Icelandic Encyclopedia A-Ö

The Icelandic Encyclopedia A-Ö is an encyclopedia in the Icelandic language published in 1990 by Örn og Örlygur. The book is in three volumes, containing about 37,000 tags and 4,500 drawings and maps , and is also the first Icelandic encyclopedia. The editors were Dora Hafsteinsdóttir and Sigrid Harðardóttir. Another printing came out in 1992.[1]

The book is based on the Danish Fakta, Gyldendals etbinds leksikon issued in 1988.[2] Contracts on the encyclopedia were reached in 1987 and originally planned to come out in a parallel Danish edition.

References

  1. ↑ "Dagur, 11.04.1991". Timarit.is. Retrieved 2016-04-02.
  2. ↑ "9". Ismennt.is. Retrieved 2016-04-02.

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