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    Arngrímur Jónsson the Learned (Icelandic: Arngrímur Jónsson hinn lærði; 1568 – 27 June 1648) was an Icelandic scholar and a Christian apologist. His father...
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  • to: Arnar Jónsson (actor) (born 1943), Icelandic actor Arnar Jónsson (basketball) (born 1983), Icelandic basketball player Arngrímur Jónsson “The Learned”...
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    authorship of the Prose Edda was upheld by the renaissance scholar Arngrímur Jónsson (1568–1648), and since his time it has generally been accepted without...
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  • written in Latin and Danish in the 1600s included works by Arngrímur Jónsson, Runólfur Jónsson and Olaus Wormius. Content from these along with Icelandic...
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  • saga (and continues where Sögubrot ends) is Arngrimur's Ad catalogum regum Sveciæ annotanda. Arngrímur Jónsson paraphrased parts of it into Latin, and parts...
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  • the Skjöldunga saga, but it survives only in a Latin summary by Arngrímur Jónsson. According to Anglo-Saxon legends recounted in Widsith and other sources...
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    Kraki's saga does not mention where he came from, but according to Arngrímur Jónsson, Heoroweard was the king of Öland and according to Saxo, he became...
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  • Saga of the Skjöldungs is lost but in the end of the 16th century, Arngrímur Jónsson saved a piece of information from this saga in Latin. He wrote: There...
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    ac.uk. Retrieved 13 June 2018. "Arngrímur Jónsson 1568-1648". worldcat.org. Retrieved 13 June 2018. "Arngrímur Jónsson | Icelandic writer". Encyclopedia...
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    mostly in Latin with some Old Danish and Old Icelandic passages, Arngrímur Jónsson explains the Scandinavian and Icelandic belief in elves (called Allffuafolch)...
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    a Latin summary by Arngrímur Jónsson, and so the two versions are basically the same, the main difference being that Arngrímur's version is more terse...
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    most well-known priests who served in Mælifell parish was Arngrímur lærði (“the learned”) Jónsson. There is now a little stone church in Mælifell that was...
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    of issue Front side Back side Watermark 10 krona 130 × 70 mm Blue Arngrímur Jónsson the Learned Old Icelandic household scene based on Auguste Mayer's...
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    a Latin summary by Arngrímur Jónsson, and so the two versions are basically the same, the main difference being that Arngrímur's version is more terse...
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    Ynglinga saga, in Chronicon Lethrense, in Sven Aggesen's history, in Arngrímur Jónsson's Latin abstract of the lost Skjöldunga saga and in Saxo Grammaticus'...
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    "ice-land") is a book in Latin written by the Icelandic scholar Arngrímur Jónsson and published in Hamburg in 1609 and again in 1610. It was the first...
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    of spiritual songs, in 1612. He also published several writings by Arngrímur Jónsson. Guðbrandur was a well-rounded scholar with an interest in natural...
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    original version is lost, but it survives in a Latin summary by Arngrímur Jónsson. Arngrímur's summary relates that Eadgils, called Adillus, married Yrsa with...
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  • Danp." The poem breaks off incomplete at that point. According to Arngrímur Jónsson's Latin epitome of the lost Skjöldungasaga, made in 1597: Ríg (Rigus)...
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  • peninsula. 1592 23 May – Mariager is incorporated as a market town. 1593 Arngrímur Jónsson publishes Brevis commentarius de Islandia, a Brief Commentary on Iceland...
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    was obtained by the runologist Ole Worm from the Icelandic scholar Arngrímur Jónsson in 1628, according to an inscription on the first page of the work...
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    seen in the two other sources that mention this Rígr. According to Arngrímur Jónsson's Latin epitome of the lost Skjöldungasaga: Ríg (Rigus) was a man not...
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  • d/p) Arngrímur Jónsson (1568–1648, Iceland, nf) Karl Jónsson (1135–1213, Iceland, nf/p) Finnur Jónsson (1858–1934, Iceland, nf) Gísli Rúnar Jónsson (1953–2020...
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  • slain by Halfdan's sons Helgi (Halga) and Hroar (Hrothgar). (In Arngrímur Jónsson's Latin summary to the lost Skjöldunga saga the names Fróði and Ingjald...
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  • The Learned is an epithet which may refer to: Arngrímur Jónsson (1568–1648), Icelandic scholar and apologist Coloman, King of Hungary (c. 1070–1116),...
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  • The Skjöldunga saga is lost but at the end of the 16th century, Arngrímur Jónsson saved a piece of information from this saga in Latin. He wrote: "There...
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  • accompanying merchants from Hamburg; this is, however, not certain. Arngrímur Jónsson, a contemporary Icelandic scholar, was a fierce critic of Blefken's...
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  • Vatnshyrna by Arngrímur Jónsson in his 1609 work, Crymogaea, possibly because it was located at that time at Stóra Vatnshorn. Arngrímur refers to the...
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    associate the wife of Hrothgar with England. The Skjöldunga saga, in Arngrímur Jónsson's abstract, chapter 3, tells that Hrothgar (Roas) married the daughter...
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    written and published in Denmark in 1593 by the Icelandic scholar Arngrímur Jónsson. It is a "Defense of Iceland", in which he criticized the works of...
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