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Sigurthur Nordal, professor of Icelandic literature at the University of Iceland, and fifth incumbent of the Charles Eliot Norton Chair of Poetry, who has given to lectures of the Norton series at the Fogg Museum, finds the Widener Library one of the chief things that impresses him at Harvard, he made known to a CRIMSON interviewer...
Speaking to a large audience yesterday afternoon in the Fogg Art Museum Professor Sigurthur Nordal outlined the history and unique literary life of medieval Iceland. He was introduced by Dr. F. S. Cawley '10, Assistant Professor of Scandinavian Languages and Literature, as the fifth incumbent of the chair of poetry endowed in memory of Professor Charles Eliot Norton of Harvard...
...idea prevalent that the natives of modern Iceland have degenerated in strength and culture the lecturer showed to be false. Anthropologists have proved that Icelanders of today are of greater stature than their ancestors, and their literary efforts are also of great merit. He remarked that the collection of 17th and 18th century Icelandic literature is the most complete collection of a foreign language in Widener Library...
...first permanent settlement of Iceland was made in 870 when a band of hardy Vikings, unwilling to bear the despotism of Harold of Norway, crossed over and established the settlement of Reykjavik. They were of the first Viking stock, and set up a remarkable commonwealth with a written constitution which suited the people by its liberality. It provided for no king or executive, and was administrated by a supreme court...
...Literature at the University of Algiers, is to be Exchange Professor from France for the second semester. Friedrich von der Leyen, from the University of Cologne, is Kuno Francke Professor of German Art and Culture at Harvard for one year from September 1, 1931. Sigurthur Nordal, Professor of Icelandic Literature at the University of Iceland at Reykjavik, has come for the academic year as the fifth incumbent of the Charles Eliot Norton Professorship of Poetry...