Gunnlaugur is an
Icelandic given name, originally from
Old Norse
Old Norse, Old Nordic, or Old Scandinavian, is a stage of development of North Germanic dialects before their final divergence into separate Nordic languages. Old Norse was spoken by inhabitants of Scandinavia and their overseas settlemen ...
Gunnlaugr . Notable people with the name include:
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Gunnlaugur Jónsson (born 1974), Icelandic football manager
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Gunnlaugur Scheving
Gunnlaugur Óskar Scheving (8 June 1904 – 9 September 1972) was an Icelandic artist. He was one of Iceland's leading figurative painters and social realist painters of the 20th century. His art was part of a 1930s movement which broke with ...
(1904–1972), Icelandic painter
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Gunnlaugr Leifsson
Gunnlaugr Leifsson (died 1218 or 1219) was an Icelandic scholar, author and poet. He was a Benedictine monk at the Þingeyraklaustur monastery (Icelandic ''Þingeyrarklaustur'') in the north of Iceland. Many sources (including ''Þorvalds þáttur ...
(died c. 1218), Icelandic scholar, author and poet
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Gunnlaugr Ormstunga
Gunnlaugr ormstunga (Old Norse: ; is, Gunnlaugur ormstunga ; "serpent-tongue") was an Icelandic skald. His life is described in '' Gunnlaugs saga ormstungu'', where several of his poems are preserved.
Gunnlaugr was born ca. 983. From an early ag ...
(c. 983–1008), Icelandic poet
See also
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Gunnlaugsson
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Icelandic masculine given names