Sigurður Breiðfjörð
Illustration — No pictures were made of Sigurður while he was alive but after his death Helgi Sigurðsson á Melum made a pencil drawing of him from memory. Sigurður Breiðfjörð (4 March 1798 – 1846) was an Icelandic poet. He learned cooperage for four years in Copenhagen and worked as a cooper in Iceland and Greenland.
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Sigurður Breiðfjörð
As Sunnanfari notes, no likeness of Sigurður Breiðfjörð was made while he was alive. After his death, Helgi Sigurðsson á Melum (1815-1888), made a pencil drawing of him from memory and the image publi · Obtained from Sunnanfari, June 1895. · Public domain
- Full name
- Sigurður Eiríksson.
- Born
- 1798. · Breiðafjörður.
- Died
- 1846. · Reykjavík.
- Nationality
- Iceland.
- Occupation
- poet and writer.
- Languages
- Icelandic.
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Illustration — No pictures were made of Sigurður while he was alive but after his death Helgi Sigurðsson á Melum made a pencil drawing of him from memory. Sigurður Breiðfjörð (4 March 1798 – 1846) was an Icelandic poet. He learned cooperage for four years in Copenhagen and worked as a cooper in Iceland and Greenland.
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Recorded at birth as Sigurður Eiríksson. Born at Breiðafjörður in 1798, died in Reykjavík in 1846.
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