Jón Thoroddsen

Jón Thoroddsen was born at Reykhólar and grew up in north-west Iceland. A law student at the University of Copenhagen from 1841 to 1850, he co-edited there the journal Norðurfari and the poetry anthology Snót, and in 1848 volunteered in the Danish army against the insurgents of Schleswig-Holstein. Back in Iceland in 1850, he became sheriff of Barðastrandarsýsla, then of Borgarfjarðarsýsla. His patriotic poems made his reputation. He died at Leirá on 8 March 1868, leaving a second, unfinished novel, published in 1876.

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• NovelLad and LassPiltur og stúlkaJón Thoroddsen · 1850LiteraturePublic domain