Sigurður the Blind is a relatively obscure Icelandic poet, known as the author of

, a religious skaldic

consisting of 133 stanzas in the

metre which exists in two manuscripts from the sixteenth century, one of which written in the hand of Gísli Jónsson, later bishop of Skálholt (d. 1587); there it is attributed to “Sigurður blindur” without any explanation about who he was.

is a cosmological poem in the tradition of the famous fourteenth century poem

, but far less known. Unlike

, it includes the story of the virgin Mary’s parents, Saint Anne and Saint Joachim, following a fifteenth century trend. Preserved with

in manuscripts is another religious poem,

which also focuses on the virgin Mary, even more so than

and

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Citation: Jakobsson, Ármann. "Sigurðr the blind". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 21 January 2025 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=15169, accessed 21 February 2025.]