Hulda (writer)

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Hulda (born August 6, 1881 as Unnur Benediktsdóttir Bjarklind on the Auðnir farm , today Þingeyjarsveit municipality ; † April 10, 1946 ) was an Icelandic writer who published poetry and prose. She was a representative of symbolism and the most important member of a writing group that revived the Þulur genre . Your stage name means something like Die Verborgene or Elfe .

life and work

Hulda's father, Benedikt Jónsson, was the librarian of the only district library that existed in rural Iceland at the time. Hulda's childhood home was a cultural center in the Þingeyjar region, where she received excellent home schooling . In addition to the Scandinavian languages, she also learned English, German and French. Among the Icelandic poets, she was particularly admired by Eggert Ólafsson and Benedikt Sveinbjarnarson Gröndal . Hulda published her first poems in magazines at the age of twenty. Einar Benediktsson and Þorsteinn Erlingsson became aware of their work and welcomed them as a rising star of the neo-romantic movement.

Her first volume of poems, Kvæði ("Poems") from 1909, consists of lyrical natural poetry, in which Hulda contrasts the neo-romantic dream of freedom with traditional values ​​of a working life characterized by hard work. In connection with this volume, Helga Kress writes of “powerful nature metaphors” which indicated the oppression of women. Her last completed book Söngur starfsins (“The Song of Work”), however, reveals a position according to which women should be content with their fate; only virtue, duty, and isolation are worth striving for.

Despite health problems and being a housewife , Hulda was a prolific writer. She has published seven volumes of poetry and over ten volumes of prose. The last volume of poetry appeared posthumously in 1951. In 1944, she and the Icelandic writer Jóhannes úr Kötlum won a prize for a poem to celebrate the establishment of the independent Republic of Iceland. Hulda's prose works include fairy tales and short stories as well as the two-volume novel Dalafólk (“People from the Valleys”). She wrote this in response to Halldór Laxness ' novel His Own Lord , in which rural life in Iceland is shown from its dark side. In Hulda's novel, on the other hand, there is a somewhat idealized portrayal, whereby the philologist Stefán Einarsson notes that it undoubtedly reflects life in the cultivated homesteads of the Þingeyjar district.

Works

  • Kvæði. Sigurður Kristjánsson, Reykjavík 1909.
  • Æskuástir. Smásögur. Sigurður Kristjánsson / Arinbjörn Sveinbjarnarson, Reykjavík 1915–1919 (2 vols.)
  • Syngi syngi svanir minir. Ævintýri í ljóðum. Arinbjörn Sveinbjarnarson, Reykjavík 1916.
  • Tvær sögur. Arinbjörn Sveinbjarnarson, Reykjavík 1918.
  • Segðu mjer að sunnan. Kvæði. Þorsteinn Gíslason, Reykjavík 1920.
  • Myndir. Akureyri 1924
  • Ljóðmæli. Þorsteinn M. Jónsson, Akureyri 1926
  • Við ysta haf. Þorsteinn M. Jónsson, Akureyri 1926
  • Berðu mig upp til skýja. Ellefu æfintýri. Reykjavík 1930.
  • Þú hlustar vör. Ljóðaflokkur. Þorsteinn M. Jónsson, Akureyri 1933.
  • Dalafólk. Reykjavík 1936–1939 (2 vol.)
  • Undir steinum. Smásögur. Akureyri 1936.
  • "Fyrir miðja morgunsól". Ellefu æfintýri. Ísafoldarprentsmiðja, Reykjavík 1938.
  • Skrítnir náungar. Smásögur. Ísafoldarprentsmiðja, Reykjavík 1940.
  • Hjá sól og bil. Sjö þættir. Guðmundur Pétursson, Akureyri 1941.
  • Bogga and búálfurinn. Barnasaga með myndum. Ísafoldarprentsmiðja, Reykjavík 1942.
  • Í ættlandi minu. Sögur af íslenzku fólki. Bókfellsútgáfan, Reykjavík 1945.
  • Söngur starfsins. Ný kvæði. Ísafoldarprentsmiðja, Reykjavík 1946.
  • "Svo líða tregar-". Síðustu kvæði. Ísafoldarprentsmiðja, Reykjavík 1951.

literature

  • Stefán Einarsson: A history of Icelandic literature . Johns Hopkins Press, New York 1957, pp. 279-280 .
  • Helga Kress: Icelandic writers . In: Helen Tierney (ed.): Women's Studies Encyclopedia . Greenwood Press, Westport, Conn. 1999, ISBN 0-313-29620-0 , pp. 678-679 .
  • Daisy L. Neijmann: A History of Icelandic Literature . University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, Neb. 2007, ISBN 0-313-29620-0 , pp. 344-347 .
  • Guðmundur Gíslason Hagalín: Hulda skáldkona . In: Morgunblaðið . April 17, 1946, p. 6-7 ( online - obituary for Hulda).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Helga Kress: Icelandic writers . In: Helen Tierney (ed.): Women's Studies Encyclopedia . Greenwood Press, Westport, Conn. 1999, ISBN 0-313-29620-0 , pp. 678 .
  2. ↑ Stefán Einarsson: A history of Icelandic literature . Johns Hopkins Press, New York 1957, pp. 279 .
  3. ↑ Stefán Einarsson: A history of Icelandic literature . Johns Hopkins Press, New York 1957, pp. 279-280 .
  4. ↑ a b Daisy L. Neijmann: A History of Icelandic Literature . University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, Neb. 2007, ISBN 0-313-29620-0 , pp. 345 .
  5. ^ Helga Kress: Icelandic writers . In: Helen Tierney (ed.): Women's Studies Encyclopedia . Greenwood Press, Westport, Conn. 1999, ISBN 0-313-29620-0 , pp. 679 .
  6. ↑ Jón R. Hjalmarsson: Með þjóðskáldum við þjóðveginn . Reykjavík 2004, p. 143
  7. ^ A b Stefán Einarsson: A history of Icelandic literature . Johns Hopkins Press, New York 1957, pp. 280 .
personal data
SURNAME Hulda
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Unnur Benediktsdóttir Bjarklind (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Icelandic writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Þingeyjarsveit
DATE OF DEATH April 10, 1946