Pétur Þorsteinsson

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Pétur Þorsteinsson, priest of the Independent parish and neologist

Pétur Þorsteinsson (born May 5, 1955 in Borgarfjörður) is an Icelandic neologist, youth-leader and vicar of the Óháði Söfnuðurinn or Independent Parish, a Lutheran church. 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. He lives in Reykjavík

External links

Independent Parish
Examples from the Petrish-Icelandic dictionary (Pétrísk-Íslensk Orðabók)
High Icelandic language centre
Site about the Mountain child (Fjallbarnið), one of the projects Pétur Þorsteinsson is involved in

Persondata
Name	Petur Thorsteinsson
Alternative names
Short description	Neologist and Vicar
Date of birth	May 5, 1955
Place of birth	Borgarfjörður
Date of death
Place of death

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