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Author : Erick Berry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1972-01-01
Category : Iceland
ISBN : 0397314027
Introduces the land, history, government, economy, people, and culture of the island republic whose spoken language has remained virtually unchanged for 900 years.
Author : Erick Berry,J.B. Lippincott & Co
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Iceland
ISBN : OCLC:56836993
Author : Laurie K Bertram
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442663015
A Viking statue, a coffee pot, a ghost story, and a controversial cake: What can the things that immigrants treasured tell us about their history? Between 1870 and 1914 almost one-quarter of Iceland’s population migrated to North America, forming enclaves in both the United States and Canada. This book examines the multi-sensory side of the immigrant past through rare photographs, interviews, artefacts, and early recipes. By revealing the hidden histories behind everyday traditions, The Viking Immigrants maps the transformation of Icelandic North American culture over a century and a half.
Author : Ari Thorgilsson Frodi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 89 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Iceland
ISBN : OCLC:5929008
Author : David Roberts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Iceland
ISBN : OCLC:1149462190
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Iceland
ISBN : WISC:89067882035
Author : Wilhelm Kristjanson
Publisher : Wallingford
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Icelanders
ISBN : UCAL:$B724146
History of the settlers from Iceland in Manitoba who came in the last decades of the nineteenth century.
Author : William R. Short
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2010-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786447275
The Sagas of Icelanders are enduring stories from Viking-age Iceland filled with love and romance, battles and feuds, tragedy and comedy. Yet these tales are little read today, even by lovers of literature. The culture and history of the people depicted in the Sagas are often unfamiliar to the modern reader, though the audience for whom the tales were intended would have had an intimate understanding of the material. This text introduces the modern reader to the daily lives and material culture of the Vikings. Topics covered include religion, housing, social customs, the settlement of disputes, and the early history of Iceland. Issues of dispute among scholars, such as the nature of settlement and the division of land, are addressed in the text.
Author : Halldor Laxness
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1997-01-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780679767923
From the Nobel Prize-winning Icelandic author, a magnificent, epic novel—"funny, clever, sardonic and brilliant" (Annie Proulx)—at last available to contemporary American readers. Set in the early twentieth century, Independent People recalls both Iceland's medieval epics and such classics as Sigrid Undset's Kristin Lavransdatter. If Bjartur of Summerhouses, the book's protagonist, is an ordinary sheep farmer, his flinty determination to achieve independence is genuinely heroic and, at the same time, terrifying and bleakly comic. Having spent eighteen years in humiliating servitude, Bjartur wants nothing more than to raise his flocks unbeholden to any man. But Bjartur's spirited daughter wants to live unbeholden to him. What ensues is a battle of wills that is by turns harsh and touching, elemental in its emotional intensity and intimate in its homely detail. Vast in scope and deeply rewarding, Independent People is a masterpiece.
Author : Ryan Eyford
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774831611
In 1875, Icelandic immigrants established a colony on the southwest shore of Lake Winnipeg. The timing and location of New Iceland was not accidental. Across the Prairies, the Canadian government was creating land reserves for Europeans in the hope that the agricultural development of Indigenous lands would support the state’s economic and political ambitions. In this innovative history, Ryan Eyford expands our understanding of the creation of western Canada: his nuanced account traces the connections between Icelandic colonists, the Indigenous people they displaced, and other settler groups while exposing the ideas and practices integral to building a colonial society.
