Skrifarar sem skreyttu handrit sín – Alþýðulist og skreytingar í handritum síðari alda Translated Icelandic Literature a journey from Iceland to

a journey from Iceland to America and the memoirs of Þuríður Guðmundsdóttir from the North of Iceland

Introduced with a personal

Fantasticly passionate translator as well author of poetry

ISBN 9789935119056

Skrifarar sem skreyttu handrit sín – Alþýðulist og skreytingar í handritum síðari alda Translated Icelandic Literature a journey from Iceland toA marvelous book that covers illustrations and graphic material in Icelandic paper manuscripts from the seventeenth century and to the twentieth century. For the most part these illustrations were made by common people. People that were not traditionally educated as artists and often lived in poverty and under difficult situations. The book provides an unique viewpoint into Icelandic art history, a view that is often forgotten and had an impact on