Gunnlaugr Leifsson
Icelandic scholar, author and poet / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This is an Icelandic name. The last name is patronymic, not a family name; this person is referred to by the given name Gunnlaugr .
Gunnlaugr Leifsson (died 1218 or 1219) was an Icelandic scholar, author and poet.[1] He was a Benedictine monk at the Þingeyraklaustur monastery (Icelandic Þingeyrarklaustur) in the north of Iceland.[2] Many sources (including Þorvalds þáttur víðförla) refer to him simply as Gunnlaugr munkr or Gunnlaugr the Monk.