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Eggert Ólafsson. Vilhjálmur Þ. Gíslason recorded.
Eggert Ólafsson (December 1, 1726 – May 30, 1768) was a poet, writer and naturalist from Svefneyjar in Breiðafjörður. He was one of the heralds of the Enlightenment in Iceland. Eggert's sister Rannveig was the wife of Reverend Björn Halldórsson in Sauðlauksdalur.
Eggert was the eldest son of Ólafur Gunnlaugsson and Ragnhildur Sigurðardóttir, who ran a farm in Svefneyjar in Breiðafjörður. His siblings were Magnús Ólafsson, a lawyer in the south and east, Jón Ólafsson, a "learned" archaeologist in Copenhagen, Guðrún Ólafsdóttir, Rannveig Ólafsdóttir, and Jón Ólafsson, a junior student in Copenhagen.
Eggert was appointed to office late, but in 1767 he was appointed deputy attorney general for the south and east. That same autumn he married Ingibjörg Guðmundsdóttir, daughter of magistrate Guðmundur Sigurðsson, who was his maternal uncle. They both drowned in Breiðafjörður the following year.
Eggert studied philosophy at Hafnarháskóli, and also studied archaeology, grammar, law, jurisprudence, natural sciences, and agriculture.
Eggert wrote on various subjects, not all of which have been published. He is also considered an innovator in drafting uniform spelling rules, but those rules are quite different from those we follow today. He is also considered to be the greatest language preservationist of the 18th century, as well as a nationalist.
Eggert went on research trips around Iceland with Bjarni Pálsson in the years 1752-1757, on behalf of the Royal Danish Scientific Society. During these trips, they explored the nature of the country but also its general condition and made suggestions for improvement. In the winter, he stayed in Viðey with the landfögeta Skúli Magnússon - just as Árni Magnússon had stayed in Skálholt half a century earlier between his trips around the country. Bjarni was appointed the first medical director of Iceland in 1760, but Eggert was responsible for completing the companions' travelogue in Danish in Copenhagen from 1760 to 1766 with a grant from the Árna Fund. The book was published in 1772. Two years later, the book was published in German, in French in 1802 and parts of it in English in 1805. It was published in Icelandic in 1942.
Eggert's contemporaries published some of his works after his death. His brother-in-law Björn and his brother Magnús published the gardening book Stutt ágrip úr lachanologia és més maturtabók in 1774, and his best-known poem, Búnaðarbálkur, was published in Hrappsey in 1783. A complete edition of Eggert's poems was first published in 1953.
A considerable number of Eggert's writings are preserved in manuscripts. The National Library of Iceland's manuscript collection contains the cookbook Pipar í slömn mat (Lbs 857 8vo), written in the 1760s and therefore probably the oldest cookbook ever written in Icelandic. It also contains Uppkast til forsagna um hruðvðussiðu hér á landi from 1760 (Lbs 551 4to). The National Library of Scotland's manuscript collection in Edinburgh preserves Eggert's autograph manuscript of the Icelandic Drink Book, dated 1761, which was previously in Finn Magnússon's manuscript collection in Copenhagen (Adv.MS.21.3.15). Eggert may have written that book in parallel with work on the Travelogue in Copenhagen.
Eggert Ólafsson (December 1, 1726 – May 30, 1768) was a poet, writer and naturalist from Svefneyjar in Breiðafjörður. He was one of the heralds of the Enlightenment in Iceland. Eggert's sister Rannveig was the wife of Reverend Björn Halldórsson in Sauðlauksdalur.
Eggert was the eldest son of Ólafur Gunnlaugsson and Ragnhildur Sigurðardóttir, who ran a farm in Svefneyjar in Breiðafjörður. His siblings were Magnús Ólafsson, a lawyer in the south and east, Jón Ólafsson, a "learned" archaeologist in Copenhagen, Guðrún Ólafsdóttir, Rannveig Ólafsdóttir, and Jón Ólafsson, a junior student in Copenhagen.
Eggert was appointed to office late, but in 1767 he was appointed deputy attorney general for the south and east. That same autumn he married Ingibjörg Guðmundsdóttir, daughter of magistrate Guðmundur Sigurðsson, who was his maternal uncle. They both drowned in Breiðafjörður the following year.
Eggert studied philosophy at Hafnarháskóli, and also studied archaeology, grammar, law, jurisprudence, natural sciences, and agriculture.
Eggert wrote on various subjects, not all of which have been published. He is also considered an innovator in drafting uniform spelling rules, but those rules are quite different from those we follow today. He is also considered to be the greatest language preservationist of the 18th century, as well as a nationalist.
Eggert went on research trips around Iceland with Bjarni Pálsson in the years 1752-1757, on behalf of the Royal Danish Scientific Society. During these trips, they explored the nature of the country but also its general condition and made suggestions for improvement. In the winter, he stayed in Viðey with the landfögeta Skúli Magnússon - just as Árni Magnússon had stayed in Skálholt half a century earlier between his trips around the country. Bjarni was appointed the first medical director of Iceland in 1760, but Eggert was responsible for completing the companions' travelogue in Danish in Copenhagen from 1760 to 1766 with a grant from the Árna Fund. The book was published in 1772. Two years later, the book was published in German, in French in 1802 and parts of it in English in 1805. It was published in Icelandic in 1942.
Eggert's contemporaries published some of his works after his death. His brother-in-law Björn and his brother Magnús published the gardening book Stutt ágrip úr lachanologia és més maturtabók in 1774, and his best-known poem, Búnaðarbálkur, was published in Hrappsey in 1783. A complete edition of Eggert's poems was first published in 1953.
A considerable number of Eggert's writings are preserved in manuscripts. The National Library of Iceland's manuscript collection contains the cookbook Pipar í slömn mat (Lbs 857 8vo), written in the 1760s and therefore probably the oldest cookbook ever written in Icelandic. It also contains Uppkast til forsagna um hruðvðussiðu hér á landi from 1760 (Lbs 551 4to). The National Library of Scotland's manuscript collection in Edinburgh preserves Eggert's autograph manuscript of the Icelandic Drink Book, dated 1761, which was previously in Finn Magnússon's manuscript collection in Copenhagen (Adv.MS.21.3.15). Eggert may have written that book in parallel with work on the Travelogue in Copenhagen.