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Eiríkur Örn Pálsson
Eiríkur is an Icelandic masculine given name. Notable people with the name include: * Eirikur Gilstón Corfitz Andersen (born 1984), Faroese musician * Eiríkur Benedikz (1907–1988), Icelandic scholar * Eirikur Bergmann (born 1969), Icelandic academic and writer * Eiríkur Björn Björgvinsson (born 1966), Icelandic politician * Eiríkur Hauksson (born 1959), Icelandic heavy metal vocalist * Eiríkur Magnússon (1833–1913), Icelandic scholar * Eiríkur Önundarson (born 1974), Icelandic former basketball player * Eiríkur Örn Norðdahl (born 1978), Icelandic writer * Eiríkur Rögnvaldsson (born 1955) is an Icelandic linguist * Eiríkur í Vogsósum (1637–1716), Icelandic priest See also * Eiríkr Hákonarson Erik Hakonsson, also known as Eric of Hlathir or Eric of Norway (; 960s – 1020s), was Earl of Lade, Governor of Norway and Earl of Northumbria. He was the son of Earl Hákon Sigurðarson and brother of the legendary Aud Haakonsdottir of Lade. ... Giv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Icelandic Language
Icelandic ( ; , ) is a North Germanic languages, North Germanic language from the Indo-European languages, Indo-European language family spoken by about 314,000 people, the vast majority of whom live in Iceland, where it is the national language. Since it is a West Scandinavian languages, West Scandinavian language, it is most closely related to Faroese language, Faroese, western Norwegian dialects, and the extinct language Norn language, Norn. It is not mutually intelligible with the continental Scandinavian languages (Danish language, Danish, Norwegian language, Norwegian, and Swedish language, Swedish) and is more distinct from the most widely spoken Germanic languages, English language, English and German language, German. The written forms of Icelandic and Faroese are very similar, but their spoken forms are not Mutual intelligibility, mutually intelligible. The language is more Linguistic conservatism, conservative than most other Germanic languages. While most of them hav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eirikur Gilstón Corfitz Andersen
Eirikur Gilstón Corfitz Andersen (born 16 December 1984) is a Faroese musician, best known for his work as the bassist and backing vocalist of the alternative rock band The Dreams. He is the founder of the band along with Hans Edward Andreasen and Heini Mortensen. Early life with Zink Eirikur was born in Tórshavn, Faroe Islands. Son of Birger Steen Corfitz Andersen and Malan Sigrun Olafsdóttir Gilstón Andersen. He has two brothers, Heini and Ólavur. His brother Heini is also a musician, they are now both members of The Dreams. Eirikur learned to play the bass when his brother Heini Corfitz Andersen already knew how to play the guitar, he also knows how to play the guitar. Eirikur worked in a nursery earlier. Eirikur was the bassist in the former Faroese band "Zink" from 2004 to 2005. The band was established in 2003 with four band members: Hans Edward Andreasen, Heini Mortensen, Heðin Egholm Skov and Edmund í Garði. When Heðin left the band in 2004, Eirikur replaced ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eiríkur Benedikz
Eiríkur Benedikz (1907–1988) was an Icelandic scholar, diplomat and book collector. He left his library of around 3000 items of Icelandica to the University of Nottingham library, where it is housed among the Manuscripts and Special Collections University of Nottingham Library. Works * ''An anthology of Icelandic poetry'', 1969.References External links Benedikz Collection of Icela ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eirikur Bergmann
Eirikur Bergmann (Eiríkur Bergmann Einarsson; born 6 February 1969) is an Icelandic academic and writer. He is author of ten academic books and three novels. Early life and education Eirikur Bergmann was born in Reykjavík in 1969 and studied political science at the University of Iceland and Copenhagen University. Academics Eirikur Bergmann is Professor of Politics and Director of the Centre for European Studies at Bifröst University. He was awarded Cand.Sci.Pol degree from Copenhagen University in 1998 and Ph.D. in Political Science from University of Iceland in 2009. Bergmann has been a visiting fellow at many academic institutions, including visiting professor in the Faculty of Social Science at the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia. Bergmann is mainly known for his analysis of Nativist Populism, which he argues has turned into a distinctive form of Neo-nationalism in the post-Second World War era. He has also researched Conspiracy Theories, European Integration an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eiríkur Björn Björgvinsson
