Iceland: an Exhibit in Special Collections

Iceland: An Exhibit in Special Collections

July 10 through October 2017

With the Libraries’ acquisition of Chester Thordarson’s collection in the late 1940s came many titles in Icelandic and about Iceland. Guest exhibit curators Peter Gorman and Todd Michelson-Ambelang have drawn on the Thordarson Collection, as well as other holdings of Special Collections, Memorial Library, Mills Music Library, and the Wisconsin Historical Society, to illustrate Iceland’s natural history, folklore, literature, print culture, and religion. From 16th-century Icelandic Bibles to a recent “intimate portrait of Icelandic ice” by photographer Ian Van Coller, the exhibit affords a glimpse into Iceland’s stark landscape and rich culture and – we hope – encourages viewers to explore further the Libraries’ strong holdings about the land of fire and ice.

Department of Special Collections 976 Memorial Library University of Wisconsin–Madison 728 State Street Madison, WI 57306 https://www.library.wisc.edu/specialcollections/

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ATLANTIC PUFFINS

As highlighted in the online Iceland Magazine, “The Atlantic Puffin, also known as the Common Puffin, is a species of sea-bird in the auk family that breeds in and around Iceland.” Its name in Icelandic is Lundi; the scientific name is Fratercula arctica.

Although more than half of the world’s population of puffins live in Iceland, they are abundant from Newfoundland to Ireland and Scotland; the Maine ocean islands provide nesting sites for Atlantic puffins in the United States. One of our colleagues in Central Technical Services and Special Collections, Cindy Lundey (!) has adopted a 14- year-old puffin, Penelope by name, through Audubon Project Puffin in Maine. See more about the project at http://projectpuffin.audubon.org/get-involved/adopt-puffin . In response to Cindy’s query, we have learned that the puffins from Maine tracked by the project “have gone to an area southeast of Massachusetts” during migration: “they don’t interact with the Iceland puffins. Scientists from across the puffins’ range (the whole North Atlantic) have found that the different populations of puffins stay separate even in the winter. Interesting!”

Van Coller, Ian. Lundi. Bozeman, Montana: Doring Press, 2016. Copy 2 of 10. Acquired through the Reeder Family Fund. The artist describes this as a “handmade artist book that I meant as a contemplation on the decline of the Atlantic Puffin due to climate change and human impacts. The book includes photographs I made in Iceland and the Faroe Islands in 2014, pages that I laser cut, found postcards and historic images, as well as appropriated texts either from scientific journals or press clippings. The prints are all pigment prints made by myself, and the book is a drum leaf bound by Rory Sparks.” Special Collections. Press Doring Press oversize

Yarrell, William. A history of British birds. Illustrated by 520 wood-engravings. London: John Van Voorst, 1843. On display: v. 3 of 3. Special Collections. Thordarson T 2752

Gould, John. The birds of Great Britain. London: For the author by Taylor and Francis, 1873. On display: v. 5 of 5. With the bookplate of Gregory M. Mathews. Issued in 25 parts over the years 1862-1873. “What a singular bird it is, this Parrot of the sea!” Special Collections. Thordarson T 1764 flat

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LANDSCAPE

Van Coller, Ian, photographer. Fissure. Bozeman, Montana: Doring Press, 2015. Copy number 4 of 5. Colophon signed by the artist. Acquired through the Louis and Esther Kaplan Fund. Special Collections. Press Doring Press flat

Featuring photographs by Ian van Coller, Iceland 2014. As the photographer describes, “This is the second in my series of books about glaciers…. I intend this to be an ongoing series of books about glaciers from various regions around the globe. There are 19 image plates, a title page, an index and a colophon.” Binding and letterpress by Rory Sparks; archival pigment prints on Asuka.

Van Coller’s book Lundi (about the Atlantic puffin) is featured elsewhere in this exhibit.

Special Collections also holds The last glacier, a collaboration with artists Todd Anderson (from Clemson University), Bruce Crownover (master printer at Tandem Press in Madison), Ian van Coller, and master book maker Rory Sparks, with an introduction by Nancy Mahoney.

