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THE ICELANDIC CANADIAN
SPRING, 1988
Ensk- islensk
ORDABOK
med alfrxdilegu ivafi
Om og Orlygur
landic language should be without include:
Arni Bodvarsson’s Icelandic dictionary,
Islensk ordabdk (Reykjavik: Menningars-
jddur, 1983), Icelandic-English diction-
aries such as Richard Cleasby’s and Gud-
brandur Vigfusson’s An Icelandic-English
Dictionary (Oxford: Clarendon Press,
1957), and Arngrimur Sigurdsson’s Islensk-
ensk ordabdk (Reykjavik: Isafold, 1983),
and English-Icelandic dictionaries includ-
ing Sigurdur Orn Bogason’s Ensk-islensk
ordabdk (Reykjavik: Isafold, 1976) and
Soren Sorenson’s Ensk-islensk ordabdk
(Reykjavik: Orn og Orlygur, 1984).
Whatever the need or reason to learn
Icelandic, with a little investigation a stu-
dent is sure to discover just the right pro-
gram of studies, just the right grammar
textbook and just the right dictionary.
Most commercial course materials such
as that offered by Linguaphone and gram-
mar textbooks can be special ordered
through your local bookstore. Icelandic
language dictionaries on the other hand
are not typically stocked by North Ameri-
can bookstores and are best purchased di-
rectly from Iceland.
1. B.S., “From friendly strangers to lifelong com-
panions,” in News From Iceland, December
1985, pp. 14.
Useful addresses
Programs of study: Bookstores:
Icelandic for Foreign Students H4sk6li Island vid Sudurgotu Reykjavik 101 Iceland Ndmsflokkar Reykjavikur Frikirkjuvegi 1 Reykjavik 101 Iceland Bbkaverslun Sigfusar Eymundssonar Austurstraeti 18 Reykjavik 101 Iceland
Department of Icelandic Language and Literature University of Manitoba Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada R3T 2N2 Mimir mdlaskbli Ananaustum 15 Reykjavik 101 Iceland Bbkaverslun Snaebjarnar The English Bookshop Hafnarstraeti 4 Reykjavik 101 Iceland
REVIEWS
National Geographic Society. Iceland River Challenge.
Video cassette, 60 minutes.
On a recent visit to a local shop that
rented videotapes, I happened upon a vi-
deotape made by the National Geographic
Society that may be of interest to the read-
ers of the Icelandic Canadian. It is a sixty
minute film entitled Iceland River Chal-
lenge.
This film deals with the travel from the