Vínlandsgátan
Reykjavik: Mal og Menning, 1997. First edition, 8vo, pp. 261, [1]; text in Icelandic; text illustrations and 16 pages of color plates; original full black cloth gilt; corner bumped, a few pages with underlining and marginal notes in pencil likely by the Russian-American linguist, etymologist, and poet Anatoly Liberman; very good in edgeworn dust jacket. Páll Bergþórsson is the author of The Wineland Millennium: Saga and Evidence (Vínlandsgátan), which was nominated for the Icelandic Literature Prize in 1997. From 1989 to 1993 Bergþórsson served as director of the Icelandic Meteorological Office. After his retirement, Bergþórsson embarked on four expeditions between 1996 and 2002 to examine local conditions in relationship to the Icelandic explorers in America. Item #72129
Price: $35.00