EDUCATION

Moller, Martin. Um̄ Pijnu og Dauda Drottens vors Jesu Christi: Eintal Salarennar vid siaalfa sig ... Saman̄teked wr Gudlegre Ritningu og Skrifum þeirra gomlu Lærefedra. 4th ed. Þrickt a Hoolum i Hiallta-Dal: af Halldore Erikssyne, 1746. Special Collections. Thordarson T 4702

Rit þess Islenzka lærdóms-lista félags. Kaupmannahøfn [Copenhagen]: Jóhann Rudólph Thiele, 1781-1796. On display: v. 1, 5. Special Collections. X51 IS5

Rask, Rasmus. Lestrarkver handa heldri manna börnum: með stuttum skíríngargreinum um stafrofid og annað þartil heyrandi. Kaupmannahöfn: Prentað hjá dírektør Jens Hostûp Schûlz, 1830. Special Collections. Thordarson T 4818

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Íslenzk ljödabök Jóns Þorlákssonar …. Ed. Jón Sigurðsson. Kaupmannahöfn: Prentað á kostnað Þorsteins students Jónssonar, 1842-1843. Special Collections Thordarson T 4828 v. 1

Balle, Nicolai Edinger. Laerdömsbók i Evangelist-kristilegum Trúarbrøgdum, handa Unglingum. Reykjaviḱ: Prentud í prentsmidju Islands, á kostnad hennar, hjá Einari Þórdarsyni, 1876. Special Collections. Thordarson T 4927

Nygaard, Marius. Oldnorsk grammatik til skolebrug. 4. udg. ed. Bergen: E. B. Giertsen, 1894. Special Collections. A 105 Cutter

STORIES, LEGENDS, & FAIRY TALES

Symington, Andrew James. Pen and pencil sketches of Faröe and Iceland. With an appendix containing translations from the Icelandic [by Ólafur Pálsson] and 51 illustrations engraved on wood by W. J. Linton. London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1862. Among the appendices are “Icelandic stories and fairy tales,” trans. Ólafur Pálsson, and “Information for intending tourists.” Memorial Library. A 10787 Cutter

Icelandic legends. Collected by Jón Arnason. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1866. Special Collections. CA 7885

Ólafur Davíðsson, ed. Íslenzkar Þjóðsögur. Reykjavík: Ísafoldarprentsmiðja, 1895. Memorial Library. PT7433 D3

Icelandic fairy tales. Translated and edited by Mrs. Angus W. Hall; with twenty-two illustrations by E.A. Mason. New York: A.L. Burt, [1897?] Memorial Library. BU49 H14 Cutter

Sigfús Sigfússon. Íslenskar þjóðsögur og sagnir. Ný útg. ed. Reykjavík: Bókaútgáfan Þjóðsaga, 1982. 2 v. Memorial Library. GR215 I7 1982

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FOREIGN SOURCES

Sturla, Þórðarson. The Norwegian account of Haco's expedition against Scotland; A.D. MCCLXIII. Copenhagen: Printed for the author, 1782. Special Collections. F431 S93 Cutter; also Thordarson T 4719

Milton, John. Ens enska skálds, J. Miltons, Paradísar missir. Kaupmannahöfn: Prentat hja H.F. Popp, 1828. Paradise lost in Icelandic. Special Collections. Thordarson T 2193

Ingibjörg, Skaptadóttir. Kaupstaðarferðir. Lítil frásaga. Akureyri: O. R. G. T. stúke "Ísafold", 1888. A novel. Special Collections. PT7511 S65 K3

Matthías Jochumsson. Chicagó- för mín 1893. Akureyri: Prentsmiđja Björns Jónssonar, 1893. Probably issued to coincide with the World’s Columbian Exposition. Bound with: Sharpe, Hólmfríđur G. C. (Stephensen). Sálin hans Jóns míns: Leikr i þremr þáttum. Reykjavík: Bókverzlum Sigf. Eymundssonar, 1897. Special Collections. Thordarson T 4802

Steingrímur Thorsteinsson, ed. Þúsund og ein nótt: Arabiskar sögur. 2. útg. endurskoðuð. ed. Reykjavík: Bókaverzlun Sigurðar Jónssonar, 1910-1914. Translation of the Arabian nights into Icelandic. Special Collections. Thordarson T 4884 kvæði

