Benedikt Gröndal

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Benedikt Gröndal

Icelandic author

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Icelandic literature
The 19th century
…whom the most outstanding were Benedikt Gröndal, Steingrímur Þorsteinsson, and Matthías Jochumsson. Gröndal wrote powerful lyric poetry, two prose fantasies, and an autobiography, Dægradvöl (1923; “Day-Spending”). Þorsteinsson wrote nature poetry and satiric epigrams but is best remembered as a translator of The Thousand and One Nights
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…whom the most outstanding were Benedikt Gröndal, Steingrímur Þorsteinsson, and Matthías Jochumsson. Gröndal wrote powerful lyric poetry, two prose fantasies, and an autobiography, Dægradvöl (1923; “Day-Spending”). Þorsteinsson wrote nature poetry and satiric epigrams but is best remembered as a translator of The Thousand and One Nights
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