New Works on Iceland and the Norse World

N.B. Several of these “new” arrivals are transfers, fully catalogued and eligible for circulation, from the pre-LC-class component of the collection.

This transfer project is an ongoing access enhancement initiative.

Where in Olin Library...?

The Fiske Icelandic Collection in Olin Library

The Fiske Icelandic Collection, an outstanding bequest from Daniel Willard Fiske, Cornell’s first university librarian, has always included holdings in contemporary as well as antiquarian books. Acquisitions in modern Icelandic literature, the culture and society of modern Iceland and the criticism of Old Norse-Icelandic sagas are active and ongoing.

 

 

On a hiking trail from Þórsmörk up to Fimmvörðuhals

Image created and graciously provided by Danielle Cudmore

Circulating books in the Icelandic Collection are now integrated into the Olin Library stacks. Catalogue records identifying these books are flagged distinctly:

 

Author/Creator:

Steinn Steinarr, 1908-1958.

Uniform Title:

Poems

Title:

Ljóðasafn / Steinn Steinarr.

Published:

Reykjavík : Vaka-Helgafell, 2000.

Description:

296 p. ; 22 cm.

   
   

   

Location:

Olin Library

Call Number:

Icelandic

 

PT7509.296.T39 A17 2000

   

Status:

Not Charged

 

--and the Icelandic designation can be incorporated into keyword searching to retrieve multiple items belonging to the collection. Thus the circulating component of the Fiske Icelandic Collection is a virtual collection of its own—but contributes to the serendipity of the Olin stacks.

A quick guide to concentrations by classification range in the circulating Icelandic Collection follows, but expect the unexpected: works on Iceland in Icelandic and many other languages can appear anywhere in the stacks.

 

BL860-870 Norse mythology (Olin Library, 7th floor)

 

DL65 Vikings (Olin Library, 5th floor)

 

E105 Norse exploration of America (Olin Library, 5th floor)

 

DL301-398 Icelandic history, local history and government (Olin Library, 5th  floor)

 

PT7001-7338 Old Norse-Icelandic literature (Olin Library, 7th floor)

 

PT7268-7296 Saga literature (multiple categories; translations as well as Old Norse) (Olin Library, 7th floor)

 

PT7401-7513 Modern Icelandic literature (Olin Library, 7th floor)

 

PT7509-7513 Modern and early modern fiction, poetry and drama, in translation as well as in Icelandic (Olin Library, 3rd floor).