Word: icelanders
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...verses in this number though slight is worth while, especially the song just below the editorial and the lines on "The Great Iceland Glacier...
...articles in literature are "Books and Reading in Iceland" by W. E. Mead, "Shakespeare and Copyright" by Horace Davis, and "Thomas William Parsons" by Richard Hovey. Besides these articles there are several more all of which are worthy of note, especially that entitled "White Mountain Forests in Peril" by J. H. Ward. The poetry contributed is "The Eavesdropper" by Bliss Carman and "Hegesias" by Edith M. Thomas, both of which are suggestive and full of hidden meaning...
Professor G. L. Kittredge spoke informally at the meeting of the Christian Association last evening, on the Heathen Scandinavian's Idea of a Man. He referred to the Scandinavian of the year 1000, about the date that Iceland was converted to Christianity. We are very apt to think of the man of that time as entirely different from the man of today; on careful study, however, we find the similarity of his nature to our own is really remarkable...
...Gunnar strikes her and she says she'll not forget the blow. Gunnar is warned not to kill twice in the same lineage, but his cousin Mord treacherously causes him to kill the son of a father whom he has already killed. Gunnar is outlawed and refusing to leave Iceland is killed. His wife remembering the blow on the cheek refuses to help him. Kolskegg became captain of the warring guard at Constantinople...
...Icelandic Saga. Family life in Iceland. Njal's Saga. Illustrated Lecture. Professor Charles Sprague Smith. Harvard...