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Hallgrímur Scheving

Icelandic author

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Icelandic literature

  • Hallgrímsson, Jónas
    In Icelandic literature: The 19th century

    …men in particular: a philologist, Hallgrímur Scheving; a poet and lexicographer, Sveinbjörn Egilsson; and a philosopher and mathematician, Björn Gunnlaugsson. The principal movement in this renaissance was Romanticism. Inspired by the philosopher Henrik Steffens, Bjarni Thorarensen produced nationalistic poetry that became a model for 19th-century lyrical poetry.

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