Record ID:
35321906 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
Description conventions:
  • rda
LC number:
  • n 79021929
Heading:
Birth:
  • 1929-10-12
  • Reykjavik, Iceland
Death:
  • 2007-01-07
Associated with:
  • Scotland
Occupations:
  • Authors Broadcasters Translators
Used for:
  • Magnús Magnússon
  • Magnús Sigursteinsson
Notes:
  • Grœnlendinga þáttr. The Vinland sagas, 1965.
  • His Landið, sagan og sögurnar, 1987 t.p. (Magnús Magnússon) p. 6 (b. in Reykjavík, moved with his parents to Scotland when he was 9 months old & has lived there since; Icelandic citizen)
  • Wikipedia WWW site, Jan. 8, 2007 (Magnús Magnússon, KBE; b. Oct. 12, 1929, Reykjavík; d. Jan. 7, 2007; television presenter, journalist, translator, and writer, of Icelandic origin; never took British citizenship but lived in Scotland for nearly all his life; presenter for 25 years of the BBC television quiz programme Mastermind; under Icelandic naming conventions, his name would have been Magnús Sigursteinsson, but his family adopted Scottish naming conventions and used his father's last name)
  • WW, 1987 (Magnusson, Magnus; b. 10/12/29; MA (Oxon); writer & broadcaster)
Local system number:
  • (AuPaJTL)99627
  • 000000323557
  • abv00285768
  • (AuCNL)889697
Cataloguing source:
  • DLC eng DLC DLC OCoLC rda