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Jonas Hallgrimsson (1807-45) was an Icelandic Romantic poet and natural scientist. Dick Ringler, a professor at The University of Wisconsin, has a site that contains 50 poems and prose texts by Jonas in parallel English/Icelandic versions. Also on the site, a guide to traditional Icelandic verse, a biographical sketch of the poet and a map of Iceland with places Jonas wrote about marked. Here’s his short Above the Ford: The cliffs on life’s swift current/are cleft by shallow valleys./Masses have queued to cross there —/crowds of billy-goat milkers./We’ll go upstream, God willing,/to walk the hawk-high ridges/and pitch ourselves — impetuous —/plumb in the roaring torrent! [Today is Iceland’s Independence Day]

Visit Site: http://www.library.wisc.edu/etext/Jonas/