Guðbrandur Vigfússon

Icelandic scholar (1827—1889).

Born March 13th, 1827 in Breiðafjörður.

Died January 31st, 1889 at 61 years old

Occupations
editor, linguist, literary historian, philologist, university teacher, writer

It is the secret of the world that all things subsist and do not die, but retire a little from sight and afterwards return again. Ralph Waldo Emerson