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Sigurður Breiðfjörð

Icelandic poet
Sigurður Breiðfjörð was an Icelandic poet. He learned cooperage for four years in Copenhagen and worked as a cooper in Iceland and Greenland. He was a prolific and popular traditional poet, known for his rímur cycles. Núma rímur is his best-known... Wikipedia
Born: March 4, 1798, Breiðafjörður, Iceland
Died: 1846 (age 48 years), Reykjavík, Iceland