Icelandic Poet
1. Þorsteinn Erlingsson (1858)
Icelandic Poet
Þorsteinn Erlingsson was an Icelandic poet. He graduated from Menntaskólinn í Reykjavík in 1883 and went to Copenhagen to study law. He never finished law school but during his time...
2. Gunnlaugr Ormstunga (1970)
Icelandic Poet
Gunnlaugr Ormstunga was an Icelandic poet born ca. 983. His life is described in Gunnlaugs saga ormstungu where several of his poems are preserved. From an early age he proved...
3. Sveinbjörn Egilsson (1791)
Icelandic Poet
Sveinbjörn Egilsson was an Icelandic theologian classicist teacher translator and poet. He is best known for the work he did during his time as the rector of The Learned School...
4. Tómas Guðmundsson (1901)
Icelandic Poet
Tómas Guðmundsson was an Icelandic author. He was known as Reykjavík's poet. Tómas's parents were Steinunn Þorsteinsdóttir and Guðmundur Ögmundsson living at Efri-Brú in Grímsnes. He soon got in touch...
5. Kristjan Niels Julius (1860)
Icelandic Poet
Kristjan Niels K. N. Julius was a satirical poet from Iceland who later lived in the U. S. State of North Dakota. He was born April April 7 1860 and...
6. Ari Jósefsson (1939)
Icelandic Poet
Ari Jósefsson was an Icelandic poet. He was a student of romance studies in Barcelona and Bucharest and published only one book of poetry during his lifetime. Jósefsson disappeared from...
7. Steinn Steinarr (1908)
Icelandic Poet
Steinn Steinarr was an Icelandic poet. Many Icelanders regard Steinn Steinarr as their greatest poet although he remains almost unknown outside of Iceland due perhaps to a lack of effective...
8. Kolbeinn Tumason (1173)
Icelandic Poet
Kolbeinn Tumason was a member of the Ásbirningar family clan and was one of the most powerful chieftains in Iceland around the turn of the 12th century. His power was...
9. Einar Benediktsson (1864)
Icelandic Poet
Einar Benediktsson was an Icelandic poet and lawyer. Einar Benediktsson's poetry was a significant contribution in the nationlistic revival leading to Iceland's independence. To this end he was active both...
10. Einar Bragi (1921)
Icelandic Poet
Einar Bragi was an Icelandic poet and publisher. He was a modernist who founded and edited the journal Birtingur the leading forum for modernism in Iceland at the time....
11. Jón Óskar (1921)
Icelandic Poet
Jón Óskar was an Icelandic poet born in Akranes. Óskar is typically categorised as one of the Icelandic Atom Poets. In addition to his poetry he and his short stories...
12. Hannes Sigfússon (Unknow)
Icelandic Poet
Hannes Sigfússon was an Icelandic poet and writer. He was an editor of Birtingur the journal of the Atom Poets. In addition to his poetry Sigfússon published novels and memoirs...
13. Jóhann Gunnar Sigurðsson (1882)
Icelandic Poet
Jóhann Gunnar Sigurðsson was an Icelandic poet. A new New Romantic-style writer Sigurðsson studied at the Menntaskólinn í Reykjavík until 1903.
14. Grímur Thomsen (1820)
Icelandic Poet
Grímur Thomsen Icelandic poet and editor was born in Bessastaðir in 1820. He was the son of Þorgrímur Tómasson a goldsmith. In 1837 he went to the University of Copenhagen...
15. Sigurður Breiðfjörð (1798)
Icelandic Poet
Sigurður Breiðfjörð was an Icelandic poet. He learned cooperage for four years in Copenhagen and worked as a cooper in Iceland and Greenland. He was a prolific and popular traditional...
16. Egill Skallagrímsson (1970)
Icelandic Poet
Egill Skallagrímsson also known as Egil Skallagrimsson was a Viking Age poet warrior and farmer. He is also the protagonist of the eponymous Egil's Saga. Egil's Saga historically narrates a...
17. Bólu-Hjálmar (1796)
Icelandic Poet
Hjálmar Jónsson better known as Bólu-Hjálmar was a 19th-century Icelandic farmer and poet known for his sharp style and biting wit and for his mastery of the short Icelandic poetic...
18. Baldur Ragnarsson (1930)
Icelandic Poet
Baldur Ragnarsson is an Icelandic poet and author of Esperanto works. He was a teacher and a superintendent of schools in Iceland.
19. Hulda (poet) (Unknow)
Icelandic Poet
Unnur Benediktsdóttir Bjarklind who wrote as Hulda was an Icelandic poet and prose writer. A proponent of symbolism she was the most prominent figure in a group of writers who...
