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Bólu-Hjálmar
Hjálmar Jónsson (29 September 1796 – 25 July 1875), better known as Bólu-Hjálmar (after his homestead in ''Bóla''), 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 narrative style known as Rímur. Hjálmar was born in Hallandi in Eyjafjörður. His parents, Marsibil Semingsdóttir and Jón Benediktsson, were poor and unmarried, and he spent the first eight years of his life at the farm of Dálksstaðir, where he was raised by the widow Sigríður Jónsdóttir. He had little formal education, but he soon became an avid reader of the sagas and eddas. Hjálmar married Guðný Ólafsdóttir, and the pair began farming at Bakki in Öxnadalur. In 1829, they moved to Bóla (''Bólstaðargerði'') in Skagafjörður, from whence his nickname ''Bólu-Hjálmar'' was derived. The family had difficulty making ends meet, and Hjálmar was constantly engaged in disputes with his neighbours, who accus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bóla
Bóla is an abandoned farm in Blönduhlíð in Skagafjörður, Iceland that was a smallholding from Uppsala previously named . It was abandoned for most of the 18th century and up until 1833, when the poet Bólu-Hjálmar, Hjálmar Jónsson lived on the farm, which he first called , but later named Bóla, which it was called from then on. The river flows a short distance from the farm and creates seven waterfalls down a massive gorge, . According to folklore, the troll woman Bóla lived there. Bóla is best known for being the residence of who lived there from 1833–1843, but his residency there ended after he was suspected of theft. Hjálmar’s memorial was erected in Bóla in 1955. The farm has been abandoned since 1976. Notes : This is not a reference to Uppsala in Sweden, but a place in Iceland that, at one time, was called Uppsala. References {{Authority control Skagafjörður Farms in Iceland ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |