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In my homeland. Stories of Icelandic people. By Hulda.
Hulda (Unnur Benediktsdóttir Bjarklind, poet and writer. She published a number of books but is best known for her national holiday poem, which is most often known under the title Hver á sér fegra föðurland, and which, together with a poem by Jóhannes úr Kötlam, won a prize in a poetry competition held on the occasion of the establishment of the republic in 1944. She also played a major role in reviving hymns as a literary genre.
Hulda was the daughter of Benedikt Jónsson, a farmer and social activist in Auður in Laxárdalur in South Þingeyjarsýsla, and his wife Guðný Halldórsdóttir. She grew up with them in a large cultural home, where the Þingeyinga Book Society was located, among other things, and received a good education from her parents and home tutors. She also studied privately in Reykjavík in 1903-1904. Unnur married Sigurður Sigfússon from Halldórsstaðir in Reykjadalur in 1905 and they took the family name Bjarklind. Sigurður was for a long time the director of a merchant association in Húsavík and they lived there.
Unnur always read a lot and sought out knowledge. Among other things, she traveled abroad twice to learn about the culture and customs of other nations, which was rare for Icelandic housewives at the time, first to England and Denmark in 1910-1911 and then to the Nordic countries and England in 1922. Among other things, she spent time with the friend of Iceland, Professor William A. Craigie, in Oxford.
Hulda (Unnur Benediktsdóttir Bjarklind, poet and writer. She published a number of books but is best known for her national holiday poem, which is most often known under the title Hver á sér fegra föðurland, and which, together with a poem by Jóhannes úr Kötlam, won a prize in a poetry competition held on the occasion of the establishment of the republic in 1944. She also played a major role in reviving hymns as a literary genre.
Hulda was the daughter of Benedikt Jónsson, a farmer and social activist in Auður in Laxárdalur in South Þingeyjarsýsla, and his wife Guðný Halldórsdóttir. She grew up with them in a large cultural home, where the Þingeyinga Book Society was located, among other things, and received a good education from her parents and home tutors. She also studied privately in Reykjavík in 1903-1904. Unnur married Sigurður Sigfússon from Halldórsstaðir in Reykjadalur in 1905 and they took the family name Bjarklind. Sigurður was for a long time the director of a merchant association in Húsavík and they lived there.
Unnur always read a lot and sought out knowledge. Among other things, she traveled abroad twice to learn about the culture and customs of other nations, which was rare for Icelandic housewives at the time, first to England and Denmark in 1910-1911 and then to the Nordic countries and England in 1922. Among other things, she spent time with the friend of Iceland, Professor William A. Craigie, in Oxford.