Eiríkur Björn Björgvinsson (born 6 September 1966) is an Icelandic politician who was elected to the Althing in the 2024 Icelandic parliamentary election. He is also a former mayor of Akureyri and Fljótsdalshérað. Eiríkur Björn graduated from Fjölbrautskólinn at Ármúli in 1987, completing a physical education teacher's degree at primary and secondary school level from the Icelandic School of Physical Education in 1990 and a diploma from the German Sport University Cologne The German Sport University Cologne (Deutsche Sporthochschule Köln, DSHS) is a public university located in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Founded in 1947, it is the only higher education institution in Germany focused exclusively on ... in 1994, as well as a diploma in management from the Icelandic University of Education in 2000. Eiríkur Björn was the youth and sports representative of Egilsstaðabær from 1994 to 1996, the sports and leisure representative of Akureyri from 199 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eiríkur Hauksson
Eiríkur Hauksson (born 4 July 1959) is an Icelandic heavy metal vocalist. He represented Iceland at Eurovision in 1986 and in 2007. Career Eiríkur's career as a vocalist began in earnest when the song "Sekur" he wrote and performed with the Icelandic rock group Start was voted the Icelandic song of the year in 1981. In 1984 Eiríkur's metal group Drýsill, released the album "Welcome to the show" which was released in 1000 copies. In 1985 Eiríkur recorded two songs, "Gaggó Vest" and "Gull", written by Gunnar Þórðarson that both became popular in Iceland. Although his interest went with the heavy metal genre, he participated in the pop music scene in Iceland, participating in many group efforts in the 1980s. In 1988 Eiríkur moved to Østfold in Norway to become the vocalist of the power metal group Artch. As their vocalist he's known as Eric Hawk. Their first album, released in 1988, Another return (to Church Hill) received much acclaim by magazines such as Kerrang (5 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eiríkur Magnússon
Eiríkr or Eiríkur Magnússon (1 February 1833 – 24 January 1913) was an Icelandic scholar at the University of Cambridge, who taught Old Norse to William Morris, translated numerous Icelandic sagas into English in collaboration with him, and played an important role in the movement to study the history and literature of the Norsemen in Victorian England. Biography Born in Berufjörður in the east of Iceland, Eiríkr was sent to England in 1862 by the Icelandic Bible Society, and his first translations there were of mediaeval Christian texts. In 1871, with the assistance of Sir Henry Holland, 1st Baronet and of Alexander Beresford Hope, MP for Cambridge, he became an under-librarian at the Cambridge University Library, where he worked until the end of 1909. In 1893 he also became lecturer in Icelandic. Eiríkr lectured and organised famine relief for Iceland in 1875 and 1882 and fell out with Guðbrandur Vigfússon, a fellow Icelandic scholar who was at Oxford and had been ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eiríkur Önundarson
Eiríkur Sverrir Önundarson (born 19 September 1974) is an Icelandic former basketball player and a former member of the Icelandic men's national basketball team. He spent 19 of his 21 seasons with Íþróttafélag Reykjavíkur where he won the Icelandic Cup in 2001 and 2007. Playing career Eiríkur came up through the junior programs of Íþróttafélag Reykjavíkur. He played his first games with the senior team at the age of 17 during the 1991–1992 1. deild karla season. He appeared in 16 games during the season, averaging 10.1 points per game. In 1994, ÍR reached the 1. deild finals where the team faced Þór Akureyri. After losing the first game of the series, 105–82, he helped force game three by scoring 24 points in a 105–83 victory in game two. In the third and deciding game of the series, Þór secured a convincing 98–84 victory, winning the 1. deild championship and promotion to the Úrvalsdeild karla. However, after the season it was decided to expand th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eiríkur Örn Norðdahl
