In addition to publication in the United States, Tom Swift books have been published extensively in England, and translated into Norwegian, French, Icelandic, and Finnish.

His books have been translated into Swedish, Danish, German, Hungarian, and Icelandic as well as French.

Magnusson translated a variety of books from modern Icelandic and Old Norse into English.

The books were highly successful, and were eventually translated into Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Flemish, German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish.

Category: Icelandic books

Other books by Sweet include An Icelandic Primer with Grammar, Notes and Glossary ( 1886 ), The History of Language ( 1900 ; 1995: ISBN 81-85231-04-4 ; 2007: ISBN 1-4326-6993-1 ), and a number of other works he edited for the Early English Text Society.

It specializes in books published in Danish, Finnish, Icelandic, Norwegian, and Swedish.

His books have been translated into several European languages such as English, Russian, German, Icelandic, Polish, Italian and French.

The first national library of Iceland, Íslands stiftisbókasafn, was established at the instigation of Danish antiquarian Carl Christian Rafn and the Icelandic Literary Society in 1818, and the first books of the library were gifts from Icelanders and Danes.

In 1979 this was replaced by the Icelandic National Bibliography, containing an overview of Icelandic published books each year.

During his time as bishop, Guðbrandur edited and published at least 80 books, including the Bible in Icelandic and the Icelandic Lawbook or legal code.

It was the Celtic side of his interests that led to his first books – a volume of ancient Irish tales, Irskar fornsögur ( 1953 ), and another of Gaelic poetry from the Hebrides, Söngvar frá Sudureyjum ( 1955 ), both translated into Icelandic – as well as to his 1996 book on the Celts and Celtic influence in Iceland, Keltar á Islandi.

Dalene Matthee ( 13 October 1938-20 February 2005 ) was a South African author who wrote mainly in Afrikaans ; her books were translated into fourteen other languages, including English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Hebrew and Icelandic.

Bad Taste ( known as Smekkleysa in Icelandic, literally Tastelessness ) is one of Iceland ’ s most important record labels ; located in Reykjavík and known worldwide for being home to The Sugarcubes, it also publishes poetry books, short films, greeting cards and Icelandic gifts.

The books, as of 2005, have been translated into more than thirty languages, including Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Swedish, Spanish, Turkish and Ukrainian.

Þorsteinn wrote 12 books on philosophy and philology, including An Essay on Man ( 1970 ), An Essay on the World ( 1992 ), Thinking in Icelandic ( 1996 ) and Justice and Injustice ( 1998 ).

The primary sources regarding Asgard come from the Prose Edda, written in the 13th century by Icelandic Snorri Sturluson, and the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from a basis of much older Skaldic poetry.

The term Edda ( Old Norse Edda, plural Eddur ) applies to the Old Norse Poetic Edda and Prose Edda, both of which were written down in Iceland during the 13th century in Icelandic, although they contain material from earlier traditional sources, reaching into the Viking Age.

The Poetic Edda, also known as Sæmundar Edda or the Elder Edda, is a collection of Old Norse poems from the Icelandic medieval manuscript Codex Regius (" Royal Book ").

In the late Icelandic Eddas, Tyr is portrayed, alternately, as the son of Odin ( Prose Edda ) or of Hymir ( Poetic Edda ), while the origins of his name and his possible relationship to Tuisto ( see Tacitus ' Germania ) suggest he was once considered the father of the gods and head of the pantheon, since his name is ultimately cognate to that of * Dyeus ( cf.

Völuspá ( Old Norse Vǫluspá, Prophecy of the Völva ( Seeress ); Modern Icelandic, reconstructed Old Norse ) is the first and best known poem of the Poetic Edda.

The Poetic Edda is a collection of Old Norse poems primarily preserved in the Icelandic mediaeval manuscript Codex Regius.

The Poetic Edda: Translated from the Icelandic with an Introduction and Notes.

Cōdex Rēgius ( which is Latin for " Royal Book ", in Icelandic Konungsbók ) ( GKS 2365 4to ) is an Icelandic manuscript ( See also Codex ) in which the Poetic Edda is preserved.

