Brynjólfur Sveinsson

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Brynjólfur Sveinsson (1605–1675) served as the Lutheran Bishop of the village Skálholt in the south of Iceland. He is currently pictured on the Icelandic 1000 krónur bill. In 1643 he named the collection of Old Norse mythological and heroic poems Edda.

Brynjólfur attributed the manuscript to Sæmundr fróði, but the scholarly consensus is that whoever wrote the Eddic poems, whether in the sense of being the compiler or the poet, it could not have been Sæmundr. It is believed that the manuscript has multiple authorship from over a long span of time.

He is also, if lesser, known for his role in the life of the poet and hymn writer Hallgrímur Pétursson.

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