Such profound and exquisite
womanhood, such inflexible masculine will, have hardly ever been
seen combined on the stage before.
GEORG BRANDES.
INTRODUCTION
Iceland has always been famous for the quality of her literature,
although nowadays but little of it comes to our shores. It is,
therefore, an especial pleasure to introduce the author of "Hadda
Padda."
Godmundur Kamban, son of a merchant of an old and well known
Icelandic family, was born near Reykjavik, the capital of Iceland,
on June 8, 1888. He was graduated twenty-two years later from the
College of Reykjavik, where he received honoris causa in
literature and language, the first and only time this prize has
ever been awarded. While still at college, he was made assistant
editor of the best known newspaper in Iceland, edited by Bjorn
Jonsson, the late Prime Minister, in whose home Mr. Kamban lived
during his college career. In 1910, he proceeded to the University
of Copenhagen, where he specialized in literature and received his
Master's degree. In Copenhagen, Peter Jerndorff, the famous Acteur
Royal, practically regarded him as his own son.
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