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„Á HVERJU LIGGJA EKKI VORAR GÖFUGU KELLÍNGAR" 137
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dóttir o.fl. (Reykjavík, 1980), bls. 221-30.
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Torfhildur Þorsteinsdóttir Hólm. Þjóðsögur og sagnir, útg. Finnur Sigmundsson
(Reykjavík, 1962). [Inngangur Finns Sigmundssonar, bls. V-XXXI.]
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Summary
„What Aren't Our Dear Old Ladies Sitting On"
Halldór Laxness and Torfhildur Hólm
Halldór Laxness's íslandsklukkan (Iceland's Bell), a historical novel set
around the turn of the eighteenth century, begins with an account of the
Wanuscript collector Arnas Arnæus (Árni Magnússon) and his visit to a
poor farmstead where he discovers, under the mattress of an old woman's
^ed, some sheets from a priceless vellum manuscript that he has been
seeking for seven years. He smoothes out the shrivelled, almost indeci-
pherable sheets and makes off with the manuscript. In many ways this
story symbolizes the literary craft of Laxness, who frequently reworks
other texts, published and unpublished alike, elevating them to a higher
forrn of narrative art. In many of his works Laxness connects literature
With women, and he wrote his very first novel under the influence of the
Woman writer who originated the historical novel in Iceland, Torfhildur
Hólm.