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Grettisfærsal. A collection of essays by Ólafur Halldórsson. Published on his seventieth birthday, April 18, 1990.
Ólafur was born in Krókur in Gaulverjabæjarhreppur (now Flóahreppur), the son of Halldór Bjarnason and Lilja Ólafsdóttir, who lived there. He completed his matriculation examination from MA in 1946 and his cand. mag. in Icelandic studies from the University of Iceland in 1952. He then went to Copenhagen where he specialized in manuscript reading with Professor Jón Helgason and worked as an assistant professor at the University of Copenhagen. He completed his doctorate from the University of Iceland in 1980, and his doctoral thesis was entitled Greenland in medieval manuscripts.
Ólafur moved to Iceland in 1963 and worked on manuscript research at the Icelandic Manuscript Institute, from 1969 to the Árni Magnússon Institute, until he was seventy. After that, he worked independently and had a reading room at the institute. He worked for decades on research on manuscripts, texts and versions of ancient sagas. Ólafur was elected a member of the Icelandic Scientific Society in 1975, and in 2010 he was honored at the Faroese Cultural Festival in Reykjavík for his work on the cultural relations between the Faroese and Icelandic peoples. The same year, the Árni Magnússon Institute held a symposium in his honor.
Ólafur's wife was Aðalbjörg Vilfríður Karlsdóttir (August 29, 1925 – March 3, 1998) from Húsavík.
Ólafur was born in Krókur in Gaulverjabæjarhreppur (now Flóahreppur), the son of Halldór Bjarnason and Lilja Ólafsdóttir, who lived there. He completed his matriculation examination from MA in 1946 and his cand. mag. in Icelandic studies from the University of Iceland in 1952. He then went to Copenhagen where he specialized in manuscript reading with Professor Jón Helgason and worked as an assistant professor at the University of Copenhagen. He completed his doctorate from the University of Iceland in 1980, and his doctoral thesis was entitled Greenland in medieval manuscripts.
Ólafur moved to Iceland in 1963 and worked on manuscript research at the Icelandic Manuscript Institute, from 1969 to the Árni Magnússon Institute, until he was seventy. After that, he worked independently and had a reading room at the institute. He worked for decades on research on manuscripts, texts and versions of ancient sagas. Ólafur was elected a member of the Icelandic Scientific Society in 1975, and in 2010 he was honored at the Faroese Cultural Festival in Reykjavík for his work on the cultural relations between the Faroese and Icelandic peoples. The same year, the Árni Magnússon Institute held a symposium in his honor.
Ólafur's wife was Aðalbjörg Vilfríður Karlsdóttir (August 29, 1925 – March 3, 1998) from Húsavík.