The poet and naturalist Jónas Hallgrímsson is without a doubt one of Iceland’s most beloved poets (the one we can often admire on the 10,000 kroner banknote). He was born in 1807 at the Hraun farm in Öxnadalur and died of sepsis in Copenhagen at the age of just 38 in 1845. It is one of two […]
Source: Yle