Left to right: Eggert Ólafsson. Kvæði Eggerts Ólafssonar: útgefin eptir þeim beztu handritum er feingizt gátu." Kaupmannahöfn: E. Jónsson, Th. Sæmundsson, S. Thorarensen [editors and publishers], 1832. A 19th-century edition of the work of an 18th-century author. Special Collections. Thordarson T 4784

Þorsteinn Vilhjálmur Gíslason. Nokkur kvæði. Reykjavík: Prentsmiðja Reykjavíkur, 1904. Includes translations from B. Björnson and Börge Jansen. Special Collections. Thordarson T 4812

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Örn Arnarson [i.e. Magnús Stefánsson]. Illgresi: kvæði. Reykjavík: Prentsmiðjan Acta, 1924. Special Collections. Thordarson T 4785

Beck, Richard. Ljóðmál: kvæði. Winnipeg, 1929. Inscribed by the author to Chester Thordarson. Special Collections. Thordarson T 4787

MATTERS LEGAL

Lög-book Islendinga hvöria sam sett hefur Magnus Noregs kongur (loflegrar minningar). Special Collections. MS 121 Icelandic law-book transcribed in an unidentified hand with marginal annotations in another hand. Owned by Chester Thordarson, among others.

Magnus. Løgbok islendinga, hvøria saman̄ hefur sett Magnus Noregs kongur, loflegrar min̄ingar. Prentud ad niju a Hoolum i Hialltad that is, Hólar i Hjaltadal: af Marteine Arnoddssyne, 1709. Special Collections. T 4693

Iceland. Alþingi. Løg-þingis bookin, innehaldande þad, er giørdist og frāfór fyrir løgþingis-Rettinum: anno. Leirárgørdum vid Leirá: Prentad á kostnad Islands almennu …. af … G. J. Schagfjord, 1799-1800. Special Collections. Thordarson T 4689

NATURAL HISTORY

Anderson, Johann. Nachrichten von Island, Grönland und der Strasse Davis zum wahren Nutzen der Wissenschaften und der Handlung: Mit Kupfern, und einer nach den neuesten und in diesem Werke angegebenen Entdeckungen, genau eingerichteten Landcharte, nebst einem Vorberichte von den Lebensumständen des Herrn Verfassers. Hamburg: G. C. Grund, 1746. About zoology in Iceland and Greenland, as well as linguistics. Special Collections. Thordarson T 4751

Eggert Ólafsson. Des Vice-lavmands Eggert Olafsens und des Landphysici Biarne Povelsens Reise durch Island. Kopenhagen; Leipzig: Heinecke und Faber, 1774. 2 v. Special Collections. Thordarson T 3895

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Eggert Ólafsson. Voyage en Islande, fait par ordre de S. M. danoise, contenant des observations sur les mœurs et les usages des habitans; une description des lacs, rivières, glaciers, sources chaudes et volcans; des diverses espèces de terres, pierres, fossiles et pétrifications; des animaux, poissons et insectes etc., etc.; avec un atlas. “Traduit du danois par Gauthier de Lapeyronie.” Paris and Strassbourg: Frères Levrault, 1802. Our copy has only the plates. Special Collections. Thordarson T 4837

Kneeland, Samuel. An American in Iceland. An account of its scenery, people and history. With a description of its millennial celebration in August, 1874; with notes on the Orkney, Shetland, and Faroe islands, and the great eruption of 1875. Boston: Lockwood, Brooks, and Co., 1876. Cover reproduced in UW Digital Collections, “Publishers' Bindings Online, 1815-1930: The Art of Books.” Special Collections. G49 K68 (another copy at Thordarson T 4747).

Møller, Frantz Peckel. Cod-liver oil and chemistry. London and Christiana: P. Möller, 1895. Includes P. M. Heyerdahl’s summary of “new chemical researches on cod-liver oil.” Special Collections. Duveen D 2224 (another copy in the Ebling Library Historical Collections).

