Sigurður Breiðfjörð
   HOME

TheInfoList



OR:

Sigurður Breiðfjörð (4 March 1798 – 1846) 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 poet, known for his ''
rímur In Icelandic literature, a ''ríma'' (, literally "a rhyme", pl. ''rímur'', ) is an epic poem written in any of the so-called ''rímnahættir'' (, "rímur meters"). They are rhymed, they alliterate and consist of two to four lines per stanza. T ...
'' cycles. ''Núma rímur'' is his best-known work.


References

* Neijmann, Daisy L. (1996). ''The Icelandic Voice in Canadian Letters : The Contribution of Icelandic-Canadian Writers to Canadian Literature.'' McGill-Queen's Press.
Sigurður Breiðfjörð


Sigurdur Breidfjord 1798 births 1846 deaths Sigurdur Breidfjord Sigurdur Breidfjord {{Iceland-poet-stub