Sigurður Breiðfjörð was an Icelandic poet. He learned cooperage for four years in Copenhagen and worked as a cooper in Iceland and Greenland. He was a prolific and popular traditional poet, known for his rímur cycles. Núma rímur is his best-known work.
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Writers born in the 1790s 6
About this person
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1798 to 1846 · aged 48
Written about in
9 languages
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