Stanley, John Thomas. An account of the hot springs near Rykum in Iceland: With an analysis of their waters. [Edinburgh?], 1791. Includes “An account of the hot springs in a letter to Dr. Black” and “An analysis of the waters of some hot springs in Iceland” by Joseph Black. Special Collections. Duveen D 1979

Mackenzie, George Steuart. Travels in the island of Iceland during the summer of the year MDCCCX. Edinburgh: London: Printed by Thomas Allan and Co., for Archibald Constable and Co.; Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, & Brown: Cadell & Davies: William Miller: John Murray, 1811. Special Collections. Thordarson T 3664 (another copy is in the exhibit case entitled Travels)

Hooker, Sir William Jackson. Journal of a tour in Iceland in the summer of 1809. 2nd ed., with additions. London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1813. Vol. 2 of 2. The first volume is in the large case entitled Maps. Special Collections. Thordarson T 3320

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Henderson, Ebenezer. Iceland; Or, the journal of a residence in that island, during the years 1814 and 1815. Edinburgh: Oliphant, Waugh and Innes; [etc., etc.], 1818. Special Collections. CA 7694 v. 1

Henderson, Ebenezer. Iceland, or, The journal of a residence in that island, during the years 1814 and 1815: Containing observations on the natural phenomena, history, literature, and antiquities of the island; and the religion, character, manners, and customs of its inhabitants; with an introduction and appendix. 2nd edition. Edinburgh: Printed for Waugh and Innes, 1819 (W. Aitken). Special Collections. G49 H38 Cutter (another copy at F49 H49 Cutter)

CORRESPONDENCE CONCERNING ICELAND: WRITTEN TO SIR JOSEPH BANKS

A small but rich set of correspondence and manuscripts was acquired by Thordarson because of its relevance to both the history of science and Iceland, and came to the Libraries in the late 1940s as part of the Thordarson Collection. This manuscript collection has been digitized in full and is available at http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/HistSciTech.BanksJ .

Sir Joseph Banks was a British naturalist. He took part in Captain Cook’s first great voyage, served as patron of the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew, and was elected President of the Royal Society of London in 1778, a post he held until his death in 1820.

As we learn from Sir Joseph Banks, Iceland and the North Atlantic 1772-1820: Journals, letters and documents, edited by Professor Anna Agnarsdóttir of the University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Banks led the first British scientific expedition to Iceland in 1772, and continued his interest in matters Icelandic during the period of the Napoleonic Wars, when Banks engineered the placement of Danish dependencies in the North Atlantic, including Iceland, under the protection of Britain. Many of the documents on display are transcribed in that volume. For more on Banks’ voyage to Iceland in 1772, see various English translations beginning in 1780 of Uno von Troll’s Letters on Iceland.

Instructions sent by Sir J. Banks, 1772, to Capt. Phipps on his northern voyage. The page begins “it varies very much in Colour,” referring to various kinds of seals Phipps may encounter. The next paragraph begins “Whales are a Kind of animals

Iceland: An Exhibit in Special Collections which Naturalists are almost totaly unaquainted [sic]…” and the paragraph following describes “Birds of the diving Kind as Puffins.”

Synopsis of a book on British trade with Iceland, including an outline of regulations. Chapter 1 concerns “the Iceland trade and the privileges of the merchants in general”; Chapter 2, “the privileges and obligations of the merchants in Iceland,” including “Regulation for goods damaged on the sea, specially grains.”

Translation from the Danish of a letter from Henkel to Horneman, May 13, 1811, regarding cod liver oil, among other topics. For more on the chemistry of cod liver oil, see the case entitled Natural History.

Letter from Banks regarding misdemeanors of Englishmen in Iceland. Note that Banks was writing from Soho Square in London. The undated letter begins, “The Contents of your Letter gave me Pain, not only on the Considerations of the ill Conduct of the British officers of merchantmen who so wantonly have transgressed the Laws of a Countrey [sic] where Neutrality is admitted [?] by the English nation ….”

Letter to Sir Joseph Banks from C. J. Latrobe regarding licenses to trade with Iceland. May 13, 1813.

Undated certificate by Sir Joseph Banks that Capt. Kater is engaged on experiments with the seconds pendulum in various latitudes. Note the signature “Jos. Banks P.R.S., &c.” The abbreviation P.R.S. stands for President of the Royal Society.

