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SUMMARY
A long forgotten work of art pops up:
An Unknown Poem by Hallgrímur Péturs son
Keywords: Hallgrímur Pétursson, funeral poems, early modern poetry, literary
canon, attributing authorship, philology.
In the manuscript section at Uppsala University Library (Carolina Rediviva),
a manuscript is pre served (shelfmark Ihre 77) containing transcriptions of Old
Norse poems and related material. The manuscript is in the hand of an Icelander,
Jón Rúgmann (1636–1679), who was a translator and scribe at Uppsala University
from 1662 until his death in 1679. In addition to this material, Rúgmann copied
three poems of a different kind, all by contemporary poets. First, there is a funeral
poem about Gísli Hákonarson (d. 1631) of Bræðratunga, one of Iceland’s most
powerful sheriffs, attributed to the Reverend Magnús Sigfússon (d. 1663) from
Höskuldsstaðir in northern Iceland. The second poem is a funeral poem about
Gísli Hákonarson’s son, Vigfús Gíslason (d. 1647), a sheriff of Stórólfshvoll in the
South; this is attributed to the Reverend Hallgrímur Pétursson. The third is a well-
known poem of wisdom by Hallgrímur. The two funeral poems have never been
printed. The first one is also preserved in two other manu scripts in the National
Library of Iceland, but the second is not known from other sources. The discovery
of this poem is quite remarkable, since Hallgrímur Pétursson has been considered
the great poet of Icelandic literature from the Early Modern period. His renowned
Passion Hymns (Passíusálmar) have been printed at regular intervals since 1666
and his collected poems have been printed several times since the year 1755, which
is unusual for Icelandic poets of this period.
In this article Hallgrímur Pétursson’s funeral poem is compared to his other
poems within this genre, demonstrating that it is a rather untraditional funeral
poem. It is, however, in a style similar to the much appreciated poem he wrote on
the death of his three-year-old daughter, which has been considered to be unique
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