Sigfús Blöndal, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Icelandic librarian
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Place of Birth: Northwestern Region, Iceland
About Sigfús Blöndal
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- Sigfús Blöndal (November 2, 1874 – March 19, 1950) was an Icelandic language author, and a librarian at the Royal Library in Copenhagen, best known for Konunglega bókasafnið (Icelandic-Danish dictionary), which he wrote with his wife, Björg Þorláksdóttir Blöndal, and a small team of scholars, whose names appear on the title page.
- The couple and the other scholars took nearly 20 years to compile the dictionary, which was first published in 1920-1924.
- Two new editions have since been published.
- A supplement was published in 1963 by the editors Halldór Halldórsson and Jakob Benediktsson.
- Blöndalsbókin (Blöndals' book) or Orðabók Blöndals (Blöndals' Dictionary), as it is usually called by Icelanders, is an essential source of the Icelandic language. Dr.
- Blöndal taught Modern Icelandic at the University of Copenhagen from 1931 to 1946.
- He translated many ancient Greek poems into Icelandic, as well as some of the work of the modern Greek poet Aristotelis Valaoritis.
- He did research on the Varangians of the Eastern Roman Empire for 25 years and completed shortly before his death an Icelandic text on the Varangians.
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