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Arason, Jón

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Arason, Jón (1484-1550)

Icelandic priest, bishop of the northern diocese in Iceland. He introduced printing there, about 1530, and vigorously opposed the Lutheran Reformation which the Danish king Christian III was forcing upon the country. Because of his resistance he was outlawed, arrested, and beheaded with which opposition to the Reformation effectively ended.

Arason was also a poet with both devotional and secular works ascribed to him.



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