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Nikulás probably began collecting books as a youth, certainly bringing a copy of the Bible from his father's collection to Canada; he probably built up most of his collection in the first decade of the twentieth century, however (not least while visiting
Iceland in 1909-10). In the summer of 1942,
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Waisenhús in 1746; a range of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century religious literature; and nineteenth-century journals. It also includes 28 Icelandic manuscripts, mostly from the nineteenth century, containing in particular
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270:'s satirical "Winnipeg Icelander" (1920) contains a reference to Nikulás Ottensen (called Nick Ottins or Nickie in the poem). The language parodies that spoken by urban immigrants in Winnipeg:
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Nikulás married Anna Guðmundsdóttir of
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to dine on wild game that he claims to have personally shot in flight, although it had in fact been purchased by the poem's hapless urbanite of a narrator after failing to hunt a moose.
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Nikulás learned to write from his father around the age of eight, and is the scribe of manuscript 28 in the Nikulás
Ottensen Collection, a copy of Magnús í Magnússkógum's
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The second of the two archive boxes of manuscripts which comprise the Nikulás
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One Kristján
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The book collection prominently includes
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Safn Nikulásar Ottensons í Johns Hopkins Háskólabókasafnsins í Baltimore, Md.
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which he made in 1915-16. As a young man, he worked
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