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Jón Arason
1550Nov, 7

Jón Arason

Jón Arason, Icelandic bishop and poet (b. 1484)
Jón Arason (1484 – November 7, 1550) was an Icelandic Roman Catholic bishop and poet, who was executed in his struggle against the imposition of the Protestant Reformation in Iceland.

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