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Western Icelandic short stories

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    Publisher:
    University of Manitoba Press, 1992

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    Date:
    Created
    1992
    Summary:

    Collection of stories written by first and second generation authors from the western part of Iceland, who emigrated to North America, particularly Manitoba.

    Contents:
    • Stones for bread / Arnrưn fra Felli
    • The sentence / Bergþor E. Johnson
    • Fellow students / Fređrik J. Bergmann
    • "Greater love hath no man than this
    • " / Grimur Grimsson
    • How I defeated the local board / Gunnsteinn Eyjơlfsson
    • An Icelandic giant / Jơhann Magnưs Bjarnason
    • ʻAlfur of Borg / Jơhannes P. Palsson
    • Havarŏur from Krơkur / Kveldưlfur
    • Motes in a sun-beam / Stephan G. Stephansson
    • In days of yore Þorsteinn Þ. Þorsteinsson
    • When the footprints become covered with snow / Örn.
    Genre:
    Canadian fiction, Short stories
    Subject(s): Short stories, Icelandic
    Original Publisher: Winnipeg, Man., University of Manitoba Press
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 0887556280, 9780887556289, 9780887553912, 0887553915, 9780887550133