Halldór Hermannsson. Eggert Ólafsson, A Biographical Sketch. Islandica; an annual relating to Iceland and the Fiske Icelandic collection in Cornell university library, vol. 16. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell university library, 1925.
There is a short, helpful biography of Eggert in Jónas Hallgrímsson, 'Selected Poetry and Prose', <http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/Jonas>, tr. and ed. Dick Ringler (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin–Madison General Library System, 1999), specifically at .
