Us Remember
My mother
Brown: Song of the Vikings
I love books. I don
Stephan G honored in Iceland
On May 30th, 1917, Stephan G began his trip to Iceland. First from New York to Halifax and from there to Iceland. On board the Gullfoss, everyone treated him kindly and with respect. In Canada, there were some who had tried to have him charged with treason and put in prison because he disagreed with them about the slaughter in Europe. They saw glory in it. He saw nothing but tragedy and wasted lives. On the Gullfoss, people only wanted to honour him.
Of course, one has to remember that the attitude of people in Iceland, a country that was a non-combatant, was different from that in Canada which, as a colony of England, had soldiers at the battlefront. In Canada, some Icelanders hoped that the participation of young Icelandic men in the war would help Icelandic immigrants gain an honorable place in Canadian society.
However, Laxness describes in the section of Independent People called
Stress test
I had a stress test today.
I thought they were going to get me into a
Tom Koppel: Mystery Islands
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Publishing Stephan G
In pages 347 to 361 of Wakeful Nights, the biography of Stephan G. Stephansson, there is a description of everything that took place to get his poetry published in book form. It seems both sad and appropriate that I should be reading these pages as news has come that Douglas&McIntyre, Canada
