Manuscript culture in Icelandic immigrant communities in North America is examined through the case study of an immigrant-scribe, Albert Jóhannesson (1847–1921), who left Iceland as an adult in 1884 and eventually settled in the community of Hecla ...

Guðmundur Erlendsson of Fell in Sléttuhlíð (c. 1595–1670) was one of the leading poets of seventeenth-century Iceland. No man is an island, however, nor are islands populated exclusively by men. The thesis examines how Guðmundur Erlendsson’s poetry and ...