Pétur Þorsteinsson

Born in Borgarfjörður on May 5, 1955. Icelandic neologist, youth-leader and vicar of the Óháði Söfnuðurinn or Independent Parish, a Lutheran church. He lives in Reykjavík with his daughter Ásta Pétursdóttir. 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.

External links

* [http://www.ohadisofnudurinn.is Independent Parish]
* [http://www.isholf.is/stjani/ordabok.htm Examples from the Petrish-Icelandic dictionary (Pétrísk-Íslensk Orðabók)]
* [http://www.hafronska.org High Icelandic language centre]
* [http://users.telenet.be/Hafronska/fjallbarn/ Site about the Mountain child (Fjallbarnið), one of the projects Pétur Þorsteinsson is involved in]