ID: 20389
Born west
Date of birth : 1922
Date of death : 1998
Árni Jakobsson Photo: Hnausa Reflections
Árni Jakobsson was born on November 17, 1922 in the Hnausa settlement. He died on March 11, 1998. He had the name Arni Guðjonsson in the west.
Unmarried.
Childless.
Árni was the son of Jakob Guðjónsson and Guðrún Sigríður Jónsdóttir in the Hnausa settlement. He grew up in the settlement and attended school there. After that, he got a job with Magnús Magnússon, a shipowner in the Hnausa settlement. He was in the Canadian Army during the Second World War and returned to fishing after that. Then he started a mink farm and ran it for years together with Kristinn, his brother.