He was born in Häsleby parish in Jönköping County, to the pastor Nicolaus Petri and his wife, Botilda Olofsdotter, but adopted the surname Verelius in his youth. He studied at Dorpat (now Tartu, Estonia) in 1633 and See more

The Icelandic student Jón Rúgman Jónsson, who had been intending to study in Copenhagen but ended up in Sweden, had brought a number of saga texts to Uppsala; he had copied them as leisure reading. With his uncredited assistance in translation, in 1664 … See more

• Claes Annerstedt. "Schefferus och Verelius, en litterär fejd i sjuttonde seklet". In Ur några antecknares samlingar: gärd af tacksamhet och vänskap till mästaren i svensk bokkunskap … See more

Verelius is counted the founder of the Hyperborean School in Swedish scholarship, which took the view that the Goths of Gotland were the people referred to as Hyperboreans in Greek literature; this gave rise to Gothicism and Verelius' student Rudbeck became its … See more

• MyNDIR (My Norse Digital Image repository) illustration by Olaus Verelius from his work ‪Gothrici & Rolfi Westrogothiae … See more