Tryggvi J. Oleson

Professor TRYGGVI J. OLESON (1912–1963) of the University of Manitoba was the foremost authority on Canada’s early Arctic history. Of Icelandic descent, Professor Oleson was born in Glenboro, Manitoba, and received his B.A. and M.A. at the University of Manitoba and his doctorate at the University of Toronto. A fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a former Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow, Professor Oleson published many articles in Canadian and British historical journals on the subject of Arctic history. He was the author of The Witanegemot in the Reign of Edward the Confessor and co-author and editor of Saga Islendinga I Vesturheimi (“History of the Icelanders in the Western Hemisphere”).