PRINT CULTURE

Hakluyt, Richard.The principal navigations: voyages, traffiques and discoveries of the English nation, made by sea or ouerland, to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth, at any time within the compasse of these 1600 yeres: divided into three severall volumes, according to the positions of the regions, whereunto they were directed. The first volume containeth the worthy discoveries &c. of the English toward the north and northeast by sea ... together with many notable monuments and testimonies of the ancient forren trades, and of the warrelike and other shipping of this realme of England in former ages. Whereunto is annexed a briefe commentary of the true state of Island, and of the northern seas and lands situate that way; as also the memorable defeat of the Spanish huge Armada, Anno 1588. The second volume comprehendeth the principall nauigations, voyages, traffiques and discoueries of the English

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nation made by sea or ouer-land, to the south and south-east. London: George Bishop, Ralph Newberie, and Robert Barker, London, 1599-1600. 3 v. in 2. Containing an English translation of Arngrímur Jónsson’s Brevis commentarius de Islandia. Special Collections. Thordarson T 1874-1875, On display: T 1874

Finnur Magnússon. "Minnisverð tíðindí." Leirárgørdum vid Leirá. 7 volumes. Minnisverð tíðindí .. Leirárgørdum vid Leirá. Bindi 1-3 (1795-1804). From the first secular printing press in Iceland, at Leirá. Shown here is the volume for 1801-1802. Special Collections. Thordarson T 4915

Hallgrímur Jónsson. Stafrófskver. Reykjavík: Sigurður Jónsson, 1907. I is for ice bear! Special Collections. Thordarson T 4814

For more about printing in Iceland, please see: Benedikz, Benedikt S. Iceland. The spread of printing. Amsterdam: [A. L.] van Gendt; London: Routledge & Kegan Paul; New York: Schram, 1969. Special Collections Reference. Z170 I3 B4

EARLY ICELANDIC BIBLES

We are fortunate to have two copies of the so-called Guðbrandur Bible of 1584, called thus after Guðbrandur Þorláksson, bishop of Hólar, 1541?-1627. One contains only the New Testament; the other, both the Old Testament and New Testament, in a full leather binding of the period complete with metal bosses and clasps.

Guðbrandur Þorláksson made use of the portions already published, and also employed a version of the Prophets and 1 and 2 Maccabees, prepared in 1574-1575 by Gísli Jónsson, bishop of Skálholt. All these materials, however, were carefully revised by Guðbrandur before he incorporated them in the work which he himself completed. Luther's prefaces were added. At the time of printing (by Jón Jónsson at Hólar), Iceland belonged to Denmark. The cost of publication —1,000 copies in all — was mainly defrayed by the help of King Frederick II, who also held that every church in Iceland should purchase a copy. Indeed, the foreword prescribed that the Bible shall be kept in each church, available for use of all the parish.

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The work exhibits a feature unusual, and perhaps unique, in the history of printing. Independently of the list of errata supplied at the end of the Book of Revelation, the editor caused a number of corrections to be made in the text itself, after the sheets had been printed. The words substituted or added were stamped by hand on the page — generally in the margin, but sometimes above or below the line, by means of type gathered up and, presumably, tied together.

The elaborate woodcut border used for all three titles contains representations of the Nativity, the Baptism, the Transfiguration, etc. The volume also features a few woodcut illustrations and initial letters. These are said to have been designed and engraved by Bishop Guðbrandur himself: the title-border also contains his initials.

Biblia: það er Øll Heilög Ritning vtlögð a Norraenu: Með formalum Doct. Martini. Lutheri. Prentad a Holum: af Jone Jons Syne, 1584. Special Collections. Thordarson T 281 oversize, containing only the New Testament. Special Collections. Thordarson T 280 oversize, containing both the Old Testament and New Testament, in a full leather binding of the period complete with metal bosses and clasps.

RELIGIOUS WORKS Luther, Martin. Sa Store catechismus Þad er, Søñ, Einfolld og lios utskyring Christelig ra Fræda, sem er Grundvøllur Truar vorrar og Saaluhialpar Lærdoms, af þm̃ hellstu Greinum heilagrar Bibliu, heñar Historium og Bevijsingum samanteken, Gude Almaattugum til Lofs og Dyrdar, eñ Almwganum til Gagns & Goda. Editio III. Skaalhollte: Prentud af Jone Snorrasyne, 1691. Spangenberg's Catechismus Luther in Icelandic, based on Clostergaard’s Danish version. Special Collections. Thordarson T 4720

Þjóðkirkja Íslands. Graduale: ein almen̄eleg messusaungs book um þan̄ saung og ceremoniur sem i kyrkiun̄e eiga ad syngiast og halldast hier i lande epter godre og christelegre sidreniu sem og vors allra naadugasta arfa kongs og herra Christians þess Fimmta kyrkiu ritual. Editio 10. Þryckt a Hoolum i Hialltadal: af Marteine Arnoddssyne, 1723. Unaccompanied melodies, with Latin chants and newer, Lutheran, chorales. Special Collections. Thordarson T 4679

Jón Thorsteinsson. Þess Konunglega Spaamañs Davids Psaltare A Lioodmæle settur. Editio 2. Þricktur a Hoolum i Hiallta-Dal: Af Halldore Erikssyne, 1746.

