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...giving his third talk as the Charles Eliot Norton Lecturer for this year, Professor Sigarther Nordal will speak on "The Sagas of Iceland" tomorrow in the large lecture room of the Fogg Art Museum at 4 o'clock...
Professor Nordal, who holds the chair of Iceland Literature in the University of Iceland, will touch on the development of the prose legends and chronicles, to which he has devoted years of special research. While studying for his Doctor's Degree in Copenhagon, he published numerous works on the Sagas of St. Olaf and other medieval Norse prose writings...
When asked about the view prevalent in Iceland on the discovery of America by Leif Ericson about the year 1000. Professor Nordal said that there was no doubt about the fact that Leif Ericson did reach the North American Continent, and that the general concensus of opinion in Iceland seems to be that he got as far South as Massachusetts in the course of his wanderings...
Professor Nordal is not like the English visitors to this country who just him and bear it and do without their usual afternoon tea while in America; he makes it himself in Iceland, and so does the same thing when in foreign countries...
...regard to the University of Iceland in Reykjavik, Professor Nordal said that it has an enrollment of about 150. The majority of these students are inhabitants of Iceland, but there are a considerable number of foreigners who come to the island to study the language and the literature, and quite a number of the Icelandic students who make their homes in other parts of the island. As yet the University has no dormitories, but it intends to build some in the near future. Students who wish to study foreign languages have to go to Europe to study them, because...