Stephan G. Stephansson

Stefán Guðmundsson was born on 3 October 1853 in Skagafjörður, the son of Guðmundur Stefánsson and Guðbjörg Hannesdóttir, poor farmers. In 1873 he emigrated with his family to the United States, where the authorities registered the name Stephansson; in 1878 he married his cousin Helga Sigríður Jónsdóttir in Wisconsin, worked on farms and on railway construction sites, then settled in 1889 near Markerville, in Alberta. A freethinker and a pacifist opposed to the war of 1914, he made a four-month tour of Iceland in 1917 and died near Markerville on 10 August 1927.

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• PoetryAndvökurStephan G. Stephansson · 1909not translated into EnglishLiteraturePublic domain