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Poetry and various other things. After Jón Þorleifsson, priest at Ólafsvöllur.
In Baldur, 1st year, 9th issue, 1868, the publication of a book of poems by Reverend Jón á Ólafsvöllur is discussed. It says:
BOOK ACCOUNT.
Poems and various other things by Jón Þorleifsson, priest at Ólafsvöllur. Kaupmnanah. 1867, published by Páll Sveinsson.
We will not spend much time on whether these poems are worth publishing, and cost a fortune. They are many wonderful and beautiful, but completely lack any deeper poetic power and marrow. We intend to show and show from within that they may be worth reading on occasion, but hardly significant enough to collect them in a book and publish. "From Everyday Life" is wonderful, what it is; but it is difficult to say how the author would have gotten away with it. The story is wonderful, what it is, and it does not detract from it much, although various pretense and foreignness creep in; they do not matter much.
The articles are very good, I would almost have been tempted to say excellent, especially the article about Olaf with the hat. The book's paper and printing are all-purpose, but the publisher (the one who prepared the manuscript for printing and saw to the printing) has done his job more poorly than he should have. For, in addition to the fact that the book is without proofreading, like most Icelandic books printed in Höfn, and which the younger Icelanders there are supposed to see to the printing of, it is a scandal and a shame that the publisher should not have been more familiar with the Passion hymns than to have a verse from them slipped into the hymns of St. Jón. The verse "thá þú þáð þú þáð í gúðshús inn" is probably known to every barn boy in Iceland, but the national poet of Iceland sees to the printing of this poem, and yet is no more familiar with the writings of Hallgrímur Pjetursson than to tarn? Who would have thought that?
In Baldur, 1st year, 9th issue, 1868, the publication of a book of poems by Reverend Jón á Ólafsvöllur is discussed. It says:
BOOK ACCOUNT.
Poems and various other things by Jón Þorleifsson, priest at Ólafsvöllur. Kaupmnanah. 1867, published by Páll Sveinsson.
We will not spend much time on whether these poems are worth publishing, and cost a fortune. They are many wonderful and beautiful, but completely lack any deeper poetic power and marrow. We intend to show and show from within that they may be worth reading on occasion, but hardly significant enough to collect them in a book and publish. "From Everyday Life" is wonderful, what it is; but it is difficult to say how the author would have gotten away with it. The story is wonderful, what it is, and it does not detract from it much, although various pretense and foreignness creep in; they do not matter much.
The articles are very good, I would almost have been tempted to say excellent, especially the article about Olaf with the hat. The book's paper and printing are all-purpose, but the publisher (the one who prepared the manuscript for printing and saw to the printing) has done his job more poorly than he should have. For, in addition to the fact that the book is without proofreading, like most Icelandic books printed in Höfn, and which the younger Icelanders there are supposed to see to the printing of, it is a scandal and a shame that the publisher should not have been more familiar with the Passion hymns than to have a verse from them slipped into the hymns of St. Jón. The verse "thá þú þáð þú þáð í gúðshús inn" is probably known to every barn boy in Iceland, but the national poet of Iceland sees to the printing of this poem, and yet is no more familiar with the writings of Hallgrímur Pjetursson than to tarn? Who would have thought that?