Ritmennt - 01.01.1998, Page 165

RITMENNT
ABSTRACTS
beetle with the little finger of the left hand
atones for seven sins"). The work is on two glass
plates of 145x160.5 cm. It was sandblasted,
painted and gilded. Instructions for cutting sug-
gested "when in doubt, exaggerate".
Sópuður. Ritmennt 3 (1998), pp. 140-56.
A miscellany containing brief accounts of the
Jónas Hallgrímsson website (by Einar Sigurðs-
son; pp. 140-42), an exhibition held to commem-
orate the 90th anniversary of the birth of the
late Dr. Haraldur Sigurðsson (by Jökull Sævars-
son; pp. 142-43), a conference held in Lithuania
in 1997 to commemorate the printing of the first
book in Lithuanian in 1547 (by Steingrímur Jóns-
son; pp. 144-46), the discovery of the possible
identity of a hitherto unknown patron of the
Reverend Jón Þorlálcsson, the poet (by Örn
Hrafnkelsson; pp. 146-48), an autographed copy
of Söngvai förumannsins by Stefán frá Hvítadal
recently donated to the National and University
Library (by Eiríkur Jónsson; pp. 148-49), the
Journal of an Expedition to the Feroe and West-
man Islands and Iceland, Volume Two, 1833, a
manuscript by George Clayton Atkinson recent-
ly acquired by the National and University Li-
brary (by Þorleifur Jónsson,- pp. 149-54), and
Gabriel, the World Wide Web server for Europe's
National Libraries represented in the Conference
of European National Librarians, CENL (by Þor-
leifur Jónsson; pp. 154-56).
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