They are based on virtues found in historical Norse paganism, gleaned from various sources including the Poetic Edda ( particularly the Hávamál and the Sigrdrífumál ), and as evident in the Icelandic Sagas ).

The story was later incorporated as an episode of the Saga of Óláfr Tryggvason in the medieval Icelandic manuscript Flateyjarbók which contains several poems from the Poetic Edda.

Svanhild is the beautiful daughter of Sigurd and Gudrun in Germanic mythology, whose grisly death at the hands of her jealous royal husband Ermanaric was told in many northern European stories, including the Icelandic Poetic Edda ( Hamðismál and Guðrúnarhvöt ), Prose Edda and the Volsunga Saga ; the Norwegian Ragnarsdrápa ; the Danish Gesta Danorum ; and the German Nibelungenlied and Annals of Quedlinburg.

The Prose Edda, sometimes referred to as the Younger Edda or Snorri's Edda is an Icelandic manual of poetics which also contains many mythological stories.

The word was adopted into English in the nineteenth century from medieval Icelandic treatises on poetics, in particular the Prose Edda of Snorri Sturluson, and derives ultimately from the Old Norse verb kenna “ know, recognise ; perceive, feel ; show ; teach ; etc .”, as used in the expression kenna við “ to name after ; to express thing in terms of ”, “ name after ; refer to in terms of ”, and kenna til “ qualify by, make into a kenning by adding ”.

According to Norse mythology as contained in the thirteenth-century Icelandic work Prose Edda, the lake was created by the goddess Gefjon when she tricked Gylfi, the Swedish king of Gylfaginning.

A story told by the thirteenth-century Icelandic mythographer Snorri Sturluson in his Prose Edda about the origin of Lake Mälaren was probably originally about Lake Vänern: the Swedish king Gylfi promised a woman, Gefjun, as much land as four oxen could plough in a day and a night, but she used oxen from the land of the giants, and moreover uprooted the land and dragged it into the sea, where it became the island of Zealand.

Icelandic has the best preserved inflectional system of the Norse languages and the Prose Edda was also written in old Icelandic.

* Icelandic poetry or The Edda of Sæmund ( 1797 )

Gylfaginning ( Old Icelandic " the tricking of Gylfi ") follows the Prologue in the Prose Edda.

Skáldskaparmál ( Old Icelandic " the language of poetry ") is the third section of the Prose Edda, and consists of a dialogue between Ægir, a god associated with the sea, and Bragi, a skaldic god, in which both Nordic mythology and discourse on the nature of poetry are intertwined.

Háttatal ( Old Icelandic " list of verse-forms ") is the last section of the Prose Edda.

The Háttatal ( c. 20, 000 words ) is the last section of the Prose Edda composed by the Icelandic poet, politician, and historian Snorri Sturluson.

He had been attracted in his school days to the study of Scandinavian history and literature, and he was closely allied with Professor Guðbrandur Vigfússon ( d. 1889 ), whom he assisted in his Icelandic Prose Reader ( 1897 ), Corpus Poeticum Boreale ( 1887 ), and Origines Islandicae ( 1905 ), and in the editing of the Grimm Centenary papers ( 1886 ).

In Icelandic collection of texts from 1220 Prose Edda in the book Gylfaginning, Elli defeats Thor in a wrestling match.

Prominent writers were Ari Þorgilsson, father of Icelandic historical writing ; Snorri Sturluson, author of the famous Prose Edda, a collection of Norse myths ; and Hallgrímur Pétursson, author of Iceland's beloved Passion Hymns.

Tom Shippey has identified the concept of Tolkien's " Light elves " and " Dark elves " as being inspired by the medieval Icelandic Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson which distinguishes between ljósálfar ( light-elves ) and dökkálfar ( dark-elves ).

The Icelandic saga Prose Edda names Thor ( or Tror ) as a fair-haired chieftain ancestral to the Germanic peoples, and a king of Thrace.

His little Icelandic Prose Reader ( with F. York Powell ) ( 1879 ) furnishes a path to a sound knowledge of Icelandic.

" Old Icelandic Prose ," tr.