Sigurjón Pétursson

This is an Icelandic name. The last name is patronymic, not a family name; this person is referred to by the given name Sigurjón.

Sigurjón Pétursson
Born	(1888-03-09)9 March 1888 Reykjavík, Iceland
Died	3 May 1955(1955-05-03) (aged 67) 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 psychic research.[3]

Sigurjón believed 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]

References

1. "Sigurjón Pétursson". Olympedia. Retrieved 14 June 2021.
2. "Sigurjón Pétursson Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 22 May 2013.
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).