Dunganon

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Dunganon (born May 6, 1897 at Seyðisfjörður as Karl Kjerúlf Einarsson ; † February 24, 1972 in Copenhagen ) was an Icelandic poet , painter and adventurer . He also referred to himself as Cormorant XII, Emperor of Atlantis and Duke of St. Kilda . Further pseudonyms were Carolus Africanus Dunganon , Professor Dr. Emarson , Professor Valentinus and Lord of Hecla .

Life

Karl Kjerúlf Einarsson's parents moved with him to the Faroe Islands , where his father ran a grocery store in Tórshavn . According to an article in the Icelandic newspaper Alþýðublaðið , the house in which the family lived was called Dunga , which sounds "a little Gaelic" and which inspired Karl to use his pseudonym. The Reykjavík Grapevine tells another variant - after that the Faroe Islands were a “dung heap” for Karl, which he said goodbye to when he left the archipelago for Europe with the exclamation “Dunga - non!”.

At first Dunganon moved to Spain, later to southern France and finally to Denmark. In Copenhagen Dunganon met Halldór Laxness , who portrayed him in his short story Die Völuspá in Hebrew (Völuspá á hebresku) from 1939 under the name of Karl Einfer . He appears in it as a kind of traveling swindler and eccentric, as the prophet Anakananda "expelled from Brussels by police force" and zealously agitating against the consumption of "milk from other animals". He also offers Halldór Laxness to get him the Nobel Prize , which he has already got other people. Laxness suggests doing "half-half" in the story. In 1955 Halldór Laxness actually received the Nobel Prize in Literature , although it can be assumed that Dunganon was not involved.

During the Second World War, Dunganon stayed in Germany. There he is said to have spoken radio broadcasts with National Socialist propaganda for the Faroe Islands - although he later claimed to have done this not in Faroese , but in the "language of Atlantis" he had invented, so that no one could understand a word.

Dunganon spent the last years of his life in the Danish city of Frederiksberg , where his funeral also took place after his death in Copenhagen.

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Under his real name, Dunganon published the volumes of poetry Vartegn and Enemod in Copenhagen in 1931 and 1935 . 1962 followed (now under the name Dunganon) Corda Atlantica , a collection of poems in twenty languages, including Dunganon's "Atlantic language". Since 1948 he has also been active as a visual artist , whereby his most important work is a series of 256 pictures, which he called "oracles".

Publications

  • Vartegn . Nyt nordisk forlag, København 1931.
  • Enemod . Nyt nordisk forlag, København 1935.
  • Corda Atlantica. Poesias peregrinas St. Kilda, [Reykjavík] 1962.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jaðraði við að vera spekingur ( Icelandic ) In: Alþýðublaðið . S. 4. September 18, 1992. Retrieved August 3, 2014.
  2. ↑ a b c d Lawrence Millman: The Last Emperor Of Atlantis Was An Icelander ( English ) In: The Reykjavík Grapevine . July 10, 2014. Retrieved August 3, 2014.
  3. ↑ Halldór Laxness: Seven Wizards. Narratives . Steidl, Göttingen 1997, ISBN 3-88243-471-6 , p. 73 .
  4. ↑ Halldór Laxness: Seven Wizards. Narratives . Steidl, Göttingen 1997, ISBN 3-88243-471-6 , p. 77 .
  5. ↑ Halldór Laxness: Seven Wizards. Narratives . Steidl, Göttingen 1997, ISBN 3-88243-471-6 , p. 71 .
  6. ^ Karl Einarsson Dunganon - Minning ( Icelandic ) In: Morgunblaðið . S. 23 March 3, 1972. Retrieved August 3, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Dunganon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Karl Kjerúlf Einarsson (real name); Karl Kerulf Einarsson; Karl Einarsson Dunganon; Cormorant XII .; Carolus Africanus Dunganon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Icelandic painter, poet and adventurer
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Seyðisfjörður
DATE OF DEATH February 24, 1972
Place of death Copenhagen