Kolbeinn Þorsteinsson

Kolbeinn was the son of Þorsteinn Kolbeinsson of Tungufelli and his wife, Guðrúnur Hallvarðsdóttir. He graduated from Skálholt School in 1750. He married Arndís, daughter of Reverend Jón Jónsson of Gilsbakki, and became assistant priest to his father-in-law at Gilsbakki in 1759. Kolbeinn then became priest in Miðdalur in 1765 and held that position until his death, dying of illness in 1783. Kolbeinn was an accomplished poet and a good Latinist. He translated Hallgrímur Pétursson's Passion Psalms into Latin and his translation was published in Copenhagen in 1778. (See PEÓl: Íslenzkar æviskrár III, pp. 367-368).