Sveinbjörn Beinteinsson at a blót in 1991

Sveinbjörn Beinteinsson ( July 4, 1924 – December 23, 1993 ), a native of Iceland, was instrumental in helping to gain recognition by the Icelandic government for the pre-Christian Norse religion.

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There are hundreds of these meters, counting variations ( Sveinbjörn Beinteinsson provides 450 variations in his Háttatal ), but they can be grouped in approximately ten families.

In the late twentieth century Sveinbjörn Beinteinsson was the best known rímur poet.

* Kvæðamennafélagið Iðunn Eponymous homepage of a society devoted to the revival of traditional Icelandic singing ; includes information in Icelandic on traditional performance styles, and an online edition of Bragfræði og Háttatal by Sveinbjörn Beinteinsson which catalogues the meters used by rímur poets, with examples performed by the author.

It included recordings by Sveinbjörn Beinteinsson.

Other important artists featured here are Bubbi Morthens with his band Egó, Fræbbblarnir, Grýlurnar, and the renowned Sveinbjörn Beinteinsson with his chanting poem “ Rímur ”, among others.

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The organization was led by farmer and poet Sveinbjörn Beinteinsson from 1972 until his death in 1993.

The four men who would become the organization's early leaders and ideologues were Sveinbjörn Beinteinsson, a farmer and a traditionalist poet, Jörmundur Ingi Hansen, a jack of all trades and a prominent person in the Reykjavík hippie movement, Dagur Þorleifsson, a journalist and active member of the Reykjavík theosophy lodge, and Þorsteinn Guðjónsson, leader of Félag Nýalssinna, an organization devoted to the theories of Helgi Pjeturss.

Sveinbjörn Beinteinsson described the founding of Ásatrúarfélagið as based on a belief in hidden forces in the land and connected to " the desire that Icelanders could have their own faith, and nourish it no less than imported religions ".

Shortly before Christmas 1972, Sveinbjörn Beinteinsson and Þorsteinn Guðjónsson visited Ólafur Jóhannesson, minister of justice and ecclesiastical affairs, and expressed interest in registering Ásatrúarfélagið as an official religious organization.

The same year, Sveinbjörn Beinteinsson published his autobiography.

Sveinbjörn Beinteinsson acted as allsherjargoði from 1972 until his death in December 1993.

In late 1993, Sveinbjörn Beinteinsson died and in 1994, elections were held for a new allsherjargoði.