Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Hjálmar Jónsson (29 September 1796 – 25 July 1875), better known as Bólu-Hjálmar (after his homestead in Bóla), was a 19th-century Icelandic farmer and poet, known for his sharp style and biting wit and for his mastery of the short Icelandic poetic narrative style known as Rímur.Hjálmar was born in Hallandi in Eyjafjörður. Born out of wedlock to a servant girl and a farmhand, Jónsson had little formal education, but he soon became an avid reader of the Sagas and Eddas.. }
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- Bólu-Hjálmar comment "Hjálmar Jónsson (29 September 1796 – 25 July 1875), better known as Bólu-Hjálmar (after his homestead in Bóla), was a 19th-century Icelandic farmer and poet, known for his sharp style and biting wit and for his mastery of the short Icelandic poetic narrative style known as Rímur.Hjálmar was born in Hallandi in Eyjafjörður. Born out of wedlock to a servant girl and a farmhand, Jónsson had little formal education, but he soon became an avid reader of the Sagas and Eddas.".