Icelandic Esperanto Association

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 UEA in 1975. Its magazine is La velo (The Sail). Its president is Hannes Högni Vilhjálmsson (as of November 2014). Baldur Ragnarsson presided over the association for a long time and made many translations of Icelandic literature into Esperanto.[1]

Þorsteinn Þorsteinsson, the first promoter of Esperanto in Iceland

The association has twice hosted the World Esperanto Congress: the 62nd in the summer of 1997 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
  1. "Heimsþing esperantista Í Reykjavík 20. – 27. júlí 2013" (PDF) (in Icelandic). Esperantosamband Íslands. 2013. Retrieved August 15, 2016.
  2. 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.

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