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LEYNIST SKILDAHÚFA í EINKAEIGN í BRETLANDI?
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10 Ibid., bls. 72 og 76,91. tilvitnun.
11 John F.West (editor), TheJournals of the Stanley Expedition to the Faroe Islands and Iceland in
1789,1. Introduction and Diary ofjames Wright (Tórshavn, 1970); II. Diary of Isaac S. Benners
(Tórshavn, 1975); og III. Diary ofjohn Baine (Tórshavn, 1976). John F.West (útg.), íslands-
leiðangur Stanleys 1789. Ferðabók. Steindór Steindórsson þýddi ([Reykjavík], 1979).
12 West (1970), bls. 134 (27. ágúst):... After dinner [Stanley; innsk. höf. samkvæmt ísl. útg.: idem
(1979), bls. 161.] set off wt. Schuster to the Provosts at Havenefiord whose wife is procuring a
Female Dress for him - he intends likewise to call at Bessested for 2 dolls which the countess is
preparing -...; og idem (1970), bls. 135 (28. ágúst):... The Icelandic dress is come aboard, is
extremely rich & elegant, as indeed it ought having cost above 20 Guineas. Broum was dressed in it,
& cut a remarkable orang Autang-ish figure! Wright segir ennfremur í ibid., bls. 135-136 (29.
ágúst): The Rector had given Mr. S. several silver ornaments yesterday - which were wanting in the
dress, as presents -for which he received in return several articles from mr. S.
13 West (1975), bls. 144:... after Dinner Mr. Stanley went on shore to visit the Bishop of Haine-
fors.“... [Hér aftanmál 108, bls. 166; þar segir að Stanley hafi leiðrétt titilinn og skrifað
Provost of Gardar í staðinn.]
14 West (1976), bls. 189: We saw likewise the different articles of an Iceland Lady’s dress, sotne of it
really elegant and the whole together upon such a girl as the beautiful Miss Stevenson is as much so
as any dress whatever. I Itave no fault with any part of it except the higli crowned hat I know not
what name they give it, Its appearance is ludricious to a Stranger. It may notwithstanding be rec-
koned extremely handsome by the Icelanders... One of the boys was dressed in the Stile of an
Icelander.As I believe part of the dress had been Miss Stevenson’s, I had no desire to see any other
ape her,...
15 Loc. cit. ogWest (1979), bls. 135.
16 Andrew Wawn, ,John Thomas Stanley and Iceland: the Sense and Sensibility of an
Eighteenth-Century Explorer,“ Scandinavian Studies, 53 (1981), bls. 68, þar sem hann vitn-
ar í Jane H. Adeana, The Early Married Lfe of Maria Josepha Lady Stanley (London, 1899),
bls. 334-335. Höfundur þakkar Andrew Wawn fyrir að benda sér á ritgerð þessa og láta sér
í té eintak af henni.
17 Wawn (1981), bls. 67-68, þar sem hann vitnar í „Cheshire County Record Office MD
DSA 127/1.“
SUMMARY
Could it be that a third Skildahúfa is preserved privately in Britain?
In Arbók hins íslenzka fomleifafélags 1969 and again in 1971 [as well as in an article, „The
Icelandic Skildahúfa," Costume.TheJournal of the Costume Society, 16:9-22, 1982] the aut-
hor discussed two preserved skildahúfur (women’s caps decorated with silver disks), one in
the National Museum of Iceland in Reykjavík, the other in Nationalmuseet, the National
Museum ofDenmark in Copenhagen. AIso discussed in the above articles was a third cap
described in the travelogue, Ferðabók, by the Icelandic medical doctor and naturalist
Sveinn Pálsson (1762-1840); this cap was shown to him at the parsonage at Garðar on
Alftanes in 1791, but it has not been known what became of it after that time.
In Saga. Tímarit Sögufélags XXIII-1985, Andrew Wawn published letters, dated 1814-
1816, from an Icelandic woman, Guðrún Einarsdóttir Johnsen, to Lady Stanley, the wife
of John Thomas Stanley who travelled in Iceland in 1789. One of the letters, dated 29