Már Jónsson

Már Jónsson (University of Iceland, Reykjavík) has written extensively on Árni Magnússon (1663-1730) and his intellectual network, and is now preparing a study of his friend and countryman, the historian Þormóður Torfason (1636-1719). Már has worked on the manuscript tradition of Icelandic and Norwegian medieval law and on scholarly debates regarding those texts in the nineteenth century, with emphasis on Konrad Maurer (1823-1902) and his collaborators as well as critics.