Routes and landings in Icelandic fisheries I # 88621
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Routes and landings in Icelandic fisheries I. From Jökulsá to Reykjanes. Compiled and recorded by Oddur V. Gíslason.
This is the first issue of Leiðir og lendingar by Odd v. Gíslason. A great rarity.
Very good copy, unbound. Very rare.
Oddur Vigfús Gíslason (April 8, 1836 – January 10, 1911) was an Icelandic theologian, sailor, and activist. He fought for a long time for Icelandic sailors to learn to swim, also for sailors to carry a buoy, which was a hollow buoy with fish oil in it and leaked the fish oil into the sea and thereby calmed the waves, and various other safety measures for sailors. Oddur advocated for sailors to take up sailing on bulkheads instead of rowboats. Oddur has been seen as a pioneer in maritime accident prevention in Iceland.
Oddur was a pastor, first at Lund in Borgarfjörður from 1875, then at Stað in Grindavík, where he remained from 1878 to 1894 when he moved to Canada and took up pastoral work in New Iceland until he moved to Chicago and began studying to be a doctor in his old age, graduating in his eighties.
Oddur was active in publishing, including the first English textbook in Iceland, numerous publications dedicated to sailors, and in 1892 he published a publication called Sæbjörg, which discussed various issues that he felt could be improved in Iceland. He died on January 10, 1911, at the age of 74, and was buried in Brookside Cemetery in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
The rescue ship of the rescue team Þorbjörn in Grindavík is named after Oddur.
This is the first issue of Leiðir og lendingar by Odd v. Gíslason. A great rarity.
Very good copy, unbound. Very rare.
Oddur Vigfús Gíslason (April 8, 1836 – January 10, 1911) was an Icelandic theologian, sailor, and activist. He fought for a long time for Icelandic sailors to learn to swim, also for sailors to carry a buoy, which was a hollow buoy with fish oil in it and leaked the fish oil into the sea and thereby calmed the waves, and various other safety measures for sailors. Oddur advocated for sailors to take up sailing on bulkheads instead of rowboats. Oddur has been seen as a pioneer in maritime accident prevention in Iceland.
Oddur was a pastor, first at Lund in Borgarfjörður from 1875, then at Stað in Grindavík, where he remained from 1878 to 1894 when he moved to Canada and took up pastoral work in New Iceland until he moved to Chicago and began studying to be a doctor in his old age, graduating in his eighties.
Oddur was active in publishing, including the first English textbook in Iceland, numerous publications dedicated to sailors, and in 1892 he published a publication called Sæbjörg, which discussed various issues that he felt could be improved in Iceland. He died on January 10, 1911, at the age of 74, and was buried in Brookside Cemetery in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
The rescue ship of the rescue team Þorbjörn in Grindavík is named after Oddur.