Björn M. Ólsen

That was the year Iceland achieved home rule, and it is likely that increasing national scholarship in these areas seemed like a duty.

He was a member of the Alþingi under the King of Denmark from 1905 to 1908, representing the Home Rule Party[3] in the government of Hannes Hafstein.

He was an honorary member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters and other learned societies.

[5] He also wrote two articles positing Icelandic origins for the Eddic poems, "Hvar eru Eddu-kvæðin til orðin?"

and "Svar til dis Finns Jónssonar", and studies of the conversion of Iceland and its submission to the Norwegian king.