Directory of Icelandic Resources

Subcategories

Art and Literature from Iceland.

http://www.icestory.com/
Information about novels, books and works of Icelandic authors and painters. Featured artists are the writers Elías Snæland Jónsson, Úlfar Harri Elíasson and Anna Kristín Brynjúlfsdóttir and the painter Brynjúlfur Jónsson.
Birds in Death Throes

http://www.icestory.com/todeskampf.htm
Play by the writer Elías Snæland Jónsson from Reykjavik, Iceland. Information on actors with interviews and pictures from a performance in a theater in Dresden, Germany.
Halldór Kiljan Laxness Nobel Laureate

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1955/
Biography and acceptance speech.
Jónas Hallgrímsson: Selected Poetry and Prose

http://www.library.wisc.edu/etext/Jonas
50 works by the Icelandic poet and natural scientist Jónas Hallgrímsson (1807-1845), with Icelandic text, audio recordings, English translations, extensive commentaries, and a biography.
Jörmungrund

http://www.hi.is/~eybjorn/
Old Icelandic texts, primarily Eddaic and Skaldic poetry, with English translations, concordances, and commentaries.
Passion Hymns of Iceland

http://www.ccel.org/ccel/pilcher/passionhymns
Translations and background by C. V. Pilcher: etext at Christian Classics Ethereal Library.
The Chronicles of the Kings of Norway

http://omacl.org/Heimskringla/
An online English translation of The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway (or Heimskringla) by Snorri Sturluson.

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