Baldur Ragnarsson (25 August 1930 – 25 December 2018) was an

Iceland Iceland is a Nordic countries, Nordic island country between the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge between North America and Europe. It is culturally and politically linked with Europe and is the regi ...

ic poet and author of

Esperanto Esperanto (, ) is the world's most widely spoken Constructed language, constructed international auxiliary language. Created by L. L. Zamenhof in 1887 to be 'the International Language' (), it is intended to be a universal second language for ...

works. He was a teacher and a superintendent of schools in Iceland.

Esperanto

Baldur learned

at school in 1949 and was active in the movement to promote the use of this language since 1952. He was president of the Icelandic Esperanto Association for many years. He presided over the World Esperanto Association's literary contest from 1975 to 1985. He was president of the organizing committee for the 1977 World Esperanto Congress at

Reykjavík Reykjavík is the Capital city, capital and largest city in Iceland. It is located in southwestern Iceland on the southern shore of Faxaflói, the Faxaflói Bay. With a latitude of 64°08′ N, the city is List of northernmost items, the worl ...

and vice-president of the World Esperanto Association in charge of culture and education from 1980 to 1986. He was thereafter an honorary member of this organization. He was editor of the journal '' Norda Prismo'' from 1958 to 1974, and became a member of the

Akademio de Esperanto The Akademio de Esperanto (AdE; ) is an independent body of Esperanto speakers who steward the evolution of said language by keeping it consistent with the '' Fundamento de Esperanto'' in accordance with the Declaration of Boulogne. Modeled somew ...

(Esperanto Academy) in 1979, In 2007 the Association of Esperanto-speaking authors (''Esperantlingva Verkista Asocio'') nominated him as their candidate for the

Nobel Prize in Literature The Nobel Prize in Literature, here meaning ''for'' Literature (), is a Swedish literature prize that is awarded annually, since 1901, to an author from any country who has, in the words of the will of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, "in ...

following the death of

William Auld William Auld (6 November 1924 – 11 September 2006) was a British poet, author, translator and magazine editor who wrote chiefly in Esperanto. Life Auld was born at Erith in Kent, and then moved to Glasgow with his parents, attending Allan ...

in 2006.

Works

Baldur composed poetic works in Icelandic as well as books on the

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. He was also written two collections of Esperanto poems: ''Ŝtupoj sen nomo'' and ''Esploroj''. In 2007 Edistudio published ''La lingvo serena'', his complete works. In addition to the poems of his two previous collections, the book contains all the poems he was published subsequently, as well as all the essays he has written on literature and linguistics. All subsequent poetry books (2008 to 2016) were published by Mondial in New York. Poetry * ''Ŝtupoj sen Nomo'', 1959 * ''Esploroj'', 1974 * "Deflorazione" and "Malvirgigo" in ''El la nova ĝardeno (Dal nuovo giardino)'', Dante Bertolini, ed., Pedrazzini: Locarno, 1979, 100 pp. * ''La lingvo serena'', 2007 * ''La neceso akceptebla'', 2008 * ''La fontoj nevideblaj'', 2010 * ''Laŭ neplanitaj padoj'', 2013 * ''Momentoj kaj meditoj'', 2016 Translations into Esperanto * ''Sub stelo rigida'', two collections by the Icelandic poet Þorsteinn frá Hamri, 1963 * ''Islandaj pravoĉoj'', three tales and a poem from Old Icelandic literature, 1964 * ''Sagao de Njal'',

Njáls saga ''Njáls saga'' ( ), also ''Njála'' ( ), or ''Brennu-Njáls saga'' ( ) (Which can be translated as ''The Story of Burnt Njáll'', or ''The Saga of Njáll the Burner''), is a thirteenth-century Icelandic saga that describes events between 960 a ...

, the greatest of the Icelandic sagas, 2003 * ''Sendependaj homoj'',

Halldór Laxness Halldór Kiljan Laxness (; born Halldór Guðjónsson; 23 April 1902 – 8 February 1998) was an Icelandic writer and winner of the 1955 Nobel Prize in Literature. He wrote novels, poetry, newspaper articles, essays, plays, travelogues and sh ...

's Independent People, a novel about rural Iceland at the turn of the 20th century, 2007 * ''La Edda de Snorri Sturluson'',

Snorri Sturluson Snorri Sturluson ( ; ; 1179 – 22 September 1241) was an Icelandic historian, poet, and politician. He was elected twice as lawspeaker of the Icelandic parliament, the Althing. He is commonly thought to have authored or compiled portions of th ...

Prose Edda The ''Prose Edda'', also known as the ''Younger Edda'', ''Snorri's Edda'' () or, historically, simply as ''Edda'', is an Old Norse textbook written in Iceland during the early 13th century. The work is often considered to have been to some exten ...

, 2008 * ''Vundebla loko'' (Translation of poems by the award-winning Icelandic author Gerður Kristný), 2009 * ''Sagao de la Volsungoj - kaj ĝiaj fontoj'' ("'' Saga of the Völsungs'' - and its sources", translation of the most famous of the

legendary saga A legendary saga or ''fornaldarsaga'' (literally, "story/history of the ancient era") is a Norse saga that, unlike the Icelanders' sagas, takes place before the settlement of Iceland.The article ''Fornaldarsagor'' in ''Nationalencyklopedin'' (1991 ...

s, the theme of which is the Old Norse-Germanic mythological heroes) 2011 * ''Sagao de Egil'' (Translation of ''

Egil's Saga ''Egill's Saga'' or ''Egil's saga'' ( ; ) is an Icelandic saga (family saga) on the lives of the clan of Egill Skallagrímsson (Anglicised as Egill Skallagrimsson), an Icelandic farmer, viking and skald. The saga spans the years c. 850–1000 a ...

'', one of the 40 so-called

Sagas of Icelanders The sagas of Icelanders (, ), also known as family sagas, are a subgenre, or text group, of Icelandic Saga, sagas. They are prose narratives primarily based on historical events that mostly took place in Iceland in the ninth, tenth, and earl ...

) 2011 In addition, he has published dozens of translations in various journals, in recent times principally in the journal
La tradukisto
' . Essays * ''La Sagaoj kaj Zamenhof: stabiligaj faktoroj'' 1982 * ''Studado de alia lingvo'' 1982 * "Esperanto kiel anti-lingvo" in ''Serta gratulatoria in honorem Juan Régulo''. Universidad de La Laguna, Salamanca, 3,266 pp., 1986 * ''La proza poemo: la ĝenro, ĝiaj latentoj kaj aplikoj'' 1987 * ''La Poezia Arto'' (Five lectures) 1988 * ''Cent jaroj de poezio en Esperanto". 1989 * ''La poezio de la skaldoj'' * ''La poemoj de Armand Su'' 1993 * ''Kombino de poeta virtuozeco kaj ties instrumento'' 1994 * ''Tradukante la antikvan islandan literaturon en Esperanto'' 1998 * "La fono kaj la fronto: kelkaj konsideroj pri semiotikaj aspektoj de la Esperanta poezio" in ''Lingva arto''. Vilmos Benczik, ed., Universala Esperanto-Asocio, Rotterdam: 1999, 217 pp. * ''La lingvo serena'' 2007 * ''Tungumál Veraldar'' 2009

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