Tímarit Þjóðræknisfélags Íslendinga - 01.01.1946, Page 156

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TÍMARIT ÞJÓÐRÆKNISFÉLAGS ÍSLENDINGA
New York, February 16, 1946
Professor Richard Beek, President
The Icelandic League of America,
University Station,
Grand Forks, North Dakota.
Dear Professor Beck:
Will you please convey to The Iee-
landic National League of America the
profound gratitude of The American-
Scandinavian Foundation for the kind-
ness and intelligent consideration of
the League during the past years, and
their sympathetic understanding that
the Foundation includes all the intel-
lectual contribution of Iceland, past and
present, in its program and aspiration.
You will find the art and literature of
Iceland represented in every issue of
The American-Scandinavian Review, and
this year we ardently hope to be able
to send an American Fellow to Iceland
for research during the academic year
1946-1947.
Sincerely yours,
Henry G. Leach
Sydney, Australia, 22nd Jan. 1946
Professor Riehard Beck,
University Station,
Grand Forks, N. D., U. S. A.
My dear Professor Beck:
Very many thanks for your kind letter
just received. I am looking forward to
the arrival of your article describing your
visit to Iceland last year. Will you give
the following message to the Annual
Conference of the Icelandic National
League in Winnipeg?:
“I am very grateful to Professor Beck
for giving me an opportunity of sending
a message to my fellow members of the
Icelandic National League of America
The days in which we are living are not
merely days of immense historical im
portance to the world as a Whole, but
have also introduced a new era into the
history of the Icelandic people. After a
period of between six and seven hundred
years, during which Iceland has beer.
subject to foreign governments, and dur-
ing which it has passed through tra-
gedies in the national life of its people,
Iceland is again a Sovereign Republic.
It is perhaps permissible to believe that
the joy of living Icelanders is shared by
the spirits of those who founded the Al-
thing, and of those who watched over
its constitutional growth, such as the
great hero of the Njall Saga. I neefi
hardly say how eagerly I hope that the
Ieclandic people in the future will reach
even greater heights of moral and men-
tal achievement than they have attained
in the storied past.’’
With all kind regards,
I remain,
Yours very sincerely,
C. Venn Pilcher
Dr. Richard Beck, forseti
Þjóðræknisfélags Islendinga.
Kæri vinur:
Ber þú þjóðræknisfélags mönnum
kveðjur mínar með innilegum þökkun'.
fyrir síðast og hugheilum óskum uni
farsæld á komandi ári. Og viltu
þeim þessa stöku eftir G. Fr.:
Gísla fylgsni í Geirþjófsfirði
geymir ennþá dýran málm.
Gersemum frá aldaöðli
út er fleygt í mosa og hálm.
Heldur skyldi af Héðni moka
hrundum stafni en kveða sálm,
Gun-narshaug til gripa brjóta,
Gjalli ofan af Njáli róta.
Þinn,
Stefán Einarsson
Grafton, N. D„ 25th Feb. l94b
Dr. Richard Beck, President
Icelandic National League,
I.O.G.T. Hall, Winnipeg .
Greetings to convention. Congra
t- Wishe>
tions on good work done and besi ^
for future. Asmundur Jóhannson
report Erickson matter. Regards-
G. Grimsoh