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A Bright World. Poem by Friðrik Hansen.
Friðrik Hansen was born in January 1891 in Sauðá in Skagafjörður. Friðrik grew up in Sauðá with his parents, Christian Hansen and Björga Jóhannesdóttir. The Sauðárs had a rather modest household; times were hard and the eight children needed food and clothing. It became clear early on that Friðrik was endowed with great intelligence. It did not greatly hinder him that he suffered the ordeal of losing his sight as a child, for he recovered before long. His poem, Blindi drengurinn, refers to that experience. Circumstances did not prevent Friðrik from enjoying his schooling either. He attended a junior high school, newly established in Sauðárkrókur, but enrolled in the Icelandic Teachers' College in the fall of 1913 and graduated from there in the spring of 1915.
Friðrik was not yet a graduate when he began to compose verses and attach them to paper in a small notebook. And at one point he struggled with poetry. His first poems that were published can be found in the handwritten student magazine of the Teachers' School. His best-known poems are: Ætti ég hárpu, Ljómar heimur, Vor, Blindi drengurinn, Við sitjum hljóð and Vegavinnummenn.
In 1919 he married Jósefína Erlendsdóttir from Stóra-Giljá in Húnavatnssýsla. They first lived for a year, 1920-21, at Garður in Hegranes, but then moved to Sauðárkrókur. There, Friðriks found the job he had prepared for, teaching children and adolescents. From then until the end of his life, he held a teaching position in Sauðárkrókur, but had previously taught in Torfalækjarhreppur in Húnavatnssýsla.
Jósefína and Friðrik had eight children together, but Jósefína died in 1937. Five years later, Friðrik married Sigríður Eiríksdóttir from Djúpadal in Blönduhlíð. They had four children together. Friðrik died at the age of over sixty.
Friðrik Hansen did not publish a book of poetry during his lifetime, but in 1957 a collection of his poems and free verse was published under the title Ljómar heimur. The book was republished in 1982 under the title Ætti ég hárpu.
Friðrik Hansen was born in January 1891 in Sauðá in Skagafjörður. Friðrik grew up in Sauðá with his parents, Christian Hansen and Björga Jóhannesdóttir. The Sauðárs had a rather modest household; times were hard and the eight children needed food and clothing. It became clear early on that Friðrik was endowed with great intelligence. It did not greatly hinder him that he suffered the ordeal of losing his sight as a child, for he recovered before long. His poem, Blindi drengurinn, refers to that experience. Circumstances did not prevent Friðrik from enjoying his schooling either. He attended a junior high school, newly established in Sauðárkrókur, but enrolled in the Icelandic Teachers' College in the fall of 1913 and graduated from there in the spring of 1915.
Friðrik was not yet a graduate when he began to compose verses and attach them to paper in a small notebook. And at one point he struggled with poetry. His first poems that were published can be found in the handwritten student magazine of the Teachers' School. His best-known poems are: Ætti ég hárpu, Ljómar heimur, Vor, Blindi drengurinn, Við sitjum hljóð and Vegavinnummenn.
In 1919 he married Jósefína Erlendsdóttir from Stóra-Giljá in Húnavatnssýsla. They first lived for a year, 1920-21, at Garður in Hegranes, but then moved to Sauðárkrókur. There, Friðriks found the job he had prepared for, teaching children and adolescents. From then until the end of his life, he held a teaching position in Sauðárkrókur, but had previously taught in Torfalækjarhreppur in Húnavatnssýsla.
Jósefína and Friðrik had eight children together, but Jósefína died in 1937. Five years later, Friðrik married Sigríður Eiríksdóttir from Djúpadal in Blönduhlíð. They had four children together. Friðrik died at the age of over sixty.
Friðrik Hansen did not publish a book of poetry during his lifetime, but in 1957 a collection of his poems and free verse was published under the title Ljómar heimur. The book was republished in 1982 under the title Ætti ég hárpu.