Sigurjón Pétursson Explained

Sigurjón Pétursson
Birth Date:	9 March 1888
Birth Place:	Reykjavík, Iceland
Death Place:	Reykjavík, Iceland

Sigurjón Pétursson (9 March 1888  - 3 May 1955) was an Icelandic wrestler.^[1] He competed in the light heavyweight event at the 1912 Summer Olympics.^[2]

Sigurjón later became an industrialist: by 1946 he was the owner of a textile factory at Álafoss just outside Reykjavik. He also took a keen interest in Icelandic culture and in psychic research.^[3]

Sigurjón believed that he experienced telepathic communication with, amongst other dead Icelanders, the nineteenth-century Icelandic poet Jónas Hallgrímsson. He concluded that the remains of Jónas should be brought from Denmark, where he died, to his birthplace in Iceland. This debate over this scheme is known in Icelandic as the beinamálið ('bones question').^[4]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Sigurjón Pétursson . Olympedia . 14 June 2021.
2. Web site: Sigurjón Pétursson Olympic Results . https://web.archive.org/web/20200418122358/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/pe/sigurjon-petursson-1.html . dead . 18 April 2020 . 22 May 2013 . sports-reference.com.
3. Jón Karl Helgason, 'A Poet’s Great Return: Jónas Hallgrímsson’s Reburial and Milan Kundera’s Ignorance', Scandinavian-Canadian Studies/Études scandinaves au Canada, 20 (2011), 52-61 http://scancan.net/article.pdf?id=helgason_1_20 (PDF), http://scancan.net/article.htm?id=helgason_1_20 (XHTML).
4. Jón Karl Helgason, 'A Poet’s Great Return: Jónas Hallgrímsson’s Reburial and Milan Kundera’s Ignorance', Scandinavian-Canadian Studies/Études scandinaves au Canada, 20 (2011), 52-61, http://scancan.net/article.pdf?id=helgason_1_20 (PDF), http://scancan.net/article.htm?id=helgason_1_20 (XHTML).