Hey, remember when I asked you players to write little updates/obits for your hits? Well, only a couple of you are doing it. WEP is. Bless his heart. He deserves the points. He deserves more points. There's an idea. Next year, you get more points if you write the update. Must discuss with the guys.

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Who was Kristján Davíðsson?

He was a painter, but not just one painter. He was the pioneer of abstract art, topic of numerous exhibitions of modernist painting and winner of various awards —

— in Iceland.

His biography can be summarized as the following: Kristján Davíðsson studied art in Pennsylvania and in Paris in the 1940s and started a very productive life for abstract painting. He was born in 1917 and was married twice, first to Valgerði Ólafsdóttur and then to Svanhildur Marta Björnsdótt. He had a son, Björn Davíð Kristjánsson, and two daughters, Ásthildi and Silju Kristjánsdottir. He had a stepdotter, Svanhildur, as well.

Davíðsson's honours, such as the heiðurslaun listamanna in 1988 and the íslensku fálkaorðu in 1998, made him popular, as did being chosen the útnefndur borgarlistamaður Reykjavíkur in 2001. During his final years, several nordic art galleries honoured Davíðsson with special exhibitions. That's a strong biography, even in a nearly unpopulated country where people adress themselves by first name and have no family name, just "Paulson" or "Paulsdottir."

But let's face it: For Icelanders, Kristján Davíðsson, whose name is pronounced correctly as "Kristjaoun Dawithsson" and means "Kristján, son of Davíð," had been quite a big number.

But to most non-Icelanders, he was just an old painter with an ineffable name — except for Team WEP, who received 7 points for him.

Hvíl í friði.

— WEP