With national poets by the highway # 87617
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With folk poets by the highway. Compiled by Jón R. Hjálmarsson.
This innovative travel guide follows the ring road and visits the birthplaces of various great poets. Their lives are recounted and woven into the narrative with poems, some of which have become an integral part of the national consciousness. At the same time, the book's author, Jón R. Hjálmarsson, discusses various remarkable things that the traveler encounters.
The history of the nation's poets is often amazing and contains glorious victories, deep sorrows, unbridled happiness and quiet sorrow. The poems are of various types, as the poets are different and from various eras, from the 17th century to the twentieth. However, they have in common that they are among the best that has been written in the Icelandic language.
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This innovative travel guide follows the ring road and visits the birthplaces of various great poets. Their lives are recounted and woven into the narrative with poems, some of which have become an integral part of the national consciousness. At the same time, the book's author, Jón R. Hjálmarsson, discusses various remarkable things that the traveler encounters.
The history of the nation's poets is often amazing and contains glorious victories, deep sorrows, unbridled happiness and quiet sorrow. The poems are of various types, as the poets are different and from various eras, from the 17th century to the twentieth. However, they have in common that they are among the best that has been written in the Icelandic language.
(Cover text)