© Gunnar Tómasson 22 July 2017 I. Iceland Settlement Myth¹ (Landnámabók, Part I, Ch. 9) 838109 16207 = Þá er Ísland fannst ok byggðist af Nóregi, 19035 = var Adríanús páfi í Róma ok Jóhannes eftir hann, 23567 = sá er inn fimmti var með því nafni í postulligu sæti, 21325 = en Hlöðver Hlöðvesson […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 21 July 2017 I.The Genius Of Antiquity In 1598 an unknown author of considerable talent and great charm wrote a series of satires, which he called Scialetheia, or A Shadow of Truth. In his snapdragon verses he described the vanity of the times. Staying late after the play at the Curtain, he […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 20 July 2017 I. Snorri Sturluson’s Advice to Young Poets (Skáldskaparmál, 8. kafli) 197920 16349 = En þetta er nú at segja ungum skáldum, 15868 = þeim er girnast at nema mál skáldskapar 16723 = ok heyja sér orðfjölða með fornum heitum 15251 = eða girnast þeir at kunna skilja þat, 8474 […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 19 July 2017 I. Alexander Pope – Messiah Poem¹ (1712) 192670 Alpha 13829 = Ye nymphs of Solyma! begin the song, 19614 = To heavenly themes sublimer strains belong. 18799 = The mossy fountains, and the sylvan shades, 15928 = The dreams of Pindus, and the Aonian maids, 17779 = Delight no […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 17. júlí 2017 I. Út vil ek. (Íslendinga saga, 143. kafli) 407189 16506 = Um vetrinn eftir Örlygsstaðafund 16980 = váru þeir með Skúla hertoga í Niðarósi 31481 = Snorri Sturluson ok Órækja sonr hans, ok Þorleifr Þórðarson, 19322 = en Þórðr kakali var í Björgyn með Hákoni konungi. 12685 = En […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 17 July 2017 I. Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters (Macbeth, Act I, Sc. i – First Folio) 164696 19939 = Thunder and Lightning. Enter three Witches. First 13740 = When shall we three meet againe? 14117 = In Thunder, Lightning, or in Raine? Second 13522 = When the Hurley-burley’s done, 16533 = […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 16 July 2017 I. Enter Brutus in his Orchard (Cæsar, Act II, Sc. i. First Folio) 1565821 13539 = Enter Brutus in his Orchard. Brutus 8706 = What, Lucius, hoe? 18424 = I cannot, by the progresse of the Starres, 18754 = Giue guesse how neere to day. Lucius, I say? […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 15 July 2017 I. How does the Queene? (Hamlet, Act V, Sc. ii. First Folio) 1808115 Hamlet 9442 = How does the Queene? King 12228 = She sounds to see them bleede. Queen 10946 = No, no, the drinke, the drinke. 6379 = Oh my deere Hamlet, 8488 = the drinke, the […]
© Gunnar Tómasson Bastille Day 14 July 2017 Preface Jacob’s Ladder (Gen. Ch. 28) 28:10 And Jacob went out from Beer-sheba, and went toward Haran. 28:11 And hee lighted upon a certaine place, and taried there all night, because the sunne was set; and hee tooke of the stones of that place, and put them […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 13 July 2017 Background on Íslendingabók (Wikipedia) Íslendingabók (Book of Icelanders; Latin: Libellus Islandorum) is a historical work dealing with early Icelandic history. The author was an Icelandic priest, Ari Þorgilsson, working in the early 12th century. The work originally existed in two different versions but only the younger one has survived. […]
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