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Guðbrandur Vigfússon, Icelandic linguist, born 13 March 1827, died 31 Jan 1889.

1850 student in Copenhagen
1864 invited to England to complete the Icelandic-English dictionary begun by R. Cleasby. Vigfusson completed this work in 1874. "He had earlier revised Sveinbjörn Egilsson's Lexicon poeticum"
1866 settled in Oxford
1871 M.A. from Oxford University
1877 Honorary doctor at Upsala University
1884 professor at Oxford

Works

Um timatal i islendingasögum i fornöld, 1855

Biskupa sögur, 1858--1862

published by Vigfusson

Eyrbyggja saga, 1864

published by Vigfusson

Fornsögur, 1866

published by Vigfusson together with Möbius (who?)

Flatöboken, 3 vol., 1860--1868

(should be flateyarbok?)

published by Vigfusson

Sturlunga saga, 2 vol., 1878

published by Vigfusson

Corpus poeticum boreale. The poetry of the old northern tongue from the earliest times to the 13th century, 2 vol., 1883

Icelandic sagas, 2 vol., 1887

Vigfusson planned for more volumes, but died after two were published

Jón Árnason, Islenzkar þjoðsögur og æfintýri, 1862--1864

published by Vigfusson together with K. Maurer

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