Fróðskaparrit - 01.01.1964, Page 5

The Personal ímpact of Jakobsen in Shetland and Orkney J3
record to show that the present*day teaching of Norwegian
in Lerwick and Cambridge, on their different levels, can
both be traced back to the influence of Jakobsen.
In Shetland of course it was not only scholarly people
who got to know Jakobsen — the mass of people came
to know him. Only a few weeks ago a country woman
told me she could remember him in her old home.
In Orkney, where he spent much less time, he could not
have met and spoken to so many people, but those who
did meet him formed the same kind of impression of him
as all did in Shetland. In 1937, while in Kirkwall for the
celebrations of the octocentenary of St. Magnus Cathedral,
I got to know John Mooney, the biographer of St. Magnus
and the father of Scout Mooney, one of two British Scouts
chosen by Sir Ernest Shackleton for an Antarctic expedition.
Mr Mooney had been visited by Jakobsen in connection
with the Orkney speech, and he had the same fond and
happy recollections of Jakobsen as those I have referred to
in Shetland.
Finally I wish to say how interested and glad I was,
while in Thorshavn in June, 1962, to observe that a street
in the town has been named after Jakob Jakobsen.
ÚRTAK
Sjálvur havi eg ongantíð hitt dr. Jakobsen, men faðir mín, Thomas
Manson, og farbróðir mín, James Manson, prentaðu tveir teir fyrstu fyri-
lestrarnar, sum dr. Jakobsen helt í Lerwick fyri 1897 um mál og staðar-
nøvn í Hetlandi, fyrstu úrslit av rannsóknum hansara her í oyggjunum
1893-1895.
Enn minnast fólk her í Hetlandi dr. Jakobsen, ið var sera væl dámdur
av øllum. Gamalur blindur frásøgumaður lýsti hann fyri mær við orð-
unum: Hann var ein aðalborin sál.
Umframt vísindaligu úrslit hansara eigur ikki at verða gloymt, at tað
var hann, ið kveikti áhugan fyri hetlendskum máli, og at honum er
eisini fyri at takka hin vaxandi áhugin í Hetlandi fyri norðurlendskum
málum.