How to Pronounce Pétur Þorsteinsson
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May 05, 1955 69 years old
Neologist and Vicar
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About Pétur Þorsteinsson
- Pétur Þorsteinsson (born May 5, 1955 in Borgarfjörður) is an Icelandic neologist, youth-leader and vicar of the Óháði Söfnuðurinn or Independent Parish, a Lutheran church.
- He published the Pétrísk-Íslensk Orðabók (Petrish-Icelandic dictionary), a list of self-made neologisms that has received much attention in Iceland.
- In 2004 he became president of the High Icelandic Language Movement (Háfrónska málhreyfingin), a movement that endeavours to build a variant of Icelandic that is free of loan-words. He lives in Reykjavík.
