Árni Böðvarsson

He was largely privately educated, took his school-leaving examination at Menntaskólinn í Reykjavík in 1945, and then studied at the University of Iceland, where he earned a cand.mag.

He also worked for many years for the national broadcaster, RÚV, producing a segment titled Daglegt mál (Daily Word) for several years, acting as its first language consultant from 1984, and editing the in-house publication on language, Tungutaks.

Árni oversaw publication with Bjarni Vilhjálmsson of the 1954–61 edition in six volumes of the Íslenzkar Þjóðsögur og Æfintýri collected by Jón Árnason.

Árni was a member of the Universal Esperanto Association for several decades and a delegate specializing in linguistics.

He edited the 1965 Íslenzk-Esperanto orđabók / Islanda-Esperanta vortaro (Icelandic-Esperanto Dictionary) compiled by Baldvin B. Skaftfell and wrote a pamphlet in Esperanto on Icelandic grammar.