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Title Western Icelandic short stories / translated by Kirsten Wolf and Árný Hjaltadóttir
Published Winnipeg, Man. : University of Manitoba Press, ©1992

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 139 pages)
Contents Stones for bread / Arnrưn fra Felli -- The sentence / Bergþor E. Johnson -- Fellow students / Fređrik J. Bergmann -- "Greater love hath no man than this--" / Grimur Grimsson -- How I defeated the local board / Gunnsteinn Eyjơlfsson -- An Icelandic giant / Jơhann Magnưs Bjarnason -- ʻAlfur of Borg / Jơhannes P. Palsson -- Havarŏur from Krơkur / Kveldưlfur -- Motes in a sun-beam / Stephan G. Stephansson -- In days of yore Þorsteinn Þ. Þorsteinsson -- When the footprints become covered with snow / Örn
Summary Collection of stories written by first and second generation authors from the western part of Iceland, who emigrated to North America, particularly Manitoba
Notes Translation of 12 Icelandic-Canadian stories originally published individually between 1895 and 1930
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Print version record
Subject Short stories, Icelandic -- Canada -- Translations into English
Icelandic fiction -- Canada -- 20th century -- Translations into English
FICTION -- General.
Icelandic fiction
Short stories, Icelandic
Canada
Genre/Form Short stories, Icelandic
short stories.
Short stories, Canadian
Short stories
Translations
Short stories.
Nouvelles.
Form Electronic book
Author Árný Hjaltadóttir, 1950-
Wolf, Kirsten, 1959-
ISBN 0887556280
9780887556289
9780887553912
0887553915