Hansína Regína Björnsdóttir

Hansína Regína Björnsdóttir (6 June 1884 – 5 February 1973) was an Icelandic photographer, whose main body of works were signed with the name H. Eiríksson.

Hansína Regína Björnsdóttir was born on 6 June 1884 in Eskifjörður, Iceland to Susanna Sophie (née Weywadt) and Björn Eiríksson.

Jonatan had been taken by his mistress Henrietta Catharina Schimmelmann to Copenhagen and, after losing a lawsuit to gain his freedom, became runaway slave, fleeing to Iceland.

Jonatan is the first known immigrant in Iceland of African descent[3] and his marriage with Katrín Antoníusdóttir produced two children, Lúðvík Stefán and Hansína Regína,[4] who would marry Eiríkur Eiríksson.

[5] When she was four years old, Hansína went to live with her mother Susanna's sister, Nicoline Weywadt on the family homestead Teigarhorn, near Djúpivogur.