Bólu-Hjálmar

Bólu - Hjálmar (actually Hjálmar Jónsson; born September 29, 1796 in Halland, Eyjafjörður; † July 25, 1875 in Víðimýri, Skagafjordur ) was an Icelandic poet.

Life

Hjálmar was the illegitimate son of a beggar and was raised by a peasant woman. As an adult, he was also farmer in Bólstaðargerði, but lived his life in poverty. All the time he was in dispute with his large peasant neighbors who under him to be a thief. His satirical poems and Rímur were only posthumously, in 1879, published.

Hjálmar was married and had seven children.

Swell

• Horst Bien include: Meyers Taschenlexikon North European literatures. Leipzig 1978

• Author
• Literature ( Icelandic)
• Poetry
• Born in 1796
• Died in 1875
• Man