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5 unusual facts about Jón Ólafsson


Basque-Icelandic pidgin

The copy which is preserved of Vocabula Biscaica was written by Jón Ólafsson from Grunnavík, who copied an older but now lost original.

Cipher runes

The most notable of these is the manuscript Runologia by Jón Ólafsson (1705–79), which he wrote in Copenhagen (1732–52).

Hannes Hólmsteinn Gissurarson

In the 1990s, Hannes Hólmsteinn Gissurarson was a vocal critic of an Icelandic businessman, Jón Ólafsson, chief owner of the private television channel, Stöð tvö.

Icelandic American

Journalist Jón Ólafsson, one of the first Icelanders to emigrate to the United States, was renowned for his attempt to establish a community for Icelandic American political dissidents on Kodiak Island in Alaska via petition to Ulysses S. Grant.

Jón Ólafsson

Jon Axel Olafsson, Icelandic radio personality, producer and manager



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