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Þórarinn Kristjánsson

Icelandic footballer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 14, 2025
Entity authorityQ8079569 ↗
Source-derived summary

Þórarinn Brynjar Kristjánsson (born 30 December 1980) is an Icelandic professional football player. He played three times for Aberdeen in the 2004–05 Scottish Premier League season. He retired in 2010 and has not played since.

Editorial summary

“Þórarinn Kristjánsson” enters the record as icelandic footballer. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Þórarinn, Kristjánsson and Icelandic can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1980, 2004, 2010—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1980-12-30. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Þórarinn, Kristjánsson and Icelandic.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Þórarinn Kristjánsson” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Þórarinn, Kristjánsson and Icelandic provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 14, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q8079569. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1980, 2004 and 2010.

Critical limits

Later biographies can compress uncertainty and repeat inherited reputations, so apparently settled claims may still require comparison. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

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  • Establishing names and roles
  • Building a first chronology
  • Locating cited institutions
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Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Þórarinn Kristjánsson”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Þórarinn Kristjánsson primary sources, Þórarinn Kristjánsson archive and Þórarinn research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

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  2. Which primary records establish identity, chronology and institutional ties?
  3. Which claims depend on a single source or contested interpretation?
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This entry incorporates text from “Þórarinn Kristjánsson” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.