Árbók Landsbókasafns Íslands - Nýr flokkur - 01.01.1992, Page 126

ENGLISH SUMMARY
Ólafur F. Hjartar og Þorsteinn Kári Bjarnason: Skrá um doktorsritgerðir
íslendinga, prentaðar og óprentaðar, 1986-1990. Landsbókasafn íslands. Árbók.
Nýrflokkur 16 (1990). Rv. 1992, pp. 5-52.
A catalogue of doctoral dissertations written by Icelanders 1666-1980 was
published in the Yearbook of the National Library for 1981; a supplement
covering the years 1981-1985 appeared in the Yearbook for 1986.
The present supplement covers the years 1986-1990 and records the disserta-
tions of 211 candidates accepted by 102 universities in the following 12 countrieS:
The United States (84), Sweden (51), England (16), Norway (11), Denmark (11),
Germany (11), Iceland (10), Scotland (6), Canada (6), France (3), The Nether-
lands (1), The Philippines (1).
The catalogue is arranged in alphabetical order (according to authors).
Following the book description or title there is the date of the oral examination or
the date the degree was awarded, and the name of the awarding institution. The
main catalogue is followed by a classified section.
Seventeen doctoral dissertations are included in an addendum to the earlier
catalogues. Tliey were submitted to universities in the following countries:
England (7), Scotland (3), Norway (1), Denmark (1), Northern Ireland (1),
Germany (1), The United States (2), The Soviet Union (1).
Gunnar Sveinsson: Eineintak í Landsbókasafni Islands: Hugdilla Gunnars
Pálssonar. Landsbókasafn íslands. Árbók. Nýrflokkur 16 (1990). Rv. 1992, pp. 53-64.
The relation between two of the most learned Icelandic scholars of the 18th
century, Gunnar Pálsson (1714-1791), poet and parson of Hjarðarholt in the
west of Iceland, and Hálfdan Einarsson (1732-1785), rector of the cathedral
school at Hólar, extended over a period of 30 years, 1753-1783. In 1753, while
Hálfdan Einarsson was still a student in Copenhagen, he wrote his first letter to
Gunnar Pálsson, and apparently they corresponded regularly until 1759,
although only two of Gunnar’s letters to Hálfdan have survived. After that they
did not exchange a single letter for 17 years due to the publication (in 1757) of a
poem that turned out to be written by Hálfdan Einarsson, in which he attacks the
clergy for being greedy and slothful. This poem offended many people,
including Gunnar Pálsson, and caused a great deal of bitter acrimony. In 1776,
through the mediation of Gunnar Pálsson’s nephew, Halldór Hjálmarsson, they
resumed their correspondence, and following the publication of Hálfdan