Sigurður Breiðfjörð

Sigurður Breiðfjörð (4 March 1798 – 1846) was an Icelandic poet.

He learned cooperage for four years in Copenhagen and worked as a cooper in Iceland and Greenland.

He was a prolific and popular traditional poet, known for his rímur cycles.

Núma rímur is his best-known work.

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No pictures were made of Sigurður while he was alive but after his death Helgi Sigurðsson á Melum made a pencil drawing of him from memory.