See also:

• JONAS, JUSTUS (1493–1555)

JONAS See also:

• JONAS HALLGRIMSSON (1807-1844)

HALLGRIMSSON (1807-1844)  , the See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief lyrical poet of See also:

• ICELAND (Dan. Island)

Iceland, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born in 1807 at Steinsstabir in Eyjafjarbarsysla in the See also:

• NORTH
• NORTH, BARONS
• NORTH, MARIANNE (1830—1890)
• NORTH, ROGER (1653-1734)
• NORTH, SIR THOMAS (1535?-16o1?)

north of that See also:

• ISLAND (O.E. ieg =isle, +land')

island, and educated at the famous school of Bessastabr . In 1832 he went to the university of See also:

• COPENHAGEN (Danish Kjobenhavn)

Copenhagen, and shortly afterwards turned his See also:

• ATTENTION (from Lat. ad-tendo, await, expect; the condition of being " stretched " or " tense ")

attention to the natural sciences, especially See also:

• GEOLOGY (from Gr. yp7, the earth, and Abyor, science)

geology . Having obtained pecuniary assistance from the Danish See also:

• GOVERNMENT
• GOVERNMENT (0. Fr. governement, mod. gouvernement, O. Fr. governer, mod. gouverner, from Lat. gubernare, to steer a ship, guide, rule; cf. Gr. xv(3epvav)

government, he travelled through all Iceland for scientific purposes in the years 1837-1842, and made many interesting See also:

• GEOLOGICAL

geological observations . Most of his writings on geology are in Danish . His renown was, however, not acquired by his writings in that See also:

• LANGUAGE (adapted from the Fr. langage, from langue, tongue, Lat. lingua)

language, but by his Icelandic poems and See also:

• SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short stories . He was well read in See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German literature, See also:

• HEINE, HEINRICH, (1797-1856)

Heine and See also:

• SCHILLER, JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON (1759-18o5)

Schiller being his favourites, and the study of the German masters and the old classical writers of Iceland opened his eyes to the corrupt See also:

• STATE
• STATE, GREAT OFFICERS OF

state of Icelandic See also:

• POETRY

poetry and showed him the way to make it better . The misuse of the Eddie metaphors made the lyrical and epical poetry of the See also:

• DAY (O. Eng. dreg, Ger. Tag; according to the New English Dictionary, " in no way related to the Lat. dies")
• DAY, JOHN (1574-1640?)
• DAY, THOMAS (1748-1789)

day hardly intelligible, and, to make matters worse, the language of the poets was mixed up with words of German and Danish origin . The See also:

• GREAT

great Danish philologist and friend of Iceland, Rasmus See also:

• RASK, RASMUS CHRISTIAN (1787-1832)

Rask, and the poet Bjarni Thorarensen had done much to purify the language, but See also:

• JONAS, JUSTUS (1493–1555)

Jonas See also:

• HALLGRIMSSON, JONAS (1807-1844)

HallgrImsson completed their See also:

• WORK

work by his poems and tales, in a purer language than ever had been written in Iceland since the days of Snorri Sturlason . 'The excesses of Icelandic poetry were specially seen in the so-called rimur, See also:

• BALLADS

ballads of heroes, &c., which were fiercely attacked by JOnas Hallgrimsson, who at last succeeded in converting the educated to his view . Most of the See also:

• PRINCIPAL

principal poems, tales and essays of JOnas Hallgrimsson appeared in the periodical Fjolnir, which he began See also:

• PUBLISHING

publishing at Copenhagen in 1835, together with KonrhS Gfslason, a well-known philologist, and the patriotic See also:

• THOMAS
• THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
• THOMAS (d. 110o)
• THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
• THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
• THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
• THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
• THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
• THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
• THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
• THOMAS, ST
• THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
• THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)

Thomas Saemundsson . Fjolnir had in the beginning a hard struggle against old prejudices, but as the years went by its See also:

• INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)

influence becameenormous; and when it at last ceased, its See also:

• PROGRAMME, or PROGRAM

programme and spirit still lived in Ny Fflagsrit and other patriotic See also:

• PERIODICALS

periodicals which took its See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place . JOnas Hallgrimsson, who died in 1844, is the See also:

• FATHER

father of a See also:

• SEPARATE

separate school in Icelandic lyric poetry .

He introduced See also:

• FOREIGN

foreign thoughts and metres, but at the same See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time revived the metres of the Icelandic classical poets . Although his poetical See also:

• WORKS

works are all comprised in one small See also:

• VOLUME

volume, he strikes every See also:

• STRING

string of the old See also:

• HARP (Fr. harpe; Ger. Harfe; Ital. arpa)

harp of Iceland . (S .