Willard Fiske (seated left) and his traveling companions, Arthur Middleton Reeves and William H. Carpenter. The Icelandic poet and translator MatthÃas Jochumsson, author of the words of the Icelandic national anthem, is seated at right.; Willard Fiske (seated left) and his traveling companions, Arthur Middleton Reeves and William H. Carpenter. The Icelandic poet and translator Matthias Jochumsson, author of the words of the Icelandic national anthem, is seated at right.