I have a book ISBN 9979583177, titled Steingrimur St. Th. Sigurdsson,
Lausnar-Steinn, Lifsbok Min. copyright 1998 Fjolvautgafan, Reykjavik.
I'm not sure what language this is, maybe finnish. The book appears to
be a bio of an artist. Can someone tell me something about this book
so I can list it on ebay.

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Request for Question Clarification by bobbie7-ga on 10 Nov 2005 07:45 PST

Hello Blufford,

I found a brief description of the book in its original language.  I
entered the text at an online translation website and it does appear
that this book is a biography of an artist.

Other than that, I can tell you is the language of the book. (It?s not Finnish)

I found out the year the author was born as well.

Would this interest you as the answer to your question?

Thanks,
Bobbie7

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Clarification of Question by blufford-ga on 10 Nov 2005 15:05 PST

yes that will be a suitable answer. Thanks

Hello Blufford,

The book is in Icelandic and the author, Steingrímur Sigurðsson  was born in 1925


The Library of Congress http://www.loc.gov/  provided me with the
following information:


Author : Steingrímur Sigurðsson, 
Born 1925-
Title:  Lausnarsteinn : lífsbok mín by  Steingrímur St. Th. Sigurðsson
Reykjavík : Fjölvi, 1998.
450 pages
LC Control Number: 99203390  


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Book description (in Icelandic) 

http://www.mmedia.is/~baekur/baekurnar/aevisogur.html

Scroll down to the center of the page at the above link to read a
brief description of the book in its original language.
The price of the book is 3.680 Icelandic kronas.

LAUSNARSTEINN 
Steingrímur St. Th. Sigurðsson 

?Hressileg og á köflum hrikaleg og hráslagaleg ævisaga þessa kröftuga
listamanns sem hefur átt fleiri en eina konu og haldið næstum hundrað
málverkasýningar í öllum landshlutum.

Það þekkja allir Steingrím, þennan skorinorða sagnaþul. 

220 blaðsíður.
Fjölvi 
ISBN 9979-58-317-7 
Leiðb.verð: 3.680 kr.
http://www.mmedia.is/~baekur/baekurnar/aevisogur.html


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The book is in  Icelandic.

This following website features an English-Icelandic and
Icelandic-English dictionary
http://www.ordabok.is/english.asp

Here are translations of some of the words from the above description.

Hressileg : in a lively way
Hráslagaleg: bleak shivery
Ævisaga:  biography or memoirs
Bessa: this that
Kröftuglega:  mightily; lustily; forcibly
listamanns : artistic career
sem: like such
hefur: has
att: towards
fleiri: more
málverkasýningar:  painting



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Another web translator gave me the following translation. (This
translation isn't very good but the word memoirs and artist appear in
the translated text)

?Spicy and river köflum devastating and hráslagaleg memoir þess vegna
kröftuga artist whom hast direction further while shut off wifeless
and - halda nearly hundred málverkasýningar into öllu heldur part.
There recognise everyone Dapple-grey þennan skorinorða taleteller.?
http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:SMyJipPJk_4J:intertran.tranexp.com/Translate/result.shtml+intertran&hl=en


Search criteria:
LAUSNARSTEINN 
Steingrímur St. Th. Sigurðsson 
Icelandic translation Library of Congree

I hope this helps!

Best regards,
Bobbie7

Thanks for the information.

Just off the top of my head, isn't Reykjavik in Iceland?  Might the
language be Icelandic?

J.

Thank you for the tip!
--Bobbie7