Árni Björnsson
Árni Björnsson (born January 16, 1932) is an Icelandic ethnographer. He was the director of the ethnography department of the National Museum of Iceland from 1969 to 2002. He is best known for his writings on Icelandic festivals and holidays and the customs and folk beliefs associated with them. His best-known work is probably Saga daganna (The Story of Days) (1977), which is also his doctoral thesis, which he defended in 1993.
On the occasion of Árni's 85th birthday in 2017, a large collection of his articles was published in a book entitled Í hálfkæringi og alvöru (Lighthearted and Serious). It includes sections on scholarship, poetry, cultural history, world affairs and peculiar people. Much of his work has not been translated into English.
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