Ármann Jakobsson (born 18 July 1970) is an Icelandic author and scholar.

[1] Ármann holds a PhD from the University of Iceland, graduating in 2003.

[5] He has been nominated twice for the Icelandic literature prize,[6][7] and was on the IBBY honour list of 2016.

[11] As a medievalist scholar, Ármann has published extensively on Old Norse literature, focusing on medieval attitudes towards kingship as an institution, childhood and old age, masculinities, paranormal figures and concepts and most recently on disability in the Middle Ages.

[12][13][14] As a teenager, Ármann competed alongside his twin brother, Sverrir Jakobsson, in the quiz show Gettu betur, winning the competition in 1990.