7 best short stories - Iceland

7 best short stories - Iceland
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Icelanders have the highest literacy rates in the world. This is largely due to the rich literary tradition developed in this region. In this book, August Nemo brings seven short stories from different authors and periods so that you have an interesting overview of the story in Iceland.
– The Story Of Audunn And The Bear by Anonymous. – A Dry Spell By Einar H. Kvaran. – The Old Hay by Guðmundur Friðjónsson. – When I Was On The Frigate by Jón Trausti. – Father And Son by Gunnar Gunnarsson. – The Fox Skin by Gudmundur G. Hagalin. – New Iceland by Halldor Kiljan Laxness. For more books with interesting themes, be sure to check the other books in this collection!

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Steingrímur J. Þorsteinsson. 7 best short stories - Iceland

Introduction

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The Story Of Audunn And The Bear

I

II

III

IV

A Dry Spell

The Old Hay

When I Was On The Frigate

Father And Son

The Fox Skin

New Iceland

Notas

About the Publisher

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By Steigrumur J. Porsteinsson

Of the seven Icelandic short stories which appear here, the first was probably written early in the thirteenth century, while the rest all date from the early twentieth century. It might therefore be supposed that the earliest of these stories was written in a language more or less unintelligible to modern Icelanders, and that there was a gap of many centuries in the literary production of the nation. This, however, is not the case.

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Nowadays, four fifths of the population live in villages and townships—where some light industry has sprung up—and, in Reykjavík alone, more than two fifths of the population are concentrated.

In the last fifty years, the occupations of the people and their culture have changed from being in many respects medieval, and have assumed modern forms. The earlier turfbuilt farmhouses have now been replaced by comfortable concrete buildings which get their electricity from a source of water power virtually inexhaustible. Many of these,—e. g. the majority of houses in Reykjavík—are heated by water from hot springs, so that the purity of the northern air is seldom spoilt by smoke from coal-fires. The reliable Icelandic pony—so dear to the farmer in New Iceland, and for long known as "a man's best friend"—has now for the most part come to serve the well-to-do who can afford to use it for their joy-rides, its place in farmwork being taken by modern agricultural machinery. As a means of travel it has been replaced by a host of motorcars, and by aeroplanes, which in Iceland are as commonly used in going from one part of the country to another as railway trains in other countries. In fact, it has not been found feasible to build railways in Iceland. Besides this, a large number of airliners make daily use of Icelandic airfields on transatlantic flights. What with most other nations has been a slow and gradual process lasting several centuries, has in Iceland come about in more or less a revolutionary way. It is therefore not to be wondered at that there should have been a certain instability in the development of the urban and economic life of the country. In this field, however, there appear to be signs of consolidation.

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