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Já / Yes
03:24
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Breiðholt-Nørrebro
01:39
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Hikk! / Hic!
04:10
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4. |
Freyjugata
00:18
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Á ferð / In Motion
03:01
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Mánudans / Mo(o)ndance
04:33
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7. |
Hundur / Dog
00:57
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Krónan / ISK
09:55
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Moltukisi / Compost Cat
05:07
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Tunglsjúkar nætur
Af því að klukkan var þetta ...
Af því að veðrið var svona ...
Aðeins þannig passa ég í heiminn
einsog föt af manni
sem ég þekki ekki neitt.
Ég veit ekki hvernig þau fara mér,
hvort þau eru of lítil
eða of stór
en séu þau af manninum þínum
þá ert þú konan mín
og segir honum það ef hann hringir
á meðan klukkan er þetta
og veðrið er svona.
…
Sjálfur ligg ég hér
einsog skip á botni hafsins.
Ég man ekki hvenær ég sökk
en þú getur eflaust
slegið því upp í bókum.
Ég mæli með Háskólabókasafninu
löngu fyrir daga þessara orða
þegar vörðurinn þekkti allar bækurnar
og ekki þurfti neina spjaldskrá
og því var trúað að skáldið
í afgreiðslunni
gengi á vatni.
Já einhvers staðar þar,
á einhverri blaðsíðu, í einhverri bók
finnurðu örlög mín,
þú getur jafnvel valið þér bók
og kosið mér örlög,
en ef þú hífir mig upp
sérðu drauma mína,
fulla af dýrgripum
sem alla tíð hafa tilheyrt þér
í öðrum draumi
öðru lífi.
Einar Már Guðmundsson
Lunatic Nights
Because it was this o’clock ...
Because the weather was like that ...
That’s the only way I fit into the world
like the garments of a man
I don’t know at all.
I don’t know how they suit me,
whether they’re too big
or too small
but if they’re your husband’s clothes
then you’re my wife
and you’ll tell him so if he phones
while it’s this o’clock
and the weather’s like that.
...
For myself, I lie here
like a ship at the bottom of the sea.
I don’t recall when I sank
but you can surely
look it up in books.
I recommend the University Library
long before these words were written
when the Librarian knew every book
and had no need of a card-index
and the poet
at the desk
was thought to walk on water.
Yes, somewhere there,
on some page of some book,
you’ll find my fate –
you can even pick a book
and choose a fate for me,
but if you hoist me up
you’ll see my dreams
full of treasures
that have always belonged to you
in another dream,
another life.
Einar Már Guðmundsson
English translation: Anna Yates
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Hafdis Bjarnadottir Reykjavik, Iceland
Composer and electric guitarist Hafdís Bjarnadóttir combines her training in jazz and classical music with her interpretation of the 'sounds of life' to produce music that has been described as both comforting and challenging at the same time. Her past projects include an orchestra piece made with knitting instructions, three critically acclaimed solo albums and various commissioned pieces. ... more
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