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from 18 years earlier. By 1899, the society was printing the Old
Testament translations of Þórir Kr. Þórðarson, which were used into the early 21st century. The latest full translation, a new complete translation by Guðrún Guðlaugsdóttir, was published in 2007.
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Icelandic Bible is the Icelandic Bible Society, which was founded on 10 July 1815 with the goal of making the Bible widely available and accessible in Iceland. In 1859 it printed the so-called
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and reprinted in 1866 in two editions: a single volume with the New
Testament and Psalms and a set with the full Old and New Testaments. Both the 1863 and 1866 editions were printed by the British Bible Society at
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and Sigurður Melsteð, who compared it with the Greek and Hebrew originals and with the
Norwegian, Danish, English and French versions. This edition (just the New Testament and Psalms) was edited by
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to help explain the new religion and practices to the populace. These included religious interpretations alongside translations of Bible stories. The oldest
Icelandic biblical texts date to
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549:Því svo elskaði Guð heiminn, að hann gaf sinn eingetinn Son, til þess að hver, sem á hann trúir, ekki glatist, heldur hafi eilift lif.
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in the mid-16th century. Since then, 11 complete translations of the Bible have been completed into
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oversees translation and production of
Icelandic-language Bibles with the most recent full translation completed in 2007.
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Afterwards, a number of other translations followed, such the 1644
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An Icelandic Prose Reader: With Notes, Grammar, and Glossary
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