sentences:  Magnús Eiríksson was born the eldest of the five children of Eiríkur Grímsson († 1812), a farmer, and Þorbjörg Stephánsdóttir († 1841), a pastor's daughter, in Skinnalón, Norður-Þingeyjarsýsla, on the northeastern tip of Iceland.In 1831, he left for Copenhagen to take the university entrance examination.He then remained in Copenhagen until his death in 1881.