Lögberg-Heimskringla - 18.03.1976, Blaðsíða 3

LÖGBERG-HEIMSKRINGLA, FIMMTUDAGINN 18. MARS 1976
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have been explained to him, and from that produce a re-creation of the
original in his own terms and his own form. These two are extremes and
they do not exhaust the possibilities, but what is really important is that
they, the translators, are themselves poets — and by poets I do not mean
versifiers.
If poet-creator and poet-translator can meet, as with George Johnston
and his authors, we may expect the best results. Where this is not possible,
then the pedant-professor may have to take the place of the poet-creator —
he can explain what the words say and how the poem is built up and what
its circumstances were — but he should on no account be asked to play
the part of the poet-translator. That means that the Icelandic Department
in the University of Manitoba ought to have a Resident Poet. Such an
appointment would be an act of faith. But so was the foundation of the
Department and so in a sense are all our academic efforts. We try to pass
on to the next generation the values we have inherited, the experience
we have acquired, the reward we have known. And we trust our students
will go out to be a leaven in the doughy mass, to help it rise a little higher
— we can’t hope much more. But in my time as a university teacher I
have seen encouraging signs that our acts of faith in Icelandic studies and
in Scandinavian studies generally are not ill-founded.
When I first came to London 25 years ago I was introduced to a
colleague’s wife as the man who knew more about Icelandic sagas than
anyone else in that great city. Being young and foolish, I modestly de-
murred; at which this rather older and much wiser lady put everything,
and me, in place by murmuring that she supposed it was perhaps not a
very difficult thing to be. If it were to come up again now, I could honestly
say that in fact it did mean something, and that in London there would
be keen competition for such a distinction among a goodly number of
graduate students — some of them Icelandic — and among university
teachers. Student numbers and student interest point the same way. When
I beoame professor in 1963 our Department of Scandinavian studies had a
staff of four and 12 honours students; we taught only Danish, Norwegian,
Swedish and Old Icelandic. Now we have 10 teachers and 60 students, and
the courses have been extended to include Modern Icelandic and Faroese,
Viking Age archaeology and modern Nordic history. The creation and
spread of senior posts tell the same story — in Australia and New Zealand
as well as in Canada and the United States and the United Kingdom —
and whereas 30 years ago it was the exception for scholars interested in
Eddukvæði and íslendingasögur, to have a working knowledge of the living
language of today, I should say that now it is the rule for us to speak
Icelandic and to maintain close personal links with our Icelandic colleagues.
Post-reformation Icelandic literature is still not well enough known among
us, but there is no doubt that the philological and critical talent capable
of contributing towards the making of new translations of Icelandic litera-
ture is widely available in the English-speaking world. It is the poets
we need.
All of us who work in centres of Icelandic study abroad look with the
keenest interest to the development of Canadian “multi-cultural” policies.
We wish Canadian-Icelanders every success in overcoming the problems
which undeniably exist and which have been made plain to us by other
speakers. I for my part am confident that the challenge will be trium-
phantly met, and that the community here will be in the van of the
progress yet to be made in securing for the best Icelandic literature its
due appreciation in the English-speaking world.
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Lil vegnaði vel. Yngri syst
ir hennar, Herdís gekk í fé-
lag með henni og þær hafa
unnið saman í 36 ár í snotru
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byggð í grennd við Church-
bridge, Sask., nam þar land
og bjó þar til 1893, síðan eitt
ár vestan við Yorkton, Sask.,
en fluttist til Vestfold, Man.
1893. Móðir Lillian fluttist
vestur með foreldrum sínum
1894.
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Snorri ólafsson
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