Author · Iceland
Hallgrímur Pétursson
Died in 1674
Hallgrímur Pétursson was born in 1614 and grew up at Hólar, an episcopal see where his father rang the bells. He left for Copenhagen as a blacksmith's apprentice and studied at the Church of Our Lady school thanks to Brynjólfur Sveinsson. Asked to bring back to the faith Icelanders ransomed from the pirates of Algiers, he fell in love with one of them, Guðríður Símonardóttir, whom he married in Iceland. A labourer and fisherman, then pastor at Hvalsnes and Saurbær, he died of leprosy on 27 October 1674 at Ferstikla.
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- PoetryHymns of the PassionPassíusálmarHallgrímur Pétursson · 1666Literature