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Professor Charles S. Smith, of Columbia College delivered a very interesting lecture before the Deutscher Verein last evening on "Iceland in History and Literature...
...Iceland, he said, was first discovered in 865 by some venturesome Germans who were making trials of the seas. These people did not settle here but returned home as did many other explorers quite disheartened at the country. A permanent settlement, however, was made by Ingolfe in 874. The manner of the settlement was this: The people in the inlands south of Norway being unwilling to submit to Norwegian rule, migrated to Iceland in 884. This people increased until the population became from 25,000 to 30,000. They settled at first about the temples in little bands but finally...
...early literature of Iceland was written in old Norse prose and poetry, the latter being subdivided into the poetry of the Edda and Skald or court poetry. The Icelandic poet was not a poet in the strict sense of the word, but a story teller who wandered about reciting tales of Scandinavian origin. The Saga, the heroic tradition of the Norsemen, is divided in three periods: the heroic period up to 1030; the period of development from 1030 to 1100, and a third period from 1100 to 1200, during which all these legends were written down. In speaking...
Deutscher Verein. Iceland in History and Literature. Illustrated Lecture. Professor Charles S. Smith, of Columbia College. Upper Boylston...
...FRIDAY.Deutscher Verein. Iceland in History and Literature. Illustrated Lecture. Professor Charles S. Smith, of Columbia College. Upper Boylston...