ID: 20354
Date of birth : 1920
Vilhjálmur Þ Bjarnar Photo: VÍÆ I
Vilhjálmur Þorláksson Bjarnar was born in Reykjavík on March 21, 1920.
Spouse: May 19, 1946 Halldóra Guðrún Erickson b. November 10, 1920 in Winnipeg.
Children: 1. Erik Thor b. January 26, 1958.
Vilhjálmur grew up in Reykjavík, became a student from MR in 1942 and studied in the Nordic department of UI 1943-47. In the years 1944-45 he worked on the publication Flateyjarbók. He moved to Minnesota in 1947 and completed his BA degree in 1956 and MA a year later. He was then employed as a librarian at the University of Minnesota library in 1957-60. Then he moved to New York and was hired as a librarian at the Icelandic Fiske Museum at Cornell University in Ithaca.