Word: icelanders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fleet of little dragon-prowed ships with red sails moved slowly westward from Iceland. Somewhere in the grey Atlantic their Norwegian outlaw leader Eric the Red expected to find a new land. North Atlantic gales blew up. Many a little ship foundered, its red-bearded vikings drowned stolidly in their iron helmets and shirts of mail. But Eric sailed on until he came on a mountainous waste of land. Four years later he sailed there again with 14 shiploads of colonists, survivors of 25 ships that had tacked away from Iceland. Not because his new land was briefly luxuriant...
...Murray, Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford University; Eric Maclagan, Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London; Heathcote Garrod, Professor of Poetry at Oxford University; Arthur M. Hind, Assistant Keeper of the Department of Prints and Drawings at the British Museum in London; Sigurthur Nordal, Professor of Icelandic Literature at the University of Iceland at Reykjavik...
...critic, will deliver his second lecture of the Year as Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry. He will speak on "Poetry and Criticism in the Time of Elizabeth." Professor Eliot is the sixth holder of the chair, which was held last year by Sigurthur Nordal, from the University of Iceland...
...world knows the Greenland Wai took off from the North Sea Island of Sylt, site of Capt. von Gronau's seaplane school, traversed without incident the northern passage via Iceland and Greenland to Montreal. Thenceforth she made her easy way across part of the U. S., pausing at Detroit, Chicago, Milwaukee. North of Winnipeg the Whale rested on Cormorant Lake while her crew-rested, fished. Thence on to British Columbia, Dutch Harbor, Alaska, and along the stepping stones of the Aleutian Islands and Kuriles to Tokyo...
...late C. C. Stillman '98, as a memorial to Professor Norton. The holders are chosen without regard to nationality or special field, according to the terms of the endowment, as long as they represent the literary humanities. Last year, the Chair was held by Professor Sigurthur Nordal, Professor of Icelandic Literature at the University of Iceland, who spoke on "The Spirit of Icelandic Literature...