<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><!--StartFragment--><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black"">FLIGHT OF THE RAVEN: <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black"">Oral Literature of the Haida
of British Columbia<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Arial">A Talk by <b>Robert Bringhurst</b></span><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Arial"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Arial">National Museum seminar room,
Reykjavik<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Arial">1030-1130 Friday 11 September<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Arial">Introduced and moderated by <b>Dr
Terry Gunnell</b></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Arial">,
Department of Folkloristics, University of Iceland </span><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; ">Robert
Bringhurst, one of Canada’s best known poets, is visiting Iceland for the 2009
Reykjavik Book Fair. He has published more than fifteen books and also seminal
works on art and typography, and he has recently written and lectured on the
nature of language itself. His groundbreaking study of a Native American oral
literature, A Story as Sharp as a Knife: The Classical Haida Mythtellers and
Their World (1999), unleashed a storm of controversy and a tidal wave of praise
and was followed by two volumes of translation of Haida oral poetry. Born in
Los Angeles, Bringhurst was educated at Indiana University and the University
of British Columbia and has been author-in-residence at several universities
including Edinburgh, UK.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 252.0pt 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt;
mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial">This
lecture is sponsored by the English Speaking Union of Iceland with the kind
assistance of the Embassy of Canada.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 252.0pt 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt;
mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Arial Black'; font-size: 19px; ">Admission is free and all are welcome</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 252.0pt 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt;
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