{"product_id":"segu-mjer-a-sunnan-83277-49436","title":"Tell me from the south # 83277","description":"Tell me from the south. Poem by Hulda. \u003cbr\u003eHulda (Unnur Benediktsdóttir Bjarklind) was born in August 1881. She published a number of books but is best known for her national holiday poem, which is most often known as Hver á sér fegra föðurland (Who Has a More Beautiful Fatherland), and which, together with a poem by Jóhannes úr Kötlar, 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. \u003cbr\u003eUnnur 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 Þingeyingi Book Society was located, among other things, and received a good education from her parents and home tutors. She also studied privately in Reykjavík from 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003eShe began writing at a young age, and her first poems were published in print in November 1901, when she was twenty, in the women's magazine Framsókn, under the pseudonym Hulda, which she used thereafter. In the following years, she published a few poems in magazines. They were considered innovative and beautifully written, and immediately attracted the attention of poets such as Matthías Jochumsson, Þorsteinn Erlingsson, and Einar Benediktsson, who wrote poems for her and encouraged her to do more. Hulda's first book of poetry, Kvæði, was published in 1909. A total of eighteen books were published after her - poetry books, short stories, a novel in two volumes, fairy tales, and more.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eAlthough Hulda's work received good reviews and her output was high, despite her hectic housewifery and difficult illness, Hulda was ill for many of the last years of her life and was often bedridden, so she was not considered one of the nation's better-known poets. It was therefore a great surprise to many when her poem was one of two that won first prize in a poetry competition held to mark Iceland's independence in 1944, and the poem was performed at the festival. The poems were submitted under a pseudonym, but rumors later circulated that the jury had intended to let Davíð Stefánsson receive the prize (he did not actually submit a poem to the competition) and had thought that Hver á sér fegra föðurland was his work, since the envelope in which the poem arrived had a postmark from Akureyri. However, that story is unlikely to hold up, as Hulda and her husband had moved to Reykjavík in 1935.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eHulda died in Reykjavík in 1946 after a long and difficult illness, at the age of 64.","brand":"Bókin.is","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51123760300360,"sku":"OSC-49436","price":4900.0,"currency_code":"ISK","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0916\/4029\/9848\/files\/54938.jpg?v=1754766322","url":"https:\/\/www.bokin.is\/en\/products\/segu-mjer-a-sunnan-83277-49436","provider":"bokin.is","version":"1.0","type":"link"}