The Icelandic Canadian - 01.11.2007, Page 11

Vol. 61 #2
THE ICELANDIC CANADIAN
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climbers reached the summit for the very
first time in 1956, there was no treasure to
be found there! We must not conclude,
however, that the legend of a treasure was
entirely mistaken. The real treasure of this
place iay not at the mountain peak but
rather at its base. This treasure was quietly
born, two centuries ago this November, at
a humble turf parsonage in the valley
below.
Notes
1. Jonas Hallgrimsson, “A gomlu leidi
1841” (At an Old Grave, 1841), trans. Dick
Ringler, in Bard of Iceland: Jonas
Hallgrimsson, Poet and Scientist by Dick
Ringler (Madison: The University of
Wisconsin Press, 2002), 199. Ringler’s vol-
ume is the authoritative English-language
work on the life and letters of Jonas
Hallgrimsson and is a masterpiece in the art
of translating poetry!
2. Jonas Hallgrimsson, “Eg bid ad heil-
sa!” (I Send Greetings!), trans. Jakobina
Johnson, in Icelandic Lyrics: Originals and
Tranlations, ed. Richard Beck (Reykjavik:
Porhallus Bjarnarson, 1930), 56-59.
3. Stefan Einarsson, A History of
Icelandic Literature (New York: The Johns
Hopkins Press, 1957), 225-226.
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