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Einar Ólafur Sveinsson
Einar Ólafur Sveinsson, often abbreviated Einar Ól. Sveinsson (12 December 1899 – 18 April 1984) was an Icelandic scholar of Old Norse literature who was Professor of Icelandic Literature at the University of Iceland. His writings on and editions of sagas were particularly influential.
==Life and career==
Einar Ólafur was born in Mýrdalur, where his father, Sveinn Ólafsson, was a farmer and smith.〔Vésteinn Ólason, "Einar Ólafur Sveinsson", ''Andvari'' 124 (1999) 13–63, p. 13 〕〔Robert E. Kaske, Otto Springer and Theodore M. Andersson, "Einar Ólafur Sveinsson", in ("Memoirs of Fellows and Corresponding Fellows of the Medieval Academy of America" ), ''Speculum'' 60 (1985) 768–77, pp. 776–77, p. 776.〕〔("Prófessor Einar Ól. Sveinsson látinn" ), ''Morgunblaðið'', 19 April 1984, p. 1 〕 His mother was Vilborg Einarsdóttir, and he had two older brothers.〔Vésteinn Ólason, p. 14.〕 He became a student at the University of Copenhagen in 1918, but earned his master's degree only in 1928, after a severe bout of tuberculosis, with a thesis on trolls in the folklore of Iceland and Norway.〔〔Vésteinn Ólason, p. 16.〕 He received his Ph.D. in 1933 from the University of Iceland with a thesis on ''Njáls saga'', ''Um Njálu''.〔〔
He worked initially at the National Library of Iceland while teaching Icelandic, then became librarian of the Faculty of Arts at the university.〔 From 1940 (the year it was formally established) to 1945 he was head of the university library, now combined with the national library as the National and University Library of Iceland. From 1945 to 1962, he was Professor of Icelandic Literature,〔According to Kaske, Springer and Andersson, p. 776, until 1971.〕 during much of which time he was on the governing body of the university.〔 From November 1962 through 1970 he headed the Manuscript Institute of Iceland, now the Arnemagnaean Manuscript Institute.〔〔According to Kaske, Springer and Andersson, p. 777, he held this position simultaneously from 1969 to 1971.〕 He also had several outside duties; for example, he was on the governing board of the Icelandic Literary Society from 1952, edited its magazine, ''Skírnir'', from 1944 to 1953, and was its president from 1962 to 1967.〔Vésteinn Ólason, p. 25.〕 He died after a long illness on 18 April 1984.〔
He married Kristjana Þorsteinsdóttir in 1930;〔 their son Sveinn was born in 1934.〔Vésteinn Ólason, p. 20.〕 She died in 1981.〔Vésteinn Ólason, p. 60.〕
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