Jón Ólafsson (other)
Jón Ólafsson may refer to: * Jón Ólafsson of Grunnavík (1705–1779), Icelandic scholar * Jón Ólafsson (journalist) (1850–1916), Icelandic editor, journalist, and poet * Jón Ólafsson (traveller) (–1679), Icelandic traveller to the East Indies * Jón Axel Ólafsson, Icelandic radio personality, producer and manager * Jón Þór Ólafsson (born 1977), Icelandic politician * Jón Ólafsson (athlete) (born 1941), Icelandic Olympic athlete {{hndis, Olafsson, Jon ...
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Jón Ólafsson Of Grunnavík
Jón Ólafsson of Grunnavík (''Jón Ólafsson frá Grunnavík'', also known as ''Jón Grunnvíkingur'' or ''Grunnavíkur-Jón'', 1705–1779) was an Icelandic scholar. Originally from Grunnavík, Westfjords, northwestern Iceland, he was active in Copenhagen, where he served as assistant to Árni Magnússon. He is the author of an Icelandic dictionary and a 1732 ''Runologia'', a treatise on runology. As in the fire of Copenhagen of 1728, the original manuscript of the ''Heiðarvíga saga'' was lost along with a recent copy made by Jón Grunnvíkingur, he wrote down a summary of the saga from memory, which is the only form in which the saga's contents survive today. The character of ''Jón Grindvicensis'' in Halldór Laxness Halldór Kiljan Laxness (; born Halldór Guðjónsson; 23 April 1902 – 8 February 1998) was an Icelandic writer and winner of the 1955 Nobel Prize in Literature. He wrote novels, poetry, newspaper articles, essays, plays, travelogues and sh ...'s hi ...
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