Author : Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780802149244
“Will appeal to readers of Elena Ferrante and Margaret Atwood . . . the unusual setting offers an interesting twist on the portrait of an artist as a young woman.” —Bookpage In 1960s Iceland, Hekla dreams of being a writer. In a nation of poets, where each household proudly displays leatherbound volumes of the Sagas, and there are more writers per capita than anywhere else in the world, there is only one problem: she is a woman. After packing her few belongings, including James Joyces’s Ulysses and a Remington typewriter, Hekla heads for Reykjavik with a manuscript buried in her bags. She moves in with her friend Jon, a gay man who longs to work in the theatre, but can only find dangerous, backbreaking work on fishing trawlers. Hekla’s opportunities are equally limited: marriage and babies, or her job as a waitress, in which harassment from customers is part of the daily grind. The two friends feel completely out of place in a small and conservative world. And yet that world is changing: JFK is shot. Hemlines are rising. In Iceland, another volcano erupts and Hekla meets a poet who brings to light harsh realities about her art—as she realizes she must escape to find freedom abroad, whatever the cost. Miss Iceland, a winner of two international book awards, comes from the acclaimed author of Hotel Silence, which received the Icelandic Literary Prize. “Only a great book can make you feel you’re really there, a thousand miles and a generation away. I loved it.” —Kit de Waal, author of My Name is Leon “[A] winning tale of friendship and self-fulfillment.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review
Author : Ann-Marie Long
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004336513
In Iceland’s Relationship with Norway c.870 – c.1100: Memory, History and Identity, Ann-Marie Long reassesses the development of early Icelandic society and how it was memorialised, with particular attention given to the place of Norway in Icelandic cultural memory.
Author : David Whittaker,Gisli Thorsteinsson
Publisher : Mereo Books, mereobook, mereobooks
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-10
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781861514745
ÿWith a population of just 329,000 (barely more than Nottingham), Iceland is the most thinly-populated country in Europe, and 80% of it is uninhabited. Despite this, in the 1100 years since humans first settled there, the Icelanders have built a remarkably resourceful, diverse and robust community ? and they have never had to go to war. In fact, in 2013 the United Nations ranked Iceland the 13th most developed country in the world. Professor Gisli Thorsteinsson is Professor of Education in Reykjavik, while Dr David Whittaker is a retired academic specializing in geopolitics. The two authors have written this book to record and explain Iceland?s history and its many achievements and to introduce readers who may not be familiar with the country to the range and vitality of Icelandic thinking and achievement.
Author : Eliza Reid
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781982174040
The Canadian first lady of Iceland pens a book about why this tiny nation is leading the charge in gender equality, in the vein of The Moment of Lift. Iceland is the best place on earth to be a woman—but why? For the past twelve years, the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report has ranked Iceland number one on its list of countries closing the gap in equality between men and women. What is it about Iceland that enables its society to make such meaningful progress in this ongoing battle, from electing the world’s first female president to passing legislation specifically designed to help even the playing field at work and at home? The answer is found in the country’s sprakkar, an ancient Icelandic word meaning extraordinary or outstanding women. Eliza Reid—Canadian born and raised, and now first lady of Iceland—examines her adopted homeland’s attitude toward women: the deep-seated cultural sense of fairness, the influence of current and historical role models, and, crucially, the areas where Iceland still has room for improvement. Throughout, she interviews dozens of sprakkar to tell their inspirational stories, and expertly weaves in her own experiences as an immigrant from small-town Canada. The result is an illuminating discussion of what it means to move through the world as a woman and how the rules of society play more of a role in who we view as equal than we may understand. What makes many women’s experiences there so positive? And what can we learn about fairness to benefit our society? Like influential and progressive first ladies Eleanor Roosevelt, Hillary Rodham Clinton, and Michelle Obama, Reid uses her platform to bring the best of her nation to the world. Secrets of the Sprakkar is a powerful and atmospheric portrait of a tiny country that could lead the way forward for us all.
Author : Guðni Thorlacius Jóhannesson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9798216097549
Based upon the most recent research, this thought-provoking, up-to-date survey of the history of Iceland provides unique insight into the challenges facing a small nation in a globalized world. In more recent times, Iceland has faced other major challenges, most notably its economic fall in 2008 when a nationwide failure of its financial systems eroded it from its former position as one of the most developed and wealthiest countries in the world. The History of Iceland describes how a small nation situated on a rocky and isolated island struggled for centuries to survive but then rose to great prosperity in the modern era. The work provides a comprehensive summary of Iceland's history that shares a tale of independence versus interdependence-one that underscores how recent events have forced a people with great pride in their unique heritage to reconsider well-established notions about themselves as a nation. Based on the most recent research, this work is the first comprehensive overview to cover in detail the collapse of Iceland's economy and its subsequent effect on its people. Organized into seven main sections that chronologically cover the history of Iceland from the island's settlement to the present day, the book concludes with a revealing discussion of how each period has been perceived by later generations of Icelanders.