Davíð Stefánsson

Davíð Stefánsson (21 January 1895 – 1 March 1964) was an Icelandic poet and novelist, best known for his ten volumes of poetry.

[2] Davíð came of a cultured yeoman family and was brought up with a love for his homeland, its literature, and its folklore.

In 1926, he wrote Munkarnir á Möðruvöllum ("The Monks of Möðruvellir") and in 1941, the powerful novel Sólon Islandus (I - II), a novel about Sölvi Helgason, a daydreaming 19th-century vagabond whose intellectual ambitions are smothered by society.

Davíð's early poetry, including most of his folk themes and love lyrics, appeared in: They were combined and published as a collected volume in 1930.

His later poetry—darkening in social satire, reformatory zeal against capitalism and organized religion, and despair over the war—was published as: