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THE ICELANDIC CANADIAN
SPRING, 1988
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
ROY ST. GEORGE STUBBS
is a frequent contributor to this magazine. Before retiring he practiced law in Winnipeg,
where he still lives.
LAURENCE GILLESPIE
recently received his M.A. in Icelandic from the University of Manitoba. He is currently
completing a translation of Jbhann Magnus Bjarnason’s Eirikur Hansson and Vornaeturd
Elgsheidum.
THELMA WHALE
is of Icelandic descent. Her father was born in Winnipeg, of first generation immigrants.
Her mother was born in Vestmannaeyjar. She spoke only Icelandic until starting school but
soon turned to English exclusively. She has studied Icelandic at university and visited
Iceland. Since her retirement she has kept up her Icelandic through reading and translation.
AMALIA LINDAL
has revisited Iceland many times since she lived there from 1949-72, married to an
Icelander. Her controversial and popular book Ripples From Iceland (New York: W.
Norton, 1962) will be reissued in paperback in April 1988 by Bbkaforlag Odds Bjornssonar
in Akureyri, Iceland. Canadian distribution will be handled by Hounslow Press, Toronto.
Ms. Lindal now lives in Guelph, Ontario.
KRISTI AN A MAGNUSSON
of White Rock, B.C., formerly from the Arborg-Riverton area of Manitoba, is an author
and poet. She has been a frequent contributor to this magazine.
SIGRID JOHNSON
is the librarian of the Icelandic Collection at the Elizabeth Dafoe Library at the University
of Manitoba. Originally from Arborg, Manitoba, she now lives in Winnipeg and is the
reviews editor for this magazine.
LOFTUR BJARNASON
lives in Monterey, California. He plans to spend part of the summer in Iceland preparing for
the administration of a fund he has established at Brigham Young University for the
teaching of Scandinavian in general and Icelandic in particular.
Submissions of articles, short stories and poetry are welcome. Please
contact the appropriate editor.