Erlendur Guðmundsson í Unuhúsi (born May 31, 1892 in Mjóstræti, Reykjavik; died February 13, 1947) was an Icelandic intellectual.
[1] Erlendur's father was Guðmundur Jónsson from Brún in Svartárdalur in Húnavatnssýsla, and his mother was Una Gísladóttir, born in Stóru-Giljá in Húnaþing.
[4] Young poets and artists as well as a number of others stayed there, including Stefán frá Hvítadal, Steinn Steinarr, Halldór Laxness, Þórbergur Þórðarson, Louisa Matthíasdóttir and Nína Tryggvadóttir.
[6] One could go so far as to say that Þórbergur owed Erlendur and Una his life, because in the rigningasumarið mikla ('great rainy summer') of 1920, Þorbergur nearly starved, and they took him in.
Stefán frá Hvítadal said that Erlendur had always been the first person he showed a new poem to and that he trusted his judgment on literary material better than the opinion of others.