Sources
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- http://www.mbl.is/mm/gagnasafn/grein.html?grein_id=1100890
- http://www.mbl.is/mm/gagnasafn/grein.html?grein_id=100063
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Icelandic people of American descent make up around 1% of Iceland's population. The first Americans known to have settled in a large group came during World War II, in the form of servicemen.
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Hrafnagaldr Óðins or Forspjallsljóð is an Icelandic poem in the style of the Poetic Edda. It is preserved only in late paper manuscripts. In his influential 1867 edition of the Poetic Edda, Sophus Bugge reasoned that the poem was a 17th-century work, composed as an introduction to Baldrs draumar. Since then it has not been included in editions of the Poetic Edda and not been extensively studied. But prior to Bugge's work the poem was considered a part of the Poetic Edda and included, for example, in the English translations of A. S. Cottle (1797) and Benjamin Thorpe (1866) as well as Karl Simrock's influential German translation (1851). In 1852, William and Mary Howitt characterized it as "amongst the most deeply poetical and singular hymns of the Edda".
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Erlendur Guðmundsson í Unuhúsi.
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