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• Main Authors: Stefán Karlsson, Rory Mcturk
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Foote; Örnólfur; Reykjavík; Tungan
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.683.9825; http://vsnrweb-publications.org.uk/Icelandic_language_corrected_2013.pdf

‘Tungan’, the work translated here, first appeared as a chapter in Íslensk þjóðmenning, vol. VI (Reykjavík: Þjóðsaga, 1989), 1–54, and has since been republished, with minor alterations and additions (including the numbering of sections and subsections) in Stafkrókar (2000; see Biblio graphy), 19–75. The present translation incorporates the changes made in the 2000 version, even though my work on it was mainly done in 1997–99. Stefán Karlsson kindly gave me an offprint of ‘Tungan ’ in September 1995. The idea of translating it first occurred to me in the spring of 1997, and I am grateful to Örnólfur Thorsson, who was Visiting Fellow in Ice landic Studies at the University of Leeds in 1996–97, for help and advice in the early stages of my work on the translation. I had completed about half of it (to the end of section 1, ‘The language itself’) by the summer of 1998, and translated the remainder during my year as Visiting Professor at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, in 1998–99. The translation has since been read in draft by Richard Perkins, Peter Foote, Desmond Slay, Michael