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Open to the 23rd Psalm. Special Collections. Thordarson T 4666

Habermann, Johann. Christelegar Baener. Trans. Oddur Einarsson, bishop of Skálholt. Editio III. Hoolum i Hialltadal: Af Halldore Eriks-Syne, 1747. Translation of Christliche Gebete für allerlei Noth und Stände der ganzen Christenheit. Special Collections. Thordarson T 4682

Jón Vídalín. Stutt og einfølld underviisun um Christenndoomen̄, saman̄teken̄ epter Fræde- Bookum hin̄ar Evangelisku Kyrkiu. Editio III. Þryckt aa Hoolum i Hialltadal: Af Halldore Erikssyne, 1748. Special Collections. Thordarson T 4728

Lassenius, Johannes. Ein Ny Psalma Bok Islendsk: Med mørgum andligum Christeligum Lof- Saungvum og Vijsum. Hoolum i Hialltadal: Af Halldore Eriks-Syne, 1751. Hymns and translations of Luther's version of the Psalms. The leather of the binding covers wood; the volume also include leaves in an unknown manuscript hand. Special Collections. Thordarson T 4667

Lassenius, Johannes. Nytsamleg bæna bok: Sem lesast maa, Aaa sierhverium degi, vikunnar kvelld og morgna,: Samannskrifud i þijsku Maale. Hoolum i Hialltadal: Af Jooni Olafssyni, 1771. Special Collections. Thordarson T 4699

Jón Einarsson. Nockrar Saung-vijsur um̄ Kross og Motlætingar Guds Barna i þessum Heime [etc.] Hoolum i Hialltadal, 1746. Special Collections. Thordarson T 4674a

Steinn, Jónsson. Biblia: þad er øll Heiløg Ritning [etc.] 3rd ed. Hoolum i Hialltadal: þryckt af Marteine Arnoddssyne, 1728. Special Collections. B 0.1 B58ic 1728 oversize

Thorkelín Grímur Jónsson. Þat Nya Testamente vors Drottins og Endurlausnara Jesu Christi efter þeirri annari útgáfu þes á Islendsku. Copenhagen: Sebastian Popp, 1807. Open here to the end of Matthew and the beginning of Mark. Special Collections. B0.1 B584ic 1807

Jón Vídalín. Sex prédikanir útaf píningar historíu Drottins vors Jesú Christí. Kaupmannhöfn: H.F. Popp, 1832. We note the repurposing of what we guess to be 19th-century wallpaper in the binding.

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Special Collections. BX8066 V5 S3

RIMAR

Þorsteinn Jónsson. Rímur af Blómsturvalla köppum. Kaupmannahof̈n: Prentaðar hjá S. L. Møller, 1834. The first leaf is by an unknown hand. Special Collections. PT7501 T6 R5

Þorlákur Guðbrandsson. Rimur af Ulfari sterka. Videyar klaustri: Prentadar á forlag O. M. Stephensens, 1834. “Utgéfnar eptir Hrappseyar utgáfunni.” Special Collections. Thordarson T 4756

Magnus Jónsson. Rímur af Bernótusi Borneyjarkappa. Reykjavík: Prentadar í Prentsmidju Islands, 1854. Special Collections. Thordarson T 4811

Bólu, Hjálmar. [Rímur af Göngu-Hrólfi.] Iceland, 1872. From the Thordarson Collection. Unbound; originally part of a larger work. The extant pages are complete with the rímur cycle beginning on p. 157 and the 22nd ríma ending on p. 369. Colophon: “endað að skrifa 15. april 1872. Jón Jónsson.” The first printed edition was 1884. Special Collections. MS 139

