Þorsteinn Erlingsson

Þorsteinn Erlingsson was born on 27 September 1858 at Stóramörk, in the Fljótshlíð, and grew up at Hlíðarendakot with his grandmother. Matthías Jochumsson and Steingrímur Thorsteinsson helped him enter the Reykjavík grammar school in 1877. He took his school-leaving examination in 1883 and studied law, then Nordic languages, in Copenhagen; he lost his grant after a poem of 1887 on Rasmus Rask and left the university without a degree. There he became a socialist and broke with the Christian faith. Back in Iceland, he edited newspapers in Seyðisfjörður and in the West Fjords, then taught in Reykjavík, where he died on 28 September 1914.

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• PoetryÞyrnarÞorsteinn Erlingsson · 1897not translated into EnglishLiterature