Found a copy from 1913 that is still in good condition
On November 2, 1913, the first issue of Morgunblaðið was published, but Kjartan Friðrik Adólfsson, general accountant in the Grindavík Municipal Office, is luminous on the copy of the magazine, which is 112 years old. Kjartan came across the copy when he crossed his father’s death estate about two years ago and says it is in good condition.
Had never suspected he should have the copy
« I found this very remarkable, I have been looking back and forth if this is not quite the case, » says Kjartan in a conversation with mbl.is. He has carried this to others and sees no better than this to pass and this is a copy of the first issue from the first year of Morgunbladid.
« My parents were naturally like people at the time subscribers to all magazines, » says Kjartan, but says that his father was born in 1930 and the magazine comes out for his time. Kjartan lived with his parents in the Westman Islands, but the family moved to Grindavík in the 1973 eruption. « I had never suspected that he had this copy, » says Kjartan about his father.
« When we were finishing the death estate and other things, I knew that the first issue of DV, or the newspaper, was there and was so looking to find it. This was revealed. «
The blade in good condition despite age
« I have no idea where he has come across this copy, » says Kjartan.
Asked how the magazine has been stored, Kjartan says that he has been remarkable how good the state of the magazine is based on the storage method on it.
« It was, as I said, broken twice, first broken into halves and then back to halves and just laid in such a normal plastic pocket. That’s why I think this paper is quite remarkable, I think there is one page that is just so crumpled. »
Kjartan says he takes the paper like gold when he has opened it, the magazine he usually stores inside his closet at his home.
Fun ads and announcements
« It was 4 pages at the time and noted that there are 4 pages on the weekends as this is said in the magazine, but 8 pages on weekends. »
The first issue was published on Sunday and is therefore his copy of Kjartan 8 pages.
Vilhjálmur Finsen, first editor of Morgunbladid
« They are very funny ads that were there and such announcements.
Kjartan mentions that the editor’s phone number appears on the first page and it was the number 500, but Vilhjálmur Finsen was the first editor and the second founder of Morgunblaðið.
