Jón Ólafsson from Grunnavík: cultivation of language in his early writings (1727–1737)

• Published in: Language & History
• Main Author: Tarsi M.
• Other Authors: Tarsi, M.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: country:GBR 2017
• Subjects: eighteenth-century linguistic; history of the Icelandic language; Icelandic; Language cultivation; language purism; Grunnavík; Iceland
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11572/297269; https://doi.org/10.1080/17597536.2018.1492807; https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17597536.2018.1492807

This article discusses Jón Ólafsson from Grunnavík (1705–1779), a prominent spokesperson for purism and language cultivation in eighteenth-century Iceland. Jón’s attitude towards his mother tongue is investigated here by discussing several representative texts that he wrote: his youthful translation...