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8-WINNIPEG, FÖSTUDAGUR 5. FEBRÚAR 1982
An Interview
The world of Guðbergur Bergsson
Continued from page 4
consequence the Socialist Party
head told me that I could get to East
Germany; but in the end I didn't
want to. Instead I left Iceland for
Spain in October. The boat first
went to Scotland, to Leith, and from
there I took the train to London. I
had never been abroad before and
that made it very difficult for me —
that was back in '56. I booked a
plane from London to Barcelona,
but when I arrived at the airport I
had excess luggage and I didn't have
any money.
E.S.F.: So what did you do?
G.B.: I just talked to them. They
froze me with their looks but I said,
"What am I going to do? I can't go to
Editoriai
The editorial is addresséd to
subscribers in Iceland. Every week
several hundred copies are sent to
Iceland, costing the paper a fortune.
Yet, subscription fees have not been
paid in full although bills were sent
to Iceland more than six months
ago. It is beyond our means to keep
on sending the paper tö those in
Iceland who have not paid. It is
therefore our decision that by the
end of February the paper will only
be sent to those who have paid. The
lack of interest in the paper in
Iceland is difficult to understand.
Lögberg-Heimskringla has, for
almost one hundred years, publish-
ed news regarding people of
Icelandic descent in North America.
It tells, in many ways, the story of
the Icelanders in the New World.
Icclandic farmers visit Canada
for the second time
A large group of Icelandic farmers
is expected in Calgary, Alberta
in early August. Many of this
year's participants came with the
group in 1975. We understand that
the farmers will spend some time in
Alberta before heading west to Van-
couver. A few days will be spent
touring the west coast before
travelling south to Seattle
Icelanders film in the States
Icelandic filmmakers spent
several weeks in November of last
year filming in New York and Min-
neapolis. Valdimar Leifsson and
Haraldur Friðriksson came to New
York in early November and filmed
Helgi Tómasson, the famous ballet
dancer. Helgi Tómasson has been
with the New York City Ballet for
quite some time and is well known
all over the world. The film
(documentary) which deals with
Helgi's work will be 45 minutes
long and is near completion.
In Minneapolis, the two
Icelanders visited Valdimar
Björnsson and came away with
enough material for another
a hotel; I haven't got any money."
And they let me through.
E.S.F.: With your luggage?
G.B.:_Oh, yes. But, in the plane, I
remembered that I didn't have any
money and I thought one would
have to pay for the food, so I didn't
dare to eat anything. And then I
came to Barcelona, with no money.
But I soon knew where the castle
was — and this is one of the strange
things in my life: usually when I
come to a city and I know nobody
and I don't know the city, I walk
around and find the well-known
tourist places at once. So, too, with
Barcelona. Whereas if I use my con-
scious mind I can't find those places
at all. And then I talked with so-
documentary. Mr. Björnsson hardly
needs any introduction in Lögberg-
Heimskringla. He is one of its
greatest supporters and contributes
regularly.
Both these films are of great in-
terest and will hopefully be made
available to the Icelandic clubs in
North America and other organiza-
tions.
meone at the Consulate and after
that everything was okay.
E.S.F.: What did you do?
G.B.: I did have a cheque and so I
went to a bank with it, but I had no
currency, no ready cash. Then I
went to the University, something I
found very difficult to begin again.
In Iceland I had gone to Teacher
Training College.
E.S.F.: And you finished a degree
there?
G.B.: Yes. For teaching children
up to High School.
E.S.F.: So you had to start all over
in a completely new language?
G.B.: And in a completely new
world, a new culture.
E.S.F.:Did you actually attend the
University?
G.B.: I couldn't, I was more or
less bumming around and in this
process you find a number of
English-speaking people, especially
people who have been to America.
Most Americans are descendants of
poor people who left bourgeois and
militaristic Europe. If you stay with
them for more than an hour you
find that they're all more or less the
same.
E.S.F.: You mean Americans are
all the same?
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G.B.: Yes, they are rather similar.
I find them rather similar. You
know, here in Iceland the only
foreign culturq we know is the
culture of the American soldiers
and, more recently, the culture that
ypu find on the beaches of Spain.
E.S.F.: Or in the movies.
G.B.: Yes, in the movies, too, but
I mean the only culture you come in
direct contact with is the culture of
the American soldiers.
E.S.F.: But here you hardly ever
meet American soldiers.
G.B.: But during the war we did.
I'm talking about myself. Now of
course it's quite different. In the
war there were soldiers all over the
place — they outnumbered the
Icelanders, I think.
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