thumb|right|A portrait of Guðbrandur Vigfússon by [[Sigurður málari.]]

Guðbrandur Vigfússon, known in English as Gudbrand Vigfusson, (13 March 1827 – 31 January 1889) was one of the foremost Scandinavian scholars of the 19th century.

Life

He was born into an Icelandic family in Breiðafjörður. He was brought up, until he went to a tutor's, by his kinswoman Kristín Vigfússdóttir, to whom, he records, he owed not only that he became a man of letters but almost everything. He was sent to the old school at Bessastaðir and (when it moved there) at Reykjavík. In 1849, already a fair scholar, he came to Copenhagen University in the Regense College,

References

  • The grave of Guðbrandur Vigfússon in St Sepulchre's Cemetery, Oxford, with biography
  • An Icelandic-English Dictionary by Richard Cleasby and Gudbrand Vigfusson, published in 1874.