Icelandic Esperanto Association
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The Icelandic Esperanto Association (Esperanto: Islanda Esperanto-Asocio; Icelandic: Íslenska esperantosambandið, Esperantosamband Íslands) is one of the national associations of the Universal Esperanto Association (UEA). It was founded in 1950[1] and joined the Universal Esperanto Association in 1975. It publishes a magazine called La velo (The Sail). Its president is Hannes Högni Vilhjálmsson (as of November 2014).
The association has twice hosted the World Esperanto Congress: the 62nd in the summer of 1977 and the 98th in Reykjavík from July 20 to July 27, 2013.[1]
The first national Esperanto association in Iceland, Samband íslenzkra esperantista, was founded in 1931.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Heimsþing esperantista Í Reykjavík 20. – 27. júlí 2013" (PDF) (in Icelandic). Esperantosamband Íslands. 2013. Archived from the original (PDF) on November 16, 2017. Retrieved August 15, 2016.
- ^ Nicola Ruggiero (June 2016). "Speglar vatnanna: Um sjálfsþýðingar Baldurs Ragnarssonar, skálds" (BA thesis, Icelandic as a second language, University of Iceland) (in Icelandic). p. 11. Retrieved August 16, 2016.
Further reading
[edit]- Árni Böðvarsson (1954). "Þjóðir og tungumál". Tímarit Máls og menningar. 15 (2): 166–88.