Sigurjón Pétursson (9 March 1888 – 3 May 1955) was an Icelandic

wrestler Wrestling is a series of combat sports involving grappling-type techniques such as clinch fighting, throws and takedowns, joint locks, pins and other grappling holds. Wrestling techniques have been incorporated into martial arts, combat sport ...

. He competed in the light heavyweight event at the

1912 Summer Olympics The 1912 Summer Olympics ( sv, Olympiska sommarspelen 1912), officially known as the Games of the V Olympiad ( sv, Den V olympiadens spel) and commonly known as Stockholm 1912, were an international multi-sport event held in Stockholm, Sweden, be ...

. Sigurjón later became an industrialist: by 1946 he was the owner of a textile factory at

Álafoss Álafoss (; ''eel falls'') is a waterfall on the river Varmá in Mosfellsbær, Iceland. In culture A wool factory of the same name has adjoined the waterfall since 1896, when a local farmer imported machinery to process wool using the energy f ...

just outside Reykjavik. He also took a keen interest in Icelandic culture and in psychic research. Sigurjón believed that he experienced telepathic communication with, amongst other dead Icelanders, the nineteenth-century Icelandic poet

Jónas Hallgrímsson Jónas Hallgrímsson (16 November 1807 – 26 May 1845) was an Icelandic poet, author and naturalist. He was one of the founders of the Icelandic journal Fjölnir (journal), ''Fjölnir'', which was first published in Copenhagen in 1835. The mag ...

. He concluded that the remains of Jónas should be brought from Denmark, where he died, to his birthplace in Iceland. This debate over this scheme is known in Icelandic as the '' beinamálið'' ('bones question').Jón Karl Helgason, 'A Poet’s Great Return: Jónas Hallgrímsson’s Reburial and Milan Kundera’s ''Ignorance''', ''Scandinavian-Canadian Studies/Études scandinaves au Canada'', 20 (2011), 52-61, http://scancan.net/article.pdf?id=helgason_1_20 (PDF), http://scancan.net/article.htm?id=helgason_1_20 (XHTML).

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* 1888 births 1955 deaths Icelandic male sport wrestlers Olympic wrestlers of Iceland Wrestlers at the 1912 Summer Olympics People from Reykjavík {{Iceland-wrestling-bio-stub