Carl Christian Rafn

His scholarship to a large extent focused on translation of Old Norse literature and related Northern European ancient history.

[1][2][3] Carl Christian Rafn was born in Brahesborg on the island of Fyn in Funen County, Denmark.

After having been employed as a lieutenant with the Funen light dragoons in Odense, in 1820, he became a teacher in Latin and grammar at the Army Cadet Academy (Landkadetakademiet) in Copenhagen.

Together with Icelandic scholar Finnur Magnússon and Danish linguist Rasmus Rask, he founded the Royal Norse Ancient Writings Society (Det Kongelige nordiske Oldskriftselskab).

The ideas advanced by Rafn found new support since the 1960s with the discovery of the Norse settlement at L'Anse aux Meadows in northern Newfoundland, Canada.