Gudbrandur Vigfússon

Gudbrandur Vigfússon (born March 13, 1827, Dalasýsla, Ice.—died Jan. 31, 1889, Oxford) was one of the 19th century’s foremost scholars of Old Norse, who completed the Richard Cleasby Icelandic–English Dictionary (1874; 2nd ed., 1957) and published editions of a number of Icelandic sagas as well as the collection Corpus poeticum boreale (1883; “Body of Northern Poetry”). Vigfússon studied in Iceland and at the University of Copenhagen but took no degree. As a research fellow at...