FACSIMILE OF THE CODEX SCARDENSIS

Skarðsbók: Codex Scardensis, AM 350 fol. Íslensk miðaldahandrit = Manuscripta Islandica Medii Aevi. Jónas Kristjánsson, Ólafur Halldórsson, Sigurður Líndal rituðu formála. Reykjavík: S. Kristinsson, 1981. Facsimile of an important manuscript source for Icelandic ecclesiastical law. Special Collections. CA 6681 flat

For more about this manuscript and more, see Codex Scardensis. Ed. Desmond Slay. Copenhagen: Rosenkilde and Bagger, 1960. Special Collections Reference. Z115 I2 E3 v.2 oversize

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Gísli Sigurðsson. The manuscripts of Iceland. Culture House editions. Reykjavík: Ární Magnússon Institute in Iceland, 2004. Gift of Professor William Cronon. Special Collections. CA 18000 no. 715

SONGS

Aagesen, John. The students' Scandinavian song book. Madison, Wis.: Dept. of Scandinavian, University of Wisconsin, 1950. This Icelandic “national song” is meant to be sung to the tune of “God save the king” = “My country ‘tis of thee.” The LP displayed in the back of this exhibit case includes Iceland’s national anthem as adopted in 1944: “Lofsöngur” (“Hymn”), also known as “Ó Guð vors lands” (“O, God of Our Land"), with music by Sveinbjörn Sveinbjörnsson and lyrics by Matthías Jochumsson. Special Collections. CA 17215 (other copies in Wisconsin Music Archives and UW Archives)

Grundtvig, Sven, ed. Íslenzk fornkvæði. Nordiske oldskrifter. Kjøbenhavn: Brødrene Berlings og S.L. Møllers bogtrykkeri, 1854-1885. Ballads and folk songs, issued in 4 parts. After the editor's death the work was completed by Pálmi Pálsson. Memorial Library. X51V G92

Sigur Rós (musical group). Ágætis byrjun. PIAS America: Fatcat, 2001. Mills Music Library. COMP DISC 15777

Jón Helgason. Íslenzk fornkvæði = Islandske folkeviser. Editiones Arnamagnaeanae Series B. 8 v. København: E. Munksgaard, 1962-1981. Memorial Library. PT7230 H38 v. 3 [of 8]

Jón Leifs. Requiem. Íslensk kórverk. Reykjavík: Íslensk Tónverkamiðstöð, 1996. For unaccompanied chorus; setting of words by Jónas Hallgrímsson. Intellectual property rights statement stamped in Icelandic on every page. Mills Music Library. M1582 J65 R4 1996

An anthology of Icelandic choir music. Jón Stefánsson, conductor. Djursholm, Sweden: Bis, [1983]. Mills Music Library. LP 72389

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TRAVELS TO ICELAND

Mackenzie, George Steuart. Travels in the island of Iceland during the summer of the year MDCCCX. Edinburgh: London: Printed by Thomas Allan and Co., for Archibald Constable and Co.; Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, & Brown: Cadell & Davies: William Miller: John Murray, 1811. Gift of Bruce and Carol Grover. Contains accounts by multiple authors. Special Collections. CA 18040 no. 319 (another copy is in the case entitled Natural History)

Hooker, Sir William Jackson. Journal of a tour in Iceland in the summer of 1809. Yarmouth: Printed by J. Keymer ... 1811. Special Collections. Thordarson T 3318

Henderson, Ebenezer. Iceland; or, The journal of a residence in that island, during the years 1814 and 1815. Edinburgh: Oliphant, Waugh and Innes; etc., etc., 1818. “Containing observations on the natural phenomena, history, literature, and antiquities of the island; and the religion, character, manners, and customs of its inhabitants…. Illustrated with a map and engravings.” Special Collections. CA 7694 v. 2

Metcalfe, Rev. Frederick. The Oxonian in Iceland; or, Notes of travel in that island in the summer of 1860, with glances at Icelandic folk-lore and sagas. London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1861. Special Collections. Thordarson T 4782

Journal of a trip to Iceland. London: S. Straker, 1882. “By a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society; revised by G. B. M.” Thordarson T 4916

Þorsteinn Erlingsson. Ruins of the saga time: Being an account of travels and explorations in Iceland in the summer of 1895. London: D. Nutt, 1899. As noted on the title page, by Thorsteinn Erlingsson, on behalf of Miss Cornelia Horsford .... With an introduction by F. T. Norris and Jón Stefánsson, Ph. D., and a résumé, in French, by E. D. Grand. Published by the Viking Club, London. Special Collections. Thordarson T 4744