Eiríkur Örn Norðdahl (born 1 July 1978) is an Icelandic writer. For a long time most noted as an experimental poet, in the 2010s he came to prominence as one of Iceland's foremost prose writers. Biography Born in Reykjavík, Eiríkur Örn grew up in Ísafjörður. By Eiríkur's account he committed to a career as a writer around 2000, though he has necessarily often found an income through a wide range of other jobs, experiencing some periods of considerable hardship.S. J. Fowler, ‘ "Prostitutes don’t just get lucky by accident": An Interview with Eiríkur Örn Norðdahl', ''3:AM Magazine'', Sunday, 4 April 2010. http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/maintenant-8-eirikur-orn-norddahl. He lived in Berlin from around 2002-4, and over the next ten years in various northern European countries, most prominently in Helsinki (c. 2006-9) and Oulu (c. 2009-11). In 2004 Eiríkur was a founder member of the Icelandic avant-garde poetry collective Nýhil, which organised poetry events and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eiríkur Rögnvaldsson
Eiríkur Rögnvaldsson (born 1 June 1955 in Sauðárkrókur, Iceland) is an Icelandic linguist and professor of Icelandic at the University of Iceland. He is the author of several prominent works on the Icelandic language, including (“Icelandic phonology”, 1993), (“Icelandic rhyme dictionary”, 1989), and several textbooks for university and high school students. He is also a prominent Icelandic scholar in the field of natural language processing Natural language processing (NLP) is a subfield of computer science and especially artificial intelligence. It is primarily concerned with providing computers with the ability to process data encoded in natural language and is thus closely related ..., having among other things co-authored thIcelandic Parsed Historical Corpus. External links Eiríkur's university website {{DEFAULTSORT:Rognvaldsson, Eirikur Eirikur Rognvaldsson Eirikur Rognvaldsson 1955 births Living people Eirikur Rognvaldsson Natural language processing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eiríkur í Vogsósum
Séra Eiríkur Magnússon í Vogsósum (c.1637(?)/1638–1716), was an Icelandic priest and Galdrmaster. While he was a real person, he has been the subject of many folk tales because of his interest in and study in witchcraft. He is known in Icelandic folklore, where there are many folktales about his alleged magical abilities. He owned the farVogsósar and was the vicar of Selvog church in the parish oSelvogurfrom 1677–1716. Some tales with him as the hero center on his magical duels with Stokkseyrar-Dísa. As a child he attended the Cathedral School at Skálholt to about 1658 and was ordained in 1668 by Bishop Brynjólfur Sveinsson as curate of Arnarboeli. He became the parish priest of Vogsósar in 1667. Folklore and variations One folktale recounts how Eírikur rescued a woman who had been kidnapped by trolls. He is also said to have exorcised the ghost of a woman named Guðrún or Gunna. In life she had owed a man named Vilhjálmur a debt but could not pay it as she was too ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eiríkr Hákonarson
Erik Hakonsson, also known as Eric of Hlathir or Eric of Norway (; 960s – 1020s), was Earl of Lade, Governor of Norway and Earl of Northumbria. He was the son of Earl Hákon Sigurðarson and brother of the legendary Aud Haakonsdottir of Lade. He participated in the Battle of Hjörungavágr, the Battle of Svolder and the conquest of England by King Canute the Great. Name Eric is referred to in various ways in the medieval sources and by modern scholars. He most commonly witnessed charters as ''Yric dux'' ("Duke Eric") but his name is also spelled ''Yric'', ''Yrric'', ''Iric'', ''Eiric'' or ''Eric'' in 11th-century Latin and Old English sources. In Old Norse sources, using normalized orthography, he is most commonly ''Eiríkr jarl'' ("Earl Eric") or ''Eiríkr jarl Hákonarson'', but sometimes as ''Eirekr''. Modern historians usually use a variant of Eiríkr/Eirik/Eric and his patronym, Hákonarson/Hakonarson/Hakonson, meaning "son of Haakon". In modern Norwegian, it would be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
