Baldur Ragnarsson


Baldur Ragnarsson was an Icelandic poet and author of Esperanto works. He was a teacher and a superintendent of schools in Iceland.

Esperanto

Baldur learned Esperanto 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 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 in 1979,
In 2007 the Association of Esperanto-speaking authors nominated him as their candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature following the death of William Auld in 2006.

Works

Baldur composed poetic works in Icelandic as well as books on the Icelandic language. 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 were published by Mondial in New York.
PoetryŜtupoj sen Nomo, 1959Esploroj, 1974
  • "Deflorazione" and "Malvirgigo" in El la nova ĝardeno , Dante Bertolini, ed., Pedrazzini: Locarno, 1979, 100 pp.La lingvo serena, 2007La neceso akceptebla, 2008La fontoj nevideblaj, 2010Laŭ neplanitaj padoj, 2013Momentoj kaj meditoj, 2016
Translations into EsperantoSub stelo rigida, two collections by the Icelandic poet Þorsteinn frá Hamri, 1963Islandaj pravoĉoj, three tales and a poem from Old Icelandic literature, 1964Sagao de Njal, Njáls saga, the greatest of the Icelandic sagas, 2003Sendependaj homoj, Halldór Laxness's Independent People, a novel about rural Iceland at the turn of the 20th century, 2007La Edda de Snorri Sturluson, Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda, 2008Vundebla loko, 2009Sagao de la Volsungoj - kaj ĝiaj fontoj 2011Sagao de Egil 2011
In addition, he has published dozens of translations in various journals, in recent times principally in the journal '.
Essays'La Sagaoj kaj Zamenhof: stabiligaj faktoroj 1982Studado 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 1987La Poezia Arto 1988Cent jaroj de poezio en Esperanto 1989La poezio de la skaldojLa poemoj de Armand Su 1993Kombino de poeta virtuozeco kaj ties instrumento 1994Tradukante 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 2007Tungumál Veraldar'' 2009