Dag Strömbäck

Dag Strömbäck was born in Järbo församling, Sweden on 13 August 1900. He completed his studentexamen at Norra Latin in Stockholm, and subsequently studied at Uppsala University. At Uppsala, Strömbäck completed his B.A. in 1921, and his Ph.D. in 1935. Since 1941 he was a docent in Nordic languages at Uppsala. He also a docent in Icelandic philology at Lund University since 1935, and a visiting professor at the University of Chicago from 1937 to 1939. From 1940 to 1967 he was a senior official at the Institutet för språk och folkminnen. From 1948 to 1967, Strömbäck was Professor of Nordic and Comparative Ethnology at Uppsala University.

Strömbäck specialized in the study of Old Norse literature from a philological and ethnological perspective. He was a member of the Royal Gustavus Adolphus Academy and the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities.

Strömbäck retired from Uppsala University in 1977. He died in Helga Trefaldighets församling, Sweden on 1 December 1978.

• Sejd, 1935
• Leading Folklorists of the North, 1971
• The Conversion of Iceland, 1975

• Lily Weiser-Aall
• Otto Höfler
• Neil Price (archaeologist)