[1] The daughter of Sigurður Sigurðsson and Stefanía Guðnadóttir, she was born in Hælavík on the Hornstrandir peninsula and grew up there.
[2][1] In 1959, she published her first children's book Sagan af Snæbjörtu Eldsdóttur og Ketilríði Kotungsdóttur.
Jórunn Viðar; composed Vökuró ("Vigil") later performed by Björk.
[4] Jórunn Viðar also composed a song to the poem Vorljóð á Ýli.
Then Bjarni Frímann Bjarnason and Guðmundur Óskar Guðmundsson wrote a song to the Christmas poem Jólakvæði in 2013.