Sveinbjörn Beinteinsson

Sveinbjörn Beinteinsson

Sveinbjörn Beinteinsson (July 4, 1924 – December 23, 1993) [Jónína K. Berg, "Sveinbjörn Beinteinsson skáld og allsherjargoði frá Draghálsi" from "Vor Siður" No 5 2004, pages 5-6. ] , a native of Iceland, was instrumental in helping to gain recognition by the Icelandic government for the pre-Christian Norse religion. The Íslenska Ásatrúarfélagið ("Icelandic fellowship of Æsir faith"), which he founded, and for which he acted as "goði" (priest), was officially recognised as a religious body in 1972.

Sveinbjörn lived his entire life in West Iceland. From 1944 on, he was a sheep farmer while also pursuing literary interests on the side. He published a book of rímur in 1945, a textbook on the verse forms of rímur in 1953, two volumes of his own verse in 1957 and 1976, and edited several anthologies.

Sveinbjörn was regarded with much respect and affection amongst Ásatrú. Not only was he a well known rímur singer, or "kvæðamaður", in Iceland, he also gained an audience and followers in Europe and North America. He sometimes performed at rock concerts and is the opening act in the film Rokk í Reykjavík, directed by Friðrik Þór Friðriksson. Sveinbjörn can be heard performing Ásatrú marriage rites for Genesis and Paula P-Orridge (now Alaura O'Dell) on Psychic TV's LP "Live in Reykjavik" and on the double LP entitled "Those who do not". Additionally, former Psychic TV member David Tibet (né David Michael Bunting) released a CD of Sveinbjörn performing his own rímur and reciting the traditional Poetic Edda under the title "Current 93 presents Sveinbjörn 'Edda"' in two editions through the now defunct record company World Serpent Distribution.

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* [http://www.rimur.is/?i=4 Háttatal] In Icelandic, but probably the best modern introduction to the metrics of Rímur.
* [http://geocities.com/odinistlibrary/OLArticles/Articles/Sveinbjorn.htm In memory of Sveinbjörn Beinteinsson]
* [http://www.angelfire.com/nm/seidhman/beinweb.html Interview]


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