Finding Aids to Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture

ICELAND COLLECTIONS
IN THE ARCHIVE OF FOLK CULTURE

Compiled by: Daniel Schultz
Series Editor: Ann Hoog
Revised: March 2011

AFC 1940/001: W.P.A. California Folk Music Project Collection, 1938-1940
Two hundred thirty-nine discs and numerous photographs, drawings, transcriptions, correspondence, and manuscripts documenting 17 ethnic groups recorded in northern California folk music by Sidney Robertson Cowell for the Northern California Work Projects Administration (WPA). The project was sponsored by the University of California, Berkeley, and co-sponsored by Library's Archive of American Folk Song. (includes AFS 3342-3377; 3809-3880; 4194-4325) [catalog record] [online presentation]

Note: Includes Icelandic recordings and photographs recorded in Carmel, Berkeley, and San Francisco, California, singing unaccompanied rímur, hymns, and immigrant songs in Icelandic and English.

AFC 1972/015: Amanda M. Burt Collection of Icelandic Folk Music
One 5-inch tape of Icelandic rímur, skandera, and tvísöngur performed by Margret Hjálmarsdottir and her husband, Hörthur Bjarnasson. Includes the collector's notes and correspondence regarding the donation. Recorded in Reykjavik, Iceland, by Amanda M. Burt, 1971. [catalog record]

AFS 15,100-15,101: Amanda M. Burt / Icelandic Folk Music
Two 5-inch tapes of Icelandic folk music recorded and duplicated by Amanda M. Burt, 1972. (LWO 7024)

AFS 15,609-15,610: Amanda M. Burt / Icelandic Folksongs
Two 7-inch tapes of Icelandic folk music recorded by Hallfredus Orn Eiriksson and Amanda M. Burt, 1968 and 1973. (LWO 7405)

AFS 17,025-17,026: Amanda M. Burt / Icelandic Folk Music
One 3-inch tape of Icelandic folk music recorded by Amanda Burt, 1974. (LWO 7897)

AFC 1988/036: Good Yule: Nordic Christmas Celebrations
Manuscripts documenting a lecture and workshop on traditional ornaments of the Nordic Christmas season by Richard H. Hulan, December 15, 1988. Demonstrations of Danish folded paper, Finnish tied straw, Swedish woven wheat ornaments, with additional contributions of Norwegian rosemaling and Icelandic enameled dough.