Word: icelander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
...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...
...Capt. Wolfgang von Gronau last week was making his second flight from Germany to the U. S. He flew a Dornier Wai flying boat and was accompanied by the same three youths who, as students, made up his crew last year when he astonished everyone by pressing on from Iceland (his supposed destination) to New York Harbor (TIME, Sept. 8). This year he had hoped to be the first airman to cross the Greenland ice cap, but Cramer accomplished that feat last fortnight on his way east. After several weeks exploration of Greenland von Gronau planned to fly via Baffin...
...more than a week before he was discovered. From Detroit he flew his Diesel-powered plane to Hudson Bay, Great Whale, Wakeham Bay; thence to Pang-nirtung, Baffin Island; across the Davis Strait and across the Greenland ice cap-a route never before negotiated by airplane to Iceland; dropped down to the sea with engine trouble, made repairs, flew on to the Faroe Islands; the Shetlands; again eluded observers...