{"id":4625,"date":"2012-09-01T20:15:46","date_gmt":"2012-09-02T00:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=4625"},"modified":"2018-08-03T21:32:05","modified_gmt":"2018-08-04T01:32:05","slug":"4625","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=4625","title":{"rendered":"Saturday, September 1, 2012 \u2014 Reykjavik\u2019s Bookstores"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Ice\u00adland is famous for hav\u00ading a very high lev\u00adel of read\u00ading, and I saw plen\u00adty of evi\u00addence of this.&nbsp;Reykyavik\u2019s core has a half-dozen fair\u00adly large book\u00adstores, well stocked with both Ice\u00adlandic and Eng\u00adlish books, and they are always crowd\u00aded. A Cana\u00addi\u00adan city of this size would be lucky to have one.&nbsp;I vis\u00adit\u00aded a sec\u00adond-hand book\u00adstore, and mar\u00advelled at the large selec\u00adtion of old books in Ice\u00adlandic, dat\u00ading back to the ear\u00adly 19th cen\u00adtu\u00adry, when the pop\u00adu\u00adla\u00adtion of the island was tiny.&nbsp;These includ\u00aded both trans\u00adla\u00adtions of the world\u2019s out\u00adput, but quite a lot of orig\u00adi\u00adnal works in Ice\u00adlandic.&nbsp;My will-pow\u00ader broke down, and I pur\u00adchased a two-vol\u00adume set of Sagas.&nbsp;These are use\u00adless to me, as they are in Ice\u00adlandic, but they are beau\u00adti\u00adful, and I ratio\u00adnal\u00adized the pur\u00adchase as the vis\u00adi\u00adble sou\u00advenir of my trip that will look at me hand\u00adsome\u00adly from my book\u00adshelf.&nbsp;Per\u00adhaps a wan\u00adder\u00ading Ice\u00adlandic schol\u00adar will drop by and read&nbsp;them.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ice\u00adland is famous for hav\u00ading a very high lev\u00adel of read\u00ading, and I saw plen\u00adty of evi\u00addence of this.&nbsp;Reykyavik\u2019s core has a half-dozen fair\u00adly large book\u00adstores, well stocked with both Ice\u00adlandic and Eng\u00adlish books, and they are always crowd\u00aded.&nbsp;A&nbsp;\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=4625\">Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,932],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-blog","category-ao-blog-2012"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4625"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4790,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4625\/revisions\/4790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}