on 8/31/02 9:23 AM, Libby Hart at [log in to unmask] wrote:
> Arni's list of writers would be very similar to my own,
> with the exception of Hallgrímur Pétursson, Jónas Hallgrímsson, Hannes
> Sigfússon and Sigfús Dadason. (Arni, I'd love to know if there are any
> English translations for these writers).
Sigfus Dadason and Hannes Sigfusson will only be found in anthologies of
Icelandic poetry in English (there are such things). I have a vague memory
of a 1970s anthology translated by Alan Boucher, and a 1980s one translated
by Sigurdur A Magnusson, but unfortunately no details of the publications.
Neither is very good, as I recall. You're more likely to find either poet in
German or French or any of the Scandinavian languages.
For Jónas Hallgrímsson see Dick Ringler's exceptional site dedicated to the
bard at http://www.library.wisc.edu/etext/Jonas/Jonas.html
It features a generous selection of fine English translations of both poetry
and prose.
I scanned the Icelandic radio's Hallgrimur Pétursson Web and found only the
following English publications of his Passion Hymns, none of which feature
his wonderful worldly poetry. There's even an Australian publication here:
Hymns of the Passion. Meditations on the Passion of Christ by Hallgrímur
Pétursson. Translated from the Icelandic by Arthur Charles Gook. Reykjavík,
Hallgríms Church, 1966. 2nd printing. Reykjavík, Hallgríms Church, 1978.
Selections from The Passion Hymns:
The Passion-Hymns of Iceland. Being Translations from the Passion-Hymns of
Hallgrim Petursson and from the Hymns of the Modern Icelandic Hymn Book
together with an Introduction by C. Venn Pilcher. Foreword by H. C. G.
Moule. London, Robert Scott, 1913.
Meditations on the Cross. From Iceland’s Poet of the Passion. Translated by
C. Venn Pilcher. [Toronto 1921].
Icelandic Meditations on the Passion. Being Selections from the
Passion-Hymns of Hallgrim Petursson. Translated from the Icelandic and
Arranged as a Series of Meditations for Each Day of the Month by Charles
Venn Pilcher. New York, Longmans, Green, 1923.
Icelandic Christian Classics. The Lay of the Sun, The Lily, The
Passion-Hymns, The Millennial Hymn. Translated in Whole or Part with
Introductions. By Charles Venn Pilcher. Melbourne, Geoffrey Cumberlege,
1950.
Best
Árni
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