Blondal, Sigfus, and Bjorg Thorlaksson Blondal, Jon Ofeigsson, Holger Wiehe

Íslensk-Dönsk Ordabok / Islandsk-Dansk Ordbog [= Icelandic-Danish Dictionary]

Reykjavik, Iceland: Thor. B. Thorlaksson, 1920. 9.5" x 11.5" pp. xxxii, 1052, including diagrams and black and white illustrations. Green cloth boards, quarter-bound in brown calf with raised bands and gold stamping. Light scuffing at edges and corners; light foxing at text block edge. Text has light toning along edges but is otherwise clean and sound. Good to very good.

Family page of ownership, hand-drawn and illustrated Valdimar "Val" Bjornsson (Icelandic language). Val Bjornson (1906-1987) was an American writer, newspaper editor, and politician who served as the State Treasurer of Minnesota for more than two decades. Bjornson was born in Minnesota of Icelandic descent. In WWII, he served in Navy intelligence, stationed in Iceland (he would have been about 37 years old at this time, and presumably where he acquired this dictionary). Bjornson was fluent in Icelandic, Finnish, Danish, Swedish, and Norwegian. He was part owner of the Minnesota Mascot newspaper and an associate editor at the St. Paul Pioneer Press. Running as the Republican candidate in the 1954 United States Senate elections, Bjornson lost to Hubert H. Humphrey, with whom he sometimes shared a car to travel around the state. Bjornson died in Minneapolis in 1987. The University of Minnesota (his alma mater) and the University of Iceland have a student exchange scholarship named in his honor. (excerpts from Wikipedia) Item #601

Price: $450.00