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Hermann Pálsson
Hermann Pálsson (26 May 1921 – 11 August 2002) was an Icelandic language scholar and translator, "one of the most distinguished scholars of Icelandic studies of his generation". Often working in collaboration with others such as Magnus Magnusson or Paul Edwards, he translated around 40 works of medieval Icelandic literature.
Life.
Hermann Pálsson was born at Sauðanes á Ásum, a farm near Blönduós and the Húnafjördur in the north of Iceland in 1921. Though he was the sixth of 12 children, and the
Hermann Pálsson) "The book of settlements; Landnámabók". Winnipeg: University of Manitoba, 1972
- (tr. with Hermann Pálsson) "Eyrbyggja saga", Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1973.
- (tr. with Hermann Pálsson) "Egil's saga" by Snorri Sturluson. Harmondworth: Penguin, 1976.
- (tr. with Hermann Pálsson) "Orkneyinga saga : the history of the Earls of Orkney", London: Hogarth Press, 1978.
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