Lögberg-Heimskringla - 23.07.1964, Síða 23

LÖGBERG-HEIMSKRINGLA, FIMMTUDAGINN 23. JÚLl 1964
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“Sixty year ago Lord
Dufferin remarked on the
devotion which you retained
for your Icelandic culture. It
is a very great culture, and
it contains same of the noblest
literature ever produced by
mortal men. Far up in that
lonely Iceland, girt by stormy
seas, you developed a mode
of life which, for simple
hardihood and manly inde-
pendence, has not often been
paralleled in history. And
you have produced great
literature. For myslf I put
the Icelandic Sagas among the
chief works of the human
genius.
“There are two elements in
your tradition, as reflected in
the Sagas, on which I should
like to say one word, for I
hope that their spirit will
never be forgotten. One is the
belief in the reign of law.
Everywhere in the Sagas you
find that insisted upon. The
old Icelanders were not only
great warriors and adven-
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turers, but they were acute
lawyers and mighty jurists
. . . The second element in the
Saga tradition is still greater.
As I see it, it is the belief that
truth and righteousness must
be follewed for their own
sake, quite independent of any
material rewards . . . It was
the creed of Christianity. It
is the only creed which can
put salt and iron and vigour
into human life . . .”
Now, when it is almost too
late, we in Canada and the
United States are beginning
to appreciate the value and
necessity of learning or re-
learning a second or third
language. This rests not only
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upon the cultural value of a
study of another language.
The speed of travel and com-
municationa has forced us to
realize that events in other
lands may seriously affect
our lives and the lives of our
children. We speak of the
current ideologies separating
people but basisally
the separation is one
of language and culture.
Our educators now urge us to
learn another language so that
we can understand, com-
municate and trade with our
world neigbours. I am sure
that our universities will some
day realize that it is not
so necessary for all engineers,
lawyers or doctors to learn
French or German so that
one in a thousand might
perchance read scientific
articles in these languages,
as it is important that the
universities provide a wide
selection of languages based
on a student’s free choice.
New Horizons
Now, ninety years after
joining Confederation, Mani-
toba has been enlarged and
transformed from a predom-
inantly Scottish, French and
Metis settlement of farmers
and fur-traders to its present
size and development. Winni-
peg is now a most cosmopoli-
tan city. Every European
nationality and others are re-
presented among its citizens.
One has only to be present at
the Musical Festival, held in
Winnipeg every year, or to at-
tend performances of the
Winnipeg Symphony
Orchestra or the Royal Winni-
peg Ballet or the Manitoba
Theatre Centre to realize that,
both on the stage and in the
audience, the cultural life of
Winnipeg and of Manitoba is
being developed and sup-
ported by individuals of many
nationalities. The University
of Manitoba represents on its
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ON THE 75th ANNIVERSARY OF THE
ICELANDIC NATIONAL CELEBRATION