65° - 01.11.1969, Page 5

Dear Editor.
The enclosed covers an airmail subscription to
65°. How can you do it so effectively and attrac-
tively? Page the lovely lady on your August
cover with a Yale blue cover background! Your
Periscope and your Observing are interesting,
your articles enlightening. I note that even a
psychiatrist can “write a book” after a 3 week
visit to your wonderfully hospitable land where
even tips are refused by lovely waitresses. Good
luck.
DR. IRA HISCOCK, New Haven, Conn. U.S.A.
Dear Mrs. Lindal:
Last month while browsing through a book-
store in Akureyri, I came across 65°. I found it
so fascinating that I wish to send in a subscrip-
tion to begin with no. 7. (The issue I found so
interesting was issue no. 6, May, 1969).
Than, too, I would like to take this opportunity
to express my thanks for your excellent book,
Ripples from Iceland which I read several years
ago and still have in my library at home. In fact,
it has been read by several dozen people, I believe.
As for myself, I can call Iceland “home”
because I have been there three times, the latest
only this summer. (Even with all the rain, it was
good to be back in Iceland again). My longest
stay in Iceland, however, was several years ago
When I was a teacher at the Naval Station in
Keflavik. I remained at the “base” only during
the week. Every weekend, with few exceptions, I
was in Reykjavik.
Eg get sagt aft Island er heim fyrir mig, Jivi aft
eg var svo heppinn aft vera eitt ar a Islandi. A-
samt er moftir min fasdd a Islandi, ]io var hun
afteins 5 ara gomul j)egar hun for fra Islandi.
Lika var eg svo heppinn aft eiga bmmu, sem tal-
afti afteins islenzku vift mig j)egar eg var hja
henni i Canada.
Please let me know if the first issues (1—5)
are available and how much these back issues
would cost. I would like to own 65° from the
first issue.
Indolently, I read a very fine review of 65° in
The Icelandic Canadian by Judge Walter J. Lin-
dal. (Is he any relation to your husband) ?
GEORGE HANSEN, Chicago, U.S.A.
Ed. Yes, by one of those tortuous Icelandic
relationships: Walter’s father was uncle to Bald-
ur’s father.
Dear Mrs. Lindal.
I just came back from an absolutely too short
week in Iceland. Before going I read your book.
— Have you written more than one? — and had
wondered how you were doing now; then one day
before leaving I bought the May issue of 65° and
lo and behold there you were, and doing greatly,
to say the least. Selfishly, I’m not telling anybody
how much I liked Iceland; beside^ it might be
difficult for most people to understand the still-
ness, solitude and peace I found there. Much to
my surprise, everybody I asked how to say
“solitude” gave me a puzzled look and no Ice-
landic word. Finally two words came up: einfari
and einvera which makes me wonder which is
what? But as happiness needs sharing and you
are the only Icelandic I feel I know, semehow, I
have to tell you how much I enj oyed my stay there
and that I hope to get back next summer for a
longer time. In the meantime I hope things go
well in Iceland so that it won’t need swarms of
tourists that might spoil its beauty.
Sincerely, (name withheld on request).
Dear Editor.
In your interesting article “A Case in Point”
which appeared in the May issue of 65°, it was
stated that Dr. Skuli Thoroddsen was “an ardent
nationalist, rash, perhaps, but undeniably sin-
cere”. The question is: is he a true nationalist?
If he were so then he would respect the national-
istic aspirations of other nations. By addressing
Her Majesty as Her Brittanic Majesty Elizabeth II
he is insulting the Scottish Nation, for Her Ma-
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