Þorsteinn Erlingsson

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Þorsteinn Erlingsson (born September 27, 1858 in Stóra Mörk , Rangárvallasýsla ; † September 28, 1914 in Reykjavík ) was an Icelandic writer who mainly wrote poems and songs .

Life

Þorsteinn's parents were the farmer Erlingur Pálsson and his wife Þuriður Jónsdottir . Because of the poverty of his parents, he grew up with his grandmother in Fljótshlíð . From 1877 to 1883 he attended a school in Reykjavík. He then began to study law and Old Norse philology in Copenhagen , but did not finish his studies. He works as a journalist as well as a private teacher and wrote his first poems.

Þorsteinn's work is influenced by romanticism and realism , which he met in Denmark . As a socialist , he criticized monarchy and capitalism , the Danish rule in Iceland and the church . In addition to socialist songs, he also wrote poems about Iceland's history and nature.

In 1896 he returned to Iceland, where his poems first appeared in book form in 1897 under the title Þyrnar . He worked as a journalist in Seyðisfjörður and Bíldudalur . At the turn of the millennium he also published a newspaper. In 1903 he settled in Reykjavík, where he died of pneumonia in 1914 .

Posthumously published in 1928 Málleysingjar , a collection of short stories, and in 1958 collected works.

Þorsteinn also worked as a translator. Among other things, he translated Gulliver's Travels and Rudolf Erich Raspe's Münchhausen stories into Icelandic .

Works

  • Þyrnar (poems, 1897)
  • Eiðurinn (poems, 1913)
  • Mállesyingjar ( short stories, 1928)
  • Rit (collected works in 3 volumes, 1958)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Þorsteinn Erlingsson in Páll Eggert Ólason: Íslenzkar æviskrár frá landnámstímum til ársloka 1940 . Reykjavík, 1948-1976
  2. ↑ a b c d biography on ljod.is
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g Ernst Walter: Erlingsson, Þorsteinn in Horst Bien (ed.): Meyers Taschenlexikon Nordeuropean Literaturen , Leipzig 1978
  4. ↑ a b Valtyr Gudmundsson: Iceland at the beginning of the 20th century . Dogma, Bremen 2012, p. 87
Note: Icelanders are referred to by their first name or first and last name, but not just their surname. Further information can be found under Icelandic personal name .
personal data
SURNAME Þorsteinn Erlingsson
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Þorstein Erlingsson
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Icelandic writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 27, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH Stóra Mörk , Rangárvallasýsla , Iceland
DATE OF DEATH September 28, 1914
Place of death Reykjavík , Iceland