Word: icelanders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...collection, which is to bear Professor Schofield's name, was the largest private library in Iceland, and was purchased directly from its former owner, Kristjan Kristjansson, a merchant of Reykjavik, who had spent many years gathering it. It contains works both of medieval and of modern literature but is particularly rich in the modern field. Most of the older books are in the original bindings; there are a large number of rarities and some unique items. Together with the Maurer Collection, given to the University in 1904 by the late Professor A. C. Coolidge, it gives Harvard...
...Irish wit attracts not only those who seek to be amused but also those intellectuals who appreciate "AE" as the man who, along with Yeats, was a leader of the Irish Renaissance. His flowing beard and imposing personality might suggest to many that he was the "Walt Whitman of Iceland." Different as the poetry of the two men is, they both have much the same magnetism and appeal. Many who are already becoming bored with too much reading period in Widener may well find some worthwhile diversion tonight on the other side of Quincy Street...
...cryolite*; mines. Trade in everything except cryolite is a monopoly of the Danish Crown, but even so the monetary returns from Greenland are so meagre that Denmark is out of pocket some $150,000 yearly as a result of keeping her huge colony. Greenland is bigger than Iceland which is not a "Danish colony" but a "sovereign State" whose king, Christian X, happens to be also King of Denmark...
...voyage of inspection Prime Minister Stauning also visited the Faroe Islands which are legally a part of Denmark proper and lie midway between the Shetland Islands and Iceland. These tiny isles with an area of only 540 sq. mi. have a population of 22,835-whereas big Greenland with an area 84 times as great (46,740 sq. mi.) has a population of only 14,355. "In my opinion," said Prime Minister Stauning, "there is room in the Faroe Islands for private initiative and the investment of capital to establish repair stations equipped with large petroleum and benzine tanks...
Today Professor Koht will give the second of a series of lectures in the Lowell Institute. They will all be on Norse folklore, a subject on which Koht is an authority. He remarked, "Tales of Iceland, Norway, and Sweden, even though they may be a thousand years old are still very popular in Scandinavia. They have a peculiarity in that they need no translation to make them modern. They can be read in their original form, provided the reader has a knowledge of the language, and be easily understood, English translations have been made of them, but I am afraid...