ARASON, JON (1484-1551)

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ARASON, JON (1484-1551) , Icelandic

bishop

and poet, became a priest about 1504, and having attracted the notice of Gottskalk,

bishop

of Holar, was sent by that

prelate

PRELATE (Lat. praelatus, set above, from praefero, prefer)

on two

missions

MISSIONS (Lat. missio, a sending)

to Norway. In 1522 he succeeded Gottskalk in the see of Holar, but he was soon driven out by the other Icelandic bishop, Ogmund of Skalholt. His

exile

EXILE (Lat. exsilium or exilium, from exsul or exul, which is derived from ex, out of, and the root sal, to go, seen in salire, to leap,
consul
- CONSUL
- CONSUL (in Gr. generally ihraros,ashortened form of errpavgybs 8hraeos, i.e. praetor maximus)
, &c.; the connexion with solum, soil, country is now generally considered wrong)

, however, was brief, and some years after his return he became involved in a dispute with his sovereign,

Christian

CHRISTIAN
CHRISTIAN, WILLIAM (1608-1663)

III., king of Denmark, because he refused to further the progress of Lutheranism in the

island

land
- LAND
_.html">ISLAND (O.E. ieg =isle, +
land
- LAND
')

. Then in 1548, when a large number of the islanders had accepted the reformed doctrines, Arason and Ogmund joined their forces and attacked the

Lutherans

LUTHERANS

. Civil war broke out, and in 1551 the bishop of Holar and two of his sons were captured and executed. Arason, who was the last Roman Catholic bishop in Iceland, is celebrated as a poet, and as the man who introduced printing into the

island

ISLAND (O.E. ieg =isle, +land')

.

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