Iceland: An Exhibit in Special Collections

ATLAS OF NAVIGATION & COMMERCE, 18TH-CENTURY STYLE

Renard, Louis, Atlas van zeevaert en koophandel door de geheele weereldt: Vertoonende in bizondere op elkander volgende Kaerten, alle desselfs Zeekusten en Haevens; met Beschryvingen van de Natuur Voortbrengsels, Handwerksels, Godsdiensten, Bestier en Koophandel van alle Gewesten, &c. Amsterdam: Reinier en Ioshua Ottens, 1745. Gift of Robert and Linda Graebner. Dutch version of Atlas de la navigation et du commerce qui se fait dans toutes les parties du monde. Text in Dutch, maps in Dutch and French or Dutch and Latin. Not necessarily easy for modern readers, schooled in north = up, to get their bearings. “Ysland” is near the compass rose. Special Collections. CA 18050 flat

SAGAS

Jon Jónsson. Orkneyinga saga, sive, Historia Orcadensium. Hafniae: Sumtibus illustriss P. F. Suhm, 1780. The page opening refers to the date “1137 A.D.” Text in Icelandic and Latin on opposite pages. Special Collections. Thordarson T 4829

Johnstone, James. Lodbrokar-quida, or, The death-song of Lodbroc. Copenhagen: The author, 1782. “Now first correctly printed from various manuscripts, with a free English translation, to which are added, the various readings, a literal Latin version, an Islando-Latino glossary; and explanatory notes by the Rev. James Johnstone.” Special Collections. Thordarson T 4697 (second copy at call number PT7287 R6 E54)

Snorri, Sturluson. Egils-saga, sive Egilli Skallagrimii vita. Havniæ: sumptibus Legati Arna- Magnæani ex typographeo J.R. Thiele, 1809. Edited and translated by Guðmundur Magnússon; preface by Grímur J. Thorkelin. Special Collections. Thordarson T 4831

Werlauff, E. C. Vatnsdaela saga ok saga af Finnboga hinum rama. Vatnsdolernes historie og Finnboge hiin Staerkes lebnet. Kiøbenhavn: C. F. Schubart, 1812. Bekostede af Jacob Val. Udg. af E. C. Werlauff.

Iceland: An Exhibit in Special Collections

Icelandic text and Danish translation on opposite pages. Special Collections. Thordarson T 4824

MAPS

Olaus, Magnus, Archbishop of Uppsala. Historia delle genti et della natvra cose settentrionali. Nuouamente tr. in lingua toscana. Venice: Appresso I. Giunti, 1565; nella stamperia di Domenico Nicolini, alle spese de gli heredi di Luc'antonio Giunti. Special Collections also holds Latin editions of 1555 and 1558. Special Collections. 1373449 noncurrent oversize.

“Novissima Islandiæ Tabula.” Amsterdam: Typis apud P. Schenk, et G. Valk, [1740?] According to the National and University Library of Iceland (at http://islandskort.is/en/map/show/91), “When Joris Carolus' map of Iceland was published in 1630, it was adopted by several authors of the various miscellanies which were then in fashion. Among them were two publishers in Amsterdam, Peter Schenk and Gerard Valk.” Wisconsin Historical Society Archives. Maps H GX49 1740 S

Horrebow, Niels. The natural history of Iceland: Containing a particular and accurate account of the different soils, burning mountains, minerals, vegetables, metals, stones, beasts, birds, and fishes: Together with the disposition, customs, and manner of living of the inhabitants: Interspersed with an account of the island, by Mr. Anderson, late burgo-master of Hamburgh [sic]: To which is added, a meteorological table. London: Printed for A. Linde [etc.], , 1758. Special Collections. Thordarson T 3323 oversize

Hooker, Sir William Jackson. Journal of a tour in Iceland in the summer of 1809. 2nd edition, with additions. London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1813. Vol. 1 of 2. The second volume is in the case entitled Natural History. Special Collections. Thordarson T 3319

Wall map of Iceland. Copenhagen: Published by the Geodetic Institute, 1952. On loan from Peter Gorman.