Guðmundur Friðjónsson

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Guðmundur Friðjónsson (born October 24, 1869 in Sílalækur , Aðaldalur , today Þingeyjarsveit ; † June 24, 1944 in Húsavík ) was an Icelandic writer .

Life

Guðmundur was the son of the farmer Friðjón Jónsson and his wife Sigurbjörg Guðmundsdottír. Like his parents, Guðmundur later earned his living as a farmer. One of his siblings was Sigurjón , who was two years his senior and who was also known as a writer. In the 1880s, Iceland experienced a famine that shaped Guðmundur's early literary work. From 1891 to 1893 he attended a school in Möðruvellir .

In the early 1890s, Guðmundur began writing poetry and short stories. Many of them are designed as socially critical satires. Others were based on symbolism . He published his works in magazines and in 1898 in his first book, the Einir collection of short stories .

His marriage to Guðrun Oddsdóttir in 1899 is considered to be a turning point in his writing. If his early stories were still immature, this has now changed, even if his volume of poetry Úr heimahögum, published in 1902, was panned in a review in the journal Þjóðolfur . Guðmundur published numerous books with short stories and poems and in 1907 the novel Olöf í Ási . His work was influenced by old Icelandic literature and realism . Politically, Guðmundur - in contrast to Halldór Laxness , whose views he rejected - were more conservative.

Works

Poems

  • Úr heimahögum (1902)
  • Haustlöng (1905)
  • Kvædi (1925)
  • Kveðlingar (1929)
  • Utan af víðavangi (1942)

Short prose

  • Einir (1898)
  • Undir BER lofti (1904)
  • Tólf Sögur (1915)
  • Tíu Sögur (1918)
  • Úr öllum áttum (1919)
  • Sólhvörf (1921)
  • Kveldglæður (1923)
  • Heðan and handan (1925)
  • Sögur úr bygð og borg (1934)
  • Úti á víðavangi (1938)

Essays

  • Uppsprettulindir (1921)

Novels

  • Olöf i Ási (1907)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Guðmundur Friðjónsson in Páll Eggert Ólason: Íslenzkar æviskrár frá landnámstímum til ársloka 1940 . Reykjavík, 1948-1976
  2. ↑ a b c d e Guðmundur Friðjónsson in Stefán Einarsson: History of Icelandic prose writers . Cornell University Press, Ithaca 1948
  3. ↑ Ernst Walter: Friðjónsson, Guðmundur in Horst Bien (ed.): Meyers Taschenlexikon Nordeuropean Literaturen , Leipzig 1978
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 Guðmundur Friðjónsson
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Icelandic writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 24, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Sílalækur , Aðaldalur (now Þingeyjarsveit ), Iceland
DATE OF DEATH June 24, 1944
Place of death Húsavík , Iceland