When Hildur Arnadottir was born on 14 August 1842, in Vestur-Skaftafellssýsla, Southern, Iceland, her father, Arni Asgimsson, was 39 and her mother, Halldóra Ólafsdóttir, was 35. She married Jon Jonsson on 8 October 1875, in Langholt, Vestur-Skaftafellssýsla, Southern, Iceland. They were the parents of at least 7 sons. She died on 16 January 1933, at the age of 90.
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A new constitution is given to Iceland by the Danish King Christian IX.
In Iceland a nationalist movement re-established the Althing.
Iceland won home rule.
English (Sussex and Kent): topographic name for a dweller on a slope, from an agent derivative of Middle English hilde ‘slope’ (Old English hylde). Compare Heald .
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