# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/olafia-einarsdottir
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:04:20.605Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/olafia-einarsdottir"
name: "Ólafía Einarsdóttir"
slug: "olafia-einarsdottir"
description: "Ólafía Einarsdóttir was an Icelandic archaeologist and historian, specialising in Icelandic chronology. She was the first Icelander to complete a degree in archaeology. After completing her PhD from Lund University in 1964, she taught at the University of Copenhagen and published many works about Icelandic sagas and Viking history."
tagline: "Icelandic archaeologist and historian (1924-2017)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/d5/%C3%93laf%C3%ADa_Einarsd%C3%B3ttir.jpg/330px-%C3%93laf%C3%ADa_Einarsd%C3%B3ttir.jpg"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1924-07-28"
deathDate: "2017-12-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           35.37
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.935637333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olafia_Einarsdottir"
    title: "Olafia Einarsdottir"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%A7_%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%B3%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "الافيا اينارسدوتير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%93laf%C3%ADa_Einarsd%C3%B3ttirov%C3%A1"
    title: "Ólafía Einarsdóttirová"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%93laf%C3%ADa_Einarsd%C3%B3ttir"
    title: "Ólafía Einarsdóttir"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%93laf%C3%ADa_Einarsd%C3%B3ttir"
    title: "Ólafía Einarsdóttir"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%93lafia_Einarsd%C3%B3ttir"
    title: "Ólafia Einarsdóttir"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%93laf%C3%ADa_Einarsd%C3%B3ttir"
    title: "Ólafía Einarsdóttir"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16420382"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump