Árdís - 01.01.1954, Side 20

Árdís - 01.01.1954, Side 20
18 ÁRDÍS Outline of My Life My father, Svb. Sveinbjornsson, was an Icelander, a composer and teacher of music and my mother, Eleanor (née Christie) is Scottish. Both of my grandfathers practised law, my paternal grandfather being at one time the Chief Justice of Iceland and my mother’s father, an M.A. of Aberdeen University, being a solicitor in Banff in the north of Scotland. I was born on December 3, 1892, at No. 15 Dick Place, the Grange, Edinburgh, Scotland. While I was still an infant my parents moved to No. 46 on the same street and my earliest recollections are circled round this solid stone house with its spacious rooms and front windows which overlooked a fine view of Blackford Hill. There my brother and I lived a happy and sheltered childhood with our good and kind parents. I have very far back memories of hearing my father playing on the piano and singing in his deep bass voice; in our house classical music was daily bread and was accepted as such, but was nevertheless greatly appreciated. Many music-loving visitors came to the house and often I remember falling asleep at night with the sound of music in my ears. During all my youth many Icelandic people came to visit us and I have deep-rooted memories of the Icelandic language being spoken between these visitors and my father. The sound of the language is so familiar to me that it is a very great pleasure to hear it spoken even though I am not able to understand what is being said. I have early and happy recollections of my cousins Gudmundur, Asta and Jon Sveinbjornsson, Christjana Trampe and also Landshofdingja Magnus Stephensen’s daughters. At six years of age I attended Strathearn College which was situated not far from where we lived and I always took a great interest in school work. About that time I commenced to write little stories which, in the beginning, were quite matter-of-fact, the first being called “The Bad Old Woman” and the second “The Good Young Man”. These were followed by a tale called “The Magic Potato” which was a fairy tale, and, at the age of seven, I wrote, in an exercise book which I still have, a few